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Staff, Pray, Love: The Guide to Relationship Building During Birthright Shoshana Gibbor - MIT/Wellesley IACT Featuring Kylie Fisher - IACT Emeritus
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Page 1: Staffing experience iact training presentation summer 2013

Staff, Pray, Love: The Guide to Relationship Building

During Birthright

Shoshana Gibbor - MIT/Wellesley IACT

Featuring Kylie Fisher - IACT Emeritus

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#1: When does the trip start?

On campus? At the airport? In Israel?

If leveraged correctly, Taglit is not just a “trip,”

but an enduring journey. This journey starts

on campus, and hopefully never ends!

From recruitment, to registration, to eligibility

interviews... orientations, late-night Q&A

sessions, and beyond... every piece of the

process is a step in building a

relationship with the potential

participants.

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Claiming the Itinerary

● The trip provider is your partner!

○ bolstering this relationship is key.

● Make sure to put in requests early, and take

into account that they know what works and

what doesn’t work....

○ We may think we know better at times -

but don’t let them know that!

○ This is what they do best so sometimes

you have to just go with it.

● However, that being said, you know what

will/won’t work for your campus. Speak up!

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Prepare Them...Prepare

Yourself. Preparing the Students

● As previously mentioned, relationship building

starts before the airport.

● Preparing the students makes them more

comfortable and confident at the outset of the trip,

and will build their trust in your leadership and

responsibility capabilities.

Preparing Yourself

● You’re not just a babysitter, you’re an educator.

○ Prepare yourself on a few sites you can lead,

a few bus discussions, and a few “shpiels” that

are memorable.

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Building Bus Culture

● Leveraging the Israeli mifgash

○ Hebrew Word of the Day

● Nobody is “too cool”

○ including you!

● Inside jokes, songs, etc.

● Those special touches...

○ going beyond the requirements

○ letting the students shine

● You’re a “mishpucheh!”Matsav Kapit, literally a "teaspoon situation": when you're

too silly to keep your ish together (in a figurative sense

[thankfully]).

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Planting the Seed

● They’re inspired by Sde Boker?

○ Bring in someone from the Arava Institute.

● They’re obsessed with falafel and hummus?

○ Why not hold an Israeli cooking class?

● They want to delve into Middle Eastern politics?

○ Run an Israel chevruta session, or bring in a political

lecture.

● They’re an English major?

○ Back on campus, give them a collection of Amos Oz,

A.B. Yehoshua, and David Grossman novels.

The possibilities are endless! Use interests you learn

about during the trip as building blocks for a

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Secret Sauce

● Build bonding relationships with the group and

individuals.

● Be GENUINE...Be Yourself...know that you are

“always on” when staffing and use it to your

advantage.

○ The participants will model your attitudes &

behaviors while on the trip - you are a role

model, act like one.

● Work with your co-staff and Israeli guide, the

better the staff dynamic, the stronger the group

dynamic will become.

● Be Flexible

○ Inhale, Exhale, Caffeinate, Repeat!!!

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Utilize IACT ResourcesReturning Coordinators: What do YOU

bring?

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Hypothetical #1 (3 minutes)

You are three days into the trip. You notice that Aaron has

been very quiet, and while he seems like he is enjoying

the trip, hasn’t made any real connections with anyone

else.

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Hypothetical #2 (3 minutes)

It’s halfway through the trip. Kate and Rachel are showing

themselves as “Birthright Naysayers.” According to them,

the trip is propaganda, it’s only showing one side, and

it’s a big brainwashing tool.

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Hypothetical #3 (3 minutes)

The trip is coming to an end. It’s been an amazing journey

filled with happiness, laughter, and tears.

The participants have come together as one, and you hear

the back of the bus talking about planning a reunion back

on campus.


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