title: Great Session Openers, Closers, and Energizers: Quick Activities for Warming Up Your Audience and Ending on a High Note
author:  Marlene Caroselli 
description: Start Your Session Off With A Bang, And Finish With A Crowd-Pleaser Sure to energize Your Audience! For every speaker or trainer who has ever faced a roomful of restless--or reluctant--learners, this book is a lifesaver! It's a fun-filled collection of can't--miss acitivities containing the openers, closers, and energizers you need to kick off each session with a bang, quickly focus an audience's wandering attention, and end each session on a high note. no matter what kind of training is involved, these activities will enable you to: Warm up to the group so that everyone feels ready and eager to learn; sinish the session with a bang, so trainees feel good about what they have learned; Make learning memorable; Make training entertaining; Reinforce the key points in your presentation; Spark active involvement from all participants. Best of all, you'll save hours of preparation time with these ready-made, easy-to-use activities, including role plays, small-group exercices, team tasks, quizzes, and much more.
zlib_text: Transcript of Videotape: Beyond Human -- Session 5 Transcript of Videotape
  Series Session 5 of 12 Beyond Human -- The Last Call - Session 5 (60 Min)
  Well, this is the fifth session in our series. I'm not going to bother naming
  the series again, because if you don't know what the name of it is now after
  four sessions, we're all in trouble. So, we might refer to it as our
  overcoming series. I have asked the students who helped with Sessions 1 and 2
  to return to the scene and assist me in our questions today. So, let's get
  going. Before we get into it, I must let you know that this fifth session is a
  major step beyond the previous sessions we have had. When we get more into the
  particulars of overcoming, then we need to somehow narrow our audience more to
  the serious seekers - I don't like to sound spiritual in that - but to the
  ones who feel that somehow or other this is connecting with them. And I'm
  hoping that those who are viewing this session are in that position in your
  heads so tha