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Group Building Activity
Expectations - fears - personal contribution
This tool is a scheme that, through its graphics, facilitates the expression and sharing of fears, expectation and personal contributions to the project implementation.
Aims of the tool
- facilitation of the expression of personal expectations and fears about the project and its activities and objectives
- stimulation of the participants' reflection on the project and their feeling about it
- sharing of hopes and fears trough a non-verbal instrument
- stimulation of the participants active participation in the activities through the reflection on their role in the project and their personal contribution to its development
Description of the tool
First of all is necessary to print a personal work-sheet with the immage of a libra as symble of the project for each participant. After the general explanation of the project, the enunciation of the objective and the description of the activities to be implemented, the facilitator/youth trainer should deliver the personal work-sheet to the participants asking them to reflect on their expectations related to the results of the project and write them in the upper weighing pan, to think about their fears and concerns about the abstacles to the implementation of the project, the efficacy of the activities, their involvement in it and write them in the lowest weighing pan; finally the particicipants should reflect on their personal contribution to the project, writing down in the light bulb what they can practically do during the project to support its implementation and which among their competences and abilities could be made avalaible for the group.
When all the participants will have finished, the facilitator/youth trainer could collect the worksheets and then ask to each participant to take and read one of them at random, in order to share the results of the activity and evaluate the participants' involvement and their feedback.
A variation could be to ask to the participants to stick their own worksheet in a special place on the wall and then read them on by one.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/1453
This tool addresses
Youth Initiatives, Personal Development, Youth Participation
It is recommended for use in:
Action 1.2 (Youth Initiatives)
Action 4.3 (Training and Networking)
Materials needed:
- a worksheet for each participant with the immage of a libra and a light bulb
- pens
Duration:
30 min
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Associazione Uniamoci Onlus
in the context of
this tool was created during the preparation of the youth initiative "Disability & Sexual Identity"
The tool has been experimented in
the first meeting of the project "Disability & Sexual Identity" (action 1.2)
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Davide Di Pasquale (on 18 September 2013)
and last modified
23 July 2013
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