As always, we love to see what ideas others have to share, so here's one sent to us a few days ago on the timeless topic of how to keep sabha topics fresh. For those that try this idea out, please shoot us a photo - we'd love to feature it to our fellow sabhaologists.
I take care of K2 sabhas in my region, and one of the most frustrating things in sabha has been properly doing the monthly retention game.
The K2s are old enough to not really care about the games that can be somewhat silly, and the session really lacks the stickiness punch needed to make an impact.
So, much like with the vicharan shake-up which has been going amazingly well (even the kishores who never want to put their cell phones away in sabha now can't help putting them away during these sessions), I tried something different.
In our K2 sabha room, we have a huge pin board. Usually we put up issues of Bliss or Nilkanth on it, but nobody reads them. I decided to put up a huge empty board, and put out a bunch of markers near the beginning and at the end of each sabha. Kishores then write memorable quotes, draw some quick picture, or maybe write a phrase about a story that we heard in sabha.
What makes this effective is that the "retention" part of it is ongoing. And because they themselves write on it, it makes it a lot more interesting and memorable when they look back on it every time they come to sabha.
It's a collage of different colors, different hand writings, a mix of English and Gujarati. It adds a lot more color to our sabha room also.
Try putting something like this up in your sabha room. June is about to start. It may just change how memorable a month's worth of sabhas can be.
Give something like this a shot. If these kinds of experiments can be done at a shiksharbandh mandir center, maybe others can try it also.