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Exercise
Get feedback on the activities and the group for the team, let participants share their feelings and learn from each others experience, deepen relations in the group.
* Participants are split in small groups according to the number of trainers (1 trainer per subgroup). The smaller groups should be "balanced" as much as possible (gender, age, language etc.). Or alternatively you might opt to put people from a similar background organisation together to reflect on how they could use the elements of the programme in their specific work or with their specific target group.
Each group meets regularly during the training and it is part of the official programme. Each trainer should be clear about his/her role in the group and find out about the way to work together with the group. Confidentiality is a must, although the trainer will probably share the feedback from the group in the team.
It may be useful to start the meeting of the reflection groups with a group-building or get-to-know activity of some kind.
It is also possible to ask participants to take over the facilitation of the reflection groups (trying out different evaluation techniques) or to set for each meeting a primary topic for the discussion. Be creative!
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This tool is for
Any
and addresses
Group Dynamics, Project Management
Materials needed:
An individual space for each group, offering privacy and comfort, possibly some visual method for evaluation (e.g. tree model "all different-all equal”), sea of emotions or any other.
Duration:
30-60 minutes every day of the training
The tool was created by
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The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Unknown (on 29 July 2003)
and last modified
21 June 2010
Comments
For the SALTO TC Enable we asked someone to draw a landscape with many different elements in it (river, house, bridge, sun, road, etc). The metaphor for the course was 'stones' and the reflection groups were called 'Stone Groups'. Everybody had a stone and could place it on the landscape in a symbolic place, representative of his/her impression of the day e.g. on the bridge because i am making lots of new contacts, in the house because i have constructive ideas for new projects at home etc. This started off the reflection groups in a creative way (i am sure there are many other visual ways - feel free to add them!)
The reflection groups occur so much and in different settings that they can take lots of different names.
-WATT groups (What about the day today)
-Powwow groups (the tradition of indians sitting in a circle)
-tree groups (where one uses the tree with little men as an evaluation method)
-home groups (referring to the cosy homey feeling in the group OR because the repeated question \'how can you use today\'s programme at home?\'
I am sure there is many more names.
For the SALTO TC Rainbow the trainers concentrated in the reflection groups upon the question \'What was the most impresiive experience for you today?\'. They used different models that helped the participants to reflect. For example the participants could choose from the colours of the rainbow and explain how the colour was linked to their experience. An other example was \'five fingers\': Every partcipant was asked to draw a hand and point out \'What did you like?\'(thumb up), \'What would you like to point out?\'(pointing finger), \"What was not OK? (middle finger up), \'What did you experience in realtionship with others?\'(ring finger) and \'Something small\'(small finger.
In "TC Rural" (28.04.-04.05.2007), Turkey we tried to find a creative and suitable word (context) for the Re-groups and we finally agreed on "KÖY-GROUPS". KÖY = turkish word for village; as the group also served as an additional learning space for sharing realities, different understandings ecc. and reflects furthermore the geografical background of participants.
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