DISCUSSION DEC -Dave Arch- In an attempt to help magic club members
MAGIC meaningfully connect with each other, I’ve created
MENTORING (with the help of my friend Steve Nespor) The Magic Club Discussion Deck. I wanted a deck of Showmanship For Magicians question cards Curriculum where the newest by Dave Arch member of the club could sit down with the most veteran member of the club and have a meaningful conversation around a topic related to magic. Just print the following cards on colored paper card stock, cut the cards apart and you might want to try it out with your members at an upcoming meeting. The document is in MSWord so you can if you wish add to the deck with questions of your own choosing - using the blank cards included in the template. By the way if you choose to add to the deck, using the formula “If you could REALLY (any power a magician seeks to emulate), what would be the most/least enjoyable aspect of possessing that power?” will give you many scenarios to incorporate with the additional cards. Here are some ideas for its use in your club meetings K
• In every instance I would encourage you to have your members select the question card they wish to address from FACE UP cards to ensure they have a question which they feel comfortable addressing • Unless you have a magic club with seven or less members in attendance, I would encourage you to break the attenders into multiple teams to ensure the feeling of comfortableness among even your most introverted members and to set up some variety in the use of the cards each time you bring them out for a meeting. Ideas for variety in use follow • Have each member of the group create a partnership with another member of the group and each select a card – giving them three minutes each to address the question they selected. This time limit is important (whatever you decide the time limit to be) in order to keep your more talkative from dominating • Have a small group of people each select a card and share their answer with the rest of the small group • Have a small group of people decide on one card and have everyone in the circle share their answer to that one card • When using the above idea, you might consider having small groups go visit another group and share some of their answers
CONCENTRIC CIRCLE SHARIN
Here the entire group each selects a question card from a single face up deck. Then the group stands up and forms two concentric circles with the inner circle facing outward and the outer circle facing inward – realizing if you have an odd number of people you might need to enter the activity (or not) so that each person is standing an facing another person In both rounds, each member of the inner circle remains in place and the outer circle moves one person to the right at the signal of the facilitator – spending time discussing (not merely interviewing) the question selected by the person from the inner circle Upon signal from the facilitator, the outside circle moves one person to the right, and a new question from the inner circle member engages the people now facing each other After the outer circle has completed their rotation and each person is now back facing the person with whom they started, the circles switch places for the second round and the new outer circle moves around the inner circle one person at a time (just as before) now discussing the question of the new person they’re facing from the inner circle _________________
I hope you nd these cards helpful in creating a greater sense of connectedness
between your club members Please feel free to share these templates with anyone else who you believe might bene t from their use
Dave Arc Magic Club Leaders Blogge https://magicclubleaders.com P.S. The water droplet motif was selected for the cards as a reminder of the fact that water to plants is a metaphor for connectedness among members to the healthy growth of a magic club.
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trick(s) you remember what is one “trick” you would for sure do? Why??
What are a couple of reasons Besides magic what are one
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Has YouTube helped or has it What are a couple of
hurt magic? Why? components among the top ve that make a magic club strong or weak? Why those?
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What would be the least With which living magician
enjoyable part of REALLY would you most enjoy having being able to read minds? a conversation? What would the topic be? Why?
Do you learn magic best from
Does exposing magic secrets reading books rather than help or hurt magic? Why? watching videos? Why??
If you could only perform one
Who to you is the greatest magic trick for the rest of your magician from the past? life, which one would it be? Why?
What is one of the most If you had to choose, is
memorable magic tricks you presentation more important remember seeing? Why do than the mechanics in an you think that is?? effective magic performance or the other way around?
What’s your favorite big What would you enjoy the
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In imagining your greatest
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