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Exercise, Group Building Activity
It’s an integration workshop for migrants and locals striving to promote mutual understanding, empathy and willingness to help and understand each other. It should provide unique experience of walking a mile in somebody’s shoes.
Understanding, Tolerance, Integration, Exchanging cultural knowledge, developing communication and finding creative ways to express.
This project takes place in a European Country.
Timetable: Friday noon until Monday morning.
First day: Taking the group to a Training Centre in natural surroundings. Starting with Energizing and Icebreaking games, Teambuilding activities, fire making together at night with exchange of cultural aspects, sleep in the provided area.
Second day: Main expedition
Morning programme: creative reflection by painting on the first day.
More advanced teambuilding experiences. Lunch at the centre.
Splitting in two groups ->
Migrant group: Taking resources from the centre to build a shelter in a provided area in the woods, make a campfire there and prepare food while having the task of switching gender roles. Duration: 4-5 hours, walking distance: 5 km
Local group: Task to take only 3 necessary things with them. Going with the role of a “smuggler” and another person not intervening.
Hiking through a challenging area including a river (boat ride), hills and a provided barrier which they have to overcome. At a certain place they are abandoned and have to find the way to the shelter with signs on their own. Duration: 4-5 hours, walking distance: 15-20 km
Group reunion at the shelter. Migrant group welcomes locals with prepared food and shelter and sleep in the shelter together.
Next morning: After breakfast reflection group activities, packing and transporting materials back the short way to the training centre, Met reflection after food, free time together, stay the night at the centre, next morning departure.
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http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/1862
This tool is for
Age/Background: 15-23 years old, Migrants and Locals balanced, gender balanced Group size: max. 20
and addresses
Social Inclusion, Anti-Racism, Intercultural Learning, Personal Development
It is recommended for use in:
Youth Exchanges
Training and Networking
Materials needed:
Shelter making equipment, food, creative materials, boat, signs and hints
Duration:
3 days (can be extended)
The tool was created by
Elmina Loumbardi, Orhun Yağiz, Simon Presser, Melanie Simunovic, Martha Rep
in the context of
Training Course EXPEDITION – Designing adventures in rural environments for Youth 2016 May 14-22nd Lithuania
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Laimonas Ragauskas (on 26 July 2016)
and last modified
14 June 2016
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