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Simulation Exercise
This Tool is to encourage exploration, reflection, and constructive dialogue about all things gender.
To encourage exploration, reflection, and constructive dialogue around all aspects of gender.
The purpose of this activity is to simulate realistic conversations with characters who hold problematic or disputable views about gender. By meeting and/or embodying these characters, participants will explore the complexities and frustrations that come with addressing rigid, biased, or controversial beliefs in direct conversation. This experience aims to build empathy, resilience, and dialogue skills when engaging people with challenging viewpoints, in a controlled environment.
Disclaimer: the activity is deliberately designed to provoke “uncomfortable” conversations with characters that are designed to not be interested in constructive dialogue. This allows to simulate such discussions in a controlled environment and to reflect on how they may affect the participants emotionally and mentally. It is extremely important to stress that the exercise is a role play and give the group enough time to “step out” of the role play and debrief properly.
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http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/4859
This tool addresses
Gender issues
The tool was created by
Søholm 4H (Denmark) and Las Niñas del Tul (Spain)
in the context of
an Erasmus+ Key Action 2 small scale partnership
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Daniel Gismera Casasola (on 30 May 2025)
and last modified
22 April 2025
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