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What If We Don't Ask for Expectations at the Beginning of Training?
This is an article - reflection dedicated to a small experiment we did during the CivicART Lab in February 2026, part of CivicArt: Capacity-Building for
Art-Based Civic Education (Project No. 101184018, Erasmus+ ERASMUS-YOUTH-2024-CB)
Aims of the tool
To explore the possibility of not gathering expectations from participants at. the beginning of the training
Description of the tool
Asking participants to name their expectations at the start of a training is one of the most established rituals of
non-formal education. It signals participant-centredness, gives the facilitation team a first read of the group, and
marks the symbolic entrance into a different kind of learning space. It is, in many ways, a pedagogical reflex -so embedded in our practice that we rarely stop to question it.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/6097
This tool addresses
Youth Participation
It is recommended for use in:
Capacity Building
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
https://civicart.rcfres.org
in the context of
Capacity Building Project CivicArt
The tool has been experimented in
Creative Lab "CivicLab"
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Ekaterina (Katya) Sherer Sherer (on 22 October 2026)
and last modified
19 October 2026
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