How to Prepare for a Mission Trip

Teams will become more acquainted with each other by discovering more about individual personality, work style, and conflict style. Individuals become more acquainted with and develop understanding of how they will react in different situations and how this can impact others. This process allows teams to understand how the dynamics of their personality impact others and how group dynamics can affect them. Getting to know each other and understand each other on a deeper level can improve relationships between group members and create a more cohesive trip experience. The goal is to create a more empathetic environment through building a bond of trust and practice working together to cultivate a group partnership before the trip.

The trainers will share about what stress is and science behind how stress affects the brain and body. Teams will identify potential stressors as a group. Teams will have a chance to practice exercises shown by trainers to aid in mitigating stress. Group will come up with ideas on how as a group and individually they can support each other and communicates as stress builds, in stressful situations, and post stressor.

After warmup and getting to know each other the group can have the opportunity to address what they are expecting on the trip. Evaluate what they expect to be easy, hard, stressful, areas that could lead to conflict. Set categories and goals for each category.