6 Thinking Stickers

Aims of the tool

Aim of the exercise is to think about events happened during training and make evaluation or self-evaluation.

Description of the tool

Trainer prepares big paper (6 Flipcharts taped to each other) and paints just circuitously any word: for example: THANK YOU! Also he/she prepares 6 different color stickers: white, red, yellow, pink, green and blue.

Trainer puts big taped Flip chart and color stickers on the floor.

Also, trainer writes on the flip chart or whiteboard descriptions of the color stickers:
white - Data, Information, Facts - on the white stickers participants write just facts which they can remember happened.
red - Feelings and Emotions - What the feelings and emotions their had during the training?
yellow - Positive things - participants answer the question: What positive things happened in training period? (something the most important for them).
pink - Contribution. What were their contributions during the training?
green - Creative thinking and ideas. What was the most interesting and new for them, which engaged them to create something new?
blue - Summaries, conclusion. What conclusion their made after the training? How their summarized it for themselves.

Trainer gives to participants 20-30 minutes to make fill each color stickers and attach stickers randomly on the words written on flip chart.

Better if trainer uses some background music.

When all participants finish their job, trainer together with volunteers, hang on the flip chart on the wall to show everyone how colorful and divers picture their get together.

After it trainer decide to do group work on leave it just for self-evaluation.

If trainer would to continue, he/she asks questions, according the colors in the big group and collects participants answers.