GenoPro: A practical solution for planners
Ice breaker
Do you need a good activity to get everyone involved at your event? If you
are organizing a professional development workshop, a diversity training
session, a team building seminar or a family retreat, GenoPro has a solution
for you. As an event planner, your goal is to warm the participants up to
one another and make the event a success. The best way to do this is to get
all your participants to share significant personal experiences by bringing
in their family genogram.
Prior to your event, send your participants the link to GenoPro where they
can download a free trial-version of the program. Give them the task to
create a three-generation genogram of their family, or an organizational
chart of their workplace, adding in social and emotional relationships. This
should only take about 20-30 minutes, as GenoPro is very user-friendly.
At the beginning of your event, separate the participants into small groups
and get them to present their genograms to one another, sharing stories
about family or colleagues. You can give them themes to discuss such as
their ethnic heritage, rites of passage, or their career goals; the
possibilities are endless. Watch as participants become eager to share
details of their own imperfect family with others, and see how quickly
barriers are broken, laughter erupts, and bonds are created. By creating a
warm, friendly, personal learning environment, the attendees will
participate and learn more.
Learning tool
Depending on the type of event you are organizing, you may be able to make
use of these genograms in other activities. Genograms can be used as tools
to facilitate the process of gaining self-knowledge, to identify strengths
in a group in order to reinforce skills and resources already built up, and
to identify issues that could create difficulties within a family or office
unit. For example, if you are hosting a seminar for family therapists, you
can use their genograms to show them that they bring their own baggage of
unfinished family business into their practice. They may have forgotten to
deal with some of their own issues as they became involved with their
clients problems. Not only will genograms help them come to terms with
their own issues, but they may be able to use them as a tool to assess
families that come to them for help.
Organizational tool
If you are in charge of pairing up drivers and passengers in a carpool, or
roommates for an event or for a whole year in college dorms, GenoPro can
offer you a quick solution for doing it right. First, hand out a
questionnaire to gather pertinent information. After creating a legend of
color-coded symbols to identify the features that are important in pairing
people (such as type of personality, music preferences, car ownership,
etc.), create individuals in the genogram, and add in their information.
Their age and gender will appear automatically, and the colored dots will
make it a breeze to see who would get along.
Genogram symbols examples
A practical solution
As a planner, you are responsible for the success of an event or an
arrangement. GenoPro offers you a planning solution that can do so much for
you. It can help you gather information in a visual format, organize your
participants into groups, and plan engaging and insightful activities people
will really enjoy. When all is over, you can print a report on all the
information you have gathered. Youll never go back to paper and pencils
again!
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