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For best results, 70 students should be the cap. However, in special circumstances arrangements for a greater number of students can be made. For more information email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Yes. It will cost you more to add in overnight facilities and more meals, but if you feel that is the best way to make the workshop work for you, our staff and facilitators will be happy to help you make that happen. The only additional cost from our end will be if our facilitators will need to stay an extra night and/or if you need additional facilitators to be able to make this happen.

Yes. Several campuses have chosen to use the SALAD workshop in this way, typically making it the Saturday curriculum for a retreat that begins with team building on Friday night and ends with some type of action-planning or goal-setting on Sunday. Our facilitators typically only do the SALAD elements of the retreat.

The workshop can be done either on an evening from approximately 5 to 10pm or on a weekend day from 10am to 3pm (or whatever times work best for you). We encourage you to have it when the greatest number of students can attend for the entire workshop. We have found that when students arrive late, or leave early, it disrupts the workshop dynamic.

This workshop is flexible in meeting students where they are. That can mean varying levels of development or for different groups of people. SALAD could be effective for one organization—such as student government, RHA or the programming board—to work through issues related to serving a diverse campus community. Or the workshop can bring together leaders of several different student organizations from across campus to facilitate community-building as an additional goal. SALAD can incorporate fraternity and sorority members with other student leaders or be facilitated for just Greeks. A cross-section of student involvement levels and ages works best for all formats.

As long as the group is not overwhelming or intimidating to students, advisors and administrators are welcome to sit in as silent observers. It is important that the discussion is completely generated by student perceptions, and not by advisor or administrator issues. If there is an issue you feel is not being addressed fully or honestly by students, pull the facilitator aside at an appropriate time and let him or her know so they can challenge students better.

Three things. Mainly, the number of students who will be attending—for groups over 35, an additional facilitator needs to be added. Additionally, weekday workshops tend to be more expensive than weekends because of airfare costs without a Saturday night stay. Finally, the 6-hour curriculum is best facilitated by two people, and provides students with more in-depth discussion and more activities.

No, not at all! Our curriculum is designed to engage culturally-based groups that conduct intake rather than more formal recruitment processes. The workshop is designed with those two groups in mind.