What happened during the exercise? (direct attention to major points during the event and have students describe how they responded)ģ. How did you feel during the exercise? (focus on several key parts of the activity to activate students’ feelings)Ģ. Thiagi generally recommends that the debriefing be more than just a quick series of reaction statements and that it sometimes may last longer than the activity itself.ġ. If you have them on an overhead slide (one slide per area), you can pace the debriefing by shifting from one to the other as time and the students’ responses indicate. Thiagi recommends that you generate a few questions from six general areas ahead of time to use as needed to stimulate exploration and reflection. An excellent set of general questions for debriefing any activity comes from Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan, editor of the Thiagi Gameletter (February 1999, Volume 1 Number 10), copyright 1999 by Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, San Francisco. College students are “developmentally ready” for self-awareness activities, but they may be very unfamiliar with the process of reflection and exploration that it calls for.
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