The Buzz Training Manual
Most colleges purchase The Buzz Training Manual which gives contains all the information necessary to easily reproduce The Buzz as well as licensing rights.
The manual costs $1,500 and grants licensing rights from the University of Arizona for two years. After two years it is only $300/year.
Click the link below to purchase the manual:
Speaker Workshops
The Buzz creator, Spencer Gorin, will come to your campus and customize a program to best serve your Campus Health and Wellness unit, Residence Life, Greek organizations, health advocates/educators and student population. Flexible and creative presentation/training options will be considered.
About the Creator of The Buzz
Spencer Gorin is an internationally known presenter, author, and originator of multiple programs that increase empathy, connection, self-regulation and discovery.
Spencer’s creative slant as a developer of services, milieu, and programming began at various mental health and in-patient psychiatric settings. It was there as a nurse, front-line interventionist, Triage/Enrollment Supervisor for mental health services, and Youth Service Coordinator that Spencer realized the importance of interactive play and facilitated dialogue to address success in human relations and critical thinking.
In 1992, Spencer co-created the anti-bullying, character education program, Healthy Play IS a Solution and soon after co-authored the book, Learning to Play, Playing to Learn, Curriculum and Activities for Classroom and Playground Management, (revised third edition). Through the Healthy Play program, Spencer has not only trained thousands of teachers, counselors and other youth-serving professionals but has also directly worked with over 150,000 students.
In 2010, the University of Arizona brought Spencer in to capitalize on his unique, playful and engaging methodologies to create an alcohol education program that college students would actually enjoy participating in, learn from, and identify personal intent to moderate drinking behaviors. The serious problem of college student alcohol consumption demanded a different way of reaching students. The Buzz and Spencer’s facilitated-learning approach quickly made this one of the most sought after presentations by residence halls and Greek chapters. Finally, there is a way to deliver harm reduction and moderation messaging that students are joyously receptive to.
To schedule Spencer for a presentation, workshop, training and/or consult, contact:
The Buzz
Spencer Gorin
The University of Arizona
1224 E. Lowell St. Bldg.95
Tucson, AZ 85721-0095
(520) 621-6483
Training Options
The recommended format is to have your counselors, RAs, Greek Life Office, Campus Health, Wellness, and student representatives, etc. experience a Buzz presentation and/or train-the-trainers workshop. Consultation on presentation content, style and delivery will be covered.
Buzz training workshops are frequently rated the best and certainly the most fun training workshop that most people have attended. They are 3 hours in length and will extensively cover all the Buzz activities and how to facilitate them as well as learning how to alter them for specific groups and group size. Together we will identify the most important alcohol education messages and topics that your school wants to make sure it addresses to its student population. Perhaps most importantly, I also cover and model the dynamics of how to facilitate student learning by teaching concepts of experiential learning and utilizing the power of play, connection and multiple intelligence learning modalities. This is the part of the program that makes it more of a joy to deliver alcohol education messaging. Students will then experience such messaging in a relevant and meaningful manner that has the great potential for affecting positive cognitive, affective, and behavioral change.
I have facilitated Buzz training workshops with just student and student stake-holders such as health advocates, RAs and peer educators or with professional Wellness, counseling, DOS, residence life and other student-servicing staff. However, my favorite trainings are the ones where there is a combination of both student and professional staff. I find it validating (as do the participants) when the professional staff can see actual students really resonating with how The Buzz is facilitated. I like to limit the number of attendees to no more than 40 so we can have a sense of connectedness and ability for dialogue and sharing. That number is flexible if needed.
For high school districts, utilizing The Buzz as college preparation alcohol education, it is recommended to bring in your counselors, identified teachers, nurses and other student services personnel for a train the trainer workshop with Spencer.
I am always available for free phone consults before and after your Buzz training workshop and am highly motivated that The Buzz succeeds well at your school like it has here at the UA.
So give me a call and let's discuss the possibilities bringing The Buzz to your school.
