Lead Facilitator’s Training 2008, 22nd-23rd Feb

The Trybe Centre was the venue for the first Lead Facilitator’s training of 2008. Held over a period of 2 days, the workshop took a group of prominent volunteers and threw them into a vat of “Leadership Potion” to concoct an ideal batch of Lead Facilitators for Trybe’s flagship program, “You Can Do It!”

Stirring the potion were our very own Rachel Ong, Nic Lee, Raffy Panes and of course, newly-wed Deputy General Manager of Trybe, Jaime Lee. The first day outlined the very core of Trybe, with regards to our vision, our mission, and the history of the organization from its days as Thumbs Up.

The second day opened up the youthful and fun-loving bunch of volunteers to the techniques used in conducting the “You Can Do It!” program, covering everything from the AAA concept, to the history of DiSC, to Profile Interpretation, Classroom Management and Transactional Analysis. Who could forget Nic’s adorable impression of a High-S 9-year-old girl?

Personally, the most important lesson I learnt from this workshop is how to help people by helping them help themselves, and not letting them be dependent on others to the extent that they feel needy and inadequate. Too much of a good thing is bad. Like Kai said in the sharing session at the end: “We need to stop giving them fish and start teaching them to fish. If not, they will not want to learn anymore.” It is indeed a very important message to take note of, especially for those of you who are reading this and love to reach out and help the ones around you.

All of us, as participants, left with new Trybe shirts, laminated “certificates”, as well as the pride of being the new batch of Lead Facilitators for 2008. We’ll see you in school soon, yea? Keep a lookout!!!!

Posted on behalf of Ethan

Power^Youth Trybe Newsletter for 1st Quarter 2008 is out!

Dearest friends of Trybe,

We present to you the 1st issue of Power^Youth newsletter in 2008!

It had been a busy last quarter of 2007, but January 2008 was an even bigger splash with programmes intensively packed each week. We are thankful to be able to influence more and more youths.

In this issue, hear our star youth volunteer Bingrong’s experience in heading the very first Trybe Sports Day last December! Also read more about our module on Peer Mentoring Development which had proven to impact students in amazingly deep ways. You will see testimonials from students of River Valley High School who had gone through our Peer Mentor training November last year!

If you have anything interesting to share send it to us we will try to put it up in our next issue of the newsletter.


Check out our Trybe Newsletter with the links below

Hua Yi Leadership Camp 2008

The camp’s objective was “everybody wins,” making sure that everyone is built up in their leadership. It was a wonderful camp whose objective was met and all the projects successfully implemented!! I was so amazed by how fast the students pick up the message and demonstrate it.

Let me mention some of the key features for leadership that I observed during the camp!

LEADERS MOTIVATE: During the activities, I heard students encouraging each other saying “Good Job” “You can do it!” ”Go, go, go!” “Wooooo” and taking initiative to cheer for others who have done a good job. I picked up a Chinese word which is “Jia you” as it was mentioned so many times in the camp! I also heard students encouraging each other by saying “I like how you did ~” “You are so good at ~” I really felt the energy and empowerment!

LEADERS SUPPORT: I saw students asking each other “Is there anything I can help?” Or even without saying anything some students just took the job and helped other teams once they were done with their own team’s work. Some where happy to get their hands dirty. Some where very persistent to support and not giving up the job half way through. Some students volunteered to help the aunty to plant the seeds which was even out of the scope of the camp. Everyone’s support was an important element for the whole group to win as a team!

LEADERS RESPECT: I saw some respect from leaders trying to include everyone in the discussion by asking “Why don’t you join in?” “What do you think?” This shows a sense of respect that we care about what you think and your opinion is important to the group. I also saw respect from staffs and volunteers toward the students as they trusted the students are capable of managing the project and left it up to the students not poking into what students are doing or giving too many instructions but being there when support is required.

My favorite quote. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. John Quiency Adams.” Wow, I saw this happening so many times in this camp. Well-organized and well-designed camp to bring out the potentials of the student leaders with great role models for leaders all over the place. I learn so much. Thank you, students, volunteers and staffs for the great time!!


Posted on behalf of Akiko
(Is currently an intern at Trybe for a month, and she is from Japan taking up masters degree at Hitotsubashi University)

Some feedback from the participants:

"I enjoyed "Matrix" game the most as this involves team cooperation. Our facilitators are very enthusiastic which influenced me to join in the fun. This is the first time we had to plan the other half of the camp ourselves in just a few hours! This is really challenging as it normally takes at least a week to plan a part of the camp and rehease it out. Overall, I've learnt to plan things in a quicker pace, and I love the camp!"
- Jonathan (SEC4)

"though the camp was tiring it was real fun. I learnt very much from the camp. The facilitators were really good. They were really helpful and kind. I feel that Trybe should be organizing more of such events."
- Cyrus (LALALA Group)

Take Part In The National Day Parade 2008!

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Some of you guys might be interested, in taking part in the National Day Parade 2008!

TOUCH Community Services has been given an opportunity to be involved in the Show Segment – Act 3 featuring youths before the fireworks segment. And they are urgently looking for more youths to come forward and help out.

They are looking for 200 SkyRunners and 100 Hip Hop dancers to perform at the 2008 National Day Parade.

if you are physically fit, able to commit to 3-hrs of training twice a week, and are between the ages of 15-35 yrs old.

This is a chance for you to come and be a part of Singapore's most important national event.

Visit their website at http://touchndp2008.blogspot.com/
Or send your application to touchndp2008@gmail.com

Anglican House building A-Team

This is the 3rd year that Trybe was given the honor to conduct the teambuilding camp for the Anglican House hostilities.

The camp was a huge success because of the following reasons (not in any particular order):
- Excellent spirit
full participation from all campers, always giving their best
- Excellent facilitators
We have a group of international facilitators (Philippines, China and Singapore). Two of our facilitators were participant of the teambuilding camp 2 years ago.
- Multi-talented People
We sing dance, sing and dance, sing and dance…… more sing and dance
- Creative Minds
We have the most creative team cheer…. 1 banana 2 banana 2 banana….
- The fastest amazing race ever
All the groups were able to complete their task 1 hour before finishing time with lunch. Everybody say WOW!
and many many more…Check out the photos below

Posted on behalf of Jas