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Practicing the Collaborative Process

Handout 1: Dream House Discussion Guide

Instructions
Use the questions below to talk about the experience of designing a dream house. Your small group has 20 minutes to complete the exercise.

1. What was the most challenging part of the dream house exercise?
    
    
    
    
    
   
2. How does the dream house you first thought of compare to the group's version?
    
    
    
    
    
   
3. What do you think about your group's dream house?
    
    
    
    
    
   
4. What did you notice about your behaviors, or the behaviors of group members during the exercise? Describe specific behaviors that helped or hindered the exercise, such as eye contact, body language, leadership (or lack of it), creativity, and motivation.
    
    
    
    
    
   
5. What might have helped your group work better? What was missing? What was needed?
    
    
    
    
    
   

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