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Exercise
To discover, through utilizing the group's capacities, experience and potential, creative and innovative - as well as traditional and logical - ways out of challenges and obstacles faced during a project (and more specifically, a Youth Democracy Project, Action 1.3).
Phase 1 – Silent floor: Participants are walking around and watching the identified challenges* (flip charts on the floor). Participants with ideas how to deal with the particular challenges write down a note with his/her name and take an inflated balloon as a sign (it symbolizes that with the balloon someone can be lifted up on the air and travel above the mountains-challenges :)).
Phase 2 - Exchange of ideas: Participants are looking for others with balloons to ask them about ideas related to particular challenges. The ever growing revealing and merging of ideas, will probably give birth to "meta"-ideas!
Phase 3 – Participants are asked to bring in the plenary their impressions and key points.
At the end of the course, it's crucial that they receive all what has been written down in electronic format.
*Challenges (like "partnership", "funding", "local authorities support" etc) have been identified by the trainers. Alternatively, participants (depending on their experience level) can identify them in "Phase 0" (in this case, add at least 15min to the duration for some brainstorming). Or better, challenges can be identified through the discussions of the previous sessions/days.
TIPS. 1)"Chaos" in Phase 2 might discourage participants. It will certainly raise a lot of doubts and questions ("when am I going to the idea-keeper?", "what if I have an idea about something but I want to go listening someone else's idea"? e.t.c). Point out the importance of self-responsibility and self-organization. "Impress" them by letting them know that only recently "chaos" is being used to mean "disorder" (negative notion) and originally has been the equal to "generative force" (positive notion). Let them speak about their possible "chaos"-based complaints, in Phase 3 and make sure you and/or the group respond to each of them. 2) To make it even more relevant to Action 1.3, make sure there has been at least one presentation/exploration of the technicalities/specificities of this Action beforehand.
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http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/859
This tool is for
between 15 - 30 (not less, cause then the collective "background" knowledge might not be sufficient and no more, it's going to be even more "chaotic" than it actually is!)
and addresses
Project Management, Youth Democracy projects, Youth Participation
Materials needed:
Markers, flip chart papers with challenges written legibly on them (one paper, one challenge), balloons, string
Duration:
45 min.
The tool was created by
Unknown.
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The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Athanasios (Sakis) Krezios (on 8 April 2008)
and last modified
17 December 2008
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