Toolkit Sustainable Attitude For Sustainable Development: Training Course For Youth Workers Litija 20 - 28.9.2014
Toolkit Sustainable Attitude For Sustainable Development: Training Course For Youth Workers Litija 20 - 28.9.2014
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 3
2.
ENERGIZERS ..................................................................................................................................... 3
2.1
2.1.2
2.2
3.
4.
5.
6.
2.2.1
2.2.2
Sounds of animals............................................................................................................ 5
2.2.3
2.2.4
2.2.5
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
Blanket ..................................................................................................................................... 9
3.6
Check in ................................................................................................................................. 10
4.2
Blogs ...................................................................................................................................... 10
4.3
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
Entrepreneurship .................................................................................................................. 17
1. INTRODUCTION
Sustainable attitude for sustainable development was a training course for 20 youth leaders
and youth workers from Romania, Croatia, Malta and Slovenia. The project took place from
20.9.2014 to 28.9.2014. The main objective was to become aware and to start developing
quality relationships with key stakeholders in youth work. We addressed different topics
with different methods. The purpose of this document is to share some of these methods
with all the participants and other relevant stakeholders. We hope some of them will be
used again in future training courses.
For additional information, please do not hesitate to write on: [email protected].
2. ENERGIZERS
2.1
Fun energizers
2.1.1
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Activity
answer(s). We can ask who was the leader. Who were the
followers? Were the instructions inside the group clear to
everybody?
How did the participants feel? Did everybody feel included in
the decision making? Did anybody feel excluded? What were
the feelings of the leader? What were the feelings of the
others?
What are the findings? Did you find out anything? Did you
notice something? Was there anything new to you?
How can we correlate the exercise with reality? Are there
any similarities? Can we use the findings in real life? How?
Materials
Activity
2.2
2.2.1
Family names
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Pen, post it
Activity
2.2.2
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Activity
2.2.3
Where is my pair
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Post it
Activity
2.2.4
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Different perfumes
Activity
2. We put the first perfume on the hands of the first group, the
second perfume on the hands of the second group and so
on.
3. We ask participants to open their eyes and use their nose to
find their group members.
2.2.5
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Activity
Name game
Goal
Time frame
Materials
Activity
3.2
Goal
Time frame
Materials
Activity
Photo orientation
1. Get familiar with the microenvironment
2. Team building
Depends how far the check points are. Recommended time 60 120
min.
1. Photos of the objectives we want to put into the game.
2. Colourful printer (if we need to print those photos)
3. Laptop
4. 1 smart phone or camera per group
Preparation:
1. We take photos of all the locations important for our training
course (toilets, showers, kitchen, dining room, training room,
rooms or tents of participants). Then we also take photos of
the objects around our main place. We can take photos in a
walking distance max 15-25 min.
2. We put all the photos together. We need one set of photos for
one group of participants.
Implementation
1. We divide participants into group of 3-5 people.
2. Each group get their set of pictures.
3. They need to find objects that are on the photo. When they find
one object, they need to take a funny photo which includes this
object and the group.
4. When they finish, they come back and give the photos to the
person who is in charge to put them on the computer.
5. In the evening we can organize voting for the funniest picture.
We can adopt this activity and add different tasks, regarding the main
topic of the training course and the time of the implementation (in the
beginning or later).
3.3
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Flipcharts, markers
Activity
3. The trainer gives the instruction to write down all their fears
(things that participants dont want to happen in the time of the
projects) from all the members in the group.
4. After 10 - 15 min the trainer gives the next instruction: write
down all your hopes for this project (all the things you wish to
happen this week).
5. After another 10 15 min the trainer finishes with the exercise
and asks participants to present what they wrote down.
6. Each group have 3-5 min long presentation.
7. After all the presentations the trainer asks participants if they
can help him/her to create common agreements. If nobody has
an idea, the trainer can start with the first suggestion. Basically
we put down the things which were expressed by all the groups.
At this time we can also address important issues like
punctuality, participation, respectfulness.
8. At the end we put all the flipcharts and common agreements
somewhere easy to see, so everybody will be able to look at
them at different points of the training.
3.4
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Activity
Marshmallows challenge
1. Team building
2. Observation of team work.
30 - 60 min
20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, one
marshmallow.
1. We put participants into groups.
2. They have 18 min to build the tallest free-standing structure
from the materials above. The marshmallow needs to be on the
top.
3. We check who the winner is.
4. We can just use this as a fun activity. However, it is also
recommendable to implement a debriefing after it. We can ask
questions like:
- What happened? Can you describe a whole process of
building the structure?
- How did you feel? Did you feel your capabilities are fully
used by the team? Did you feel included in decision making?
Did anybody feel excluded?
- What did you learn? What did you find out? Was there
something new for you? What are the findings, regarding the
process of creating the structure? Why where you
successful? Why werent you successful?
- Can we use the findings in reality? How? What can happen if
we implement the findings in reality?
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3.5
Blanket
Goals
Time frame
1. Team building
20 min
Materials
Blanket
Activity
1. We ask all the people to put down their shoes and step on the
blanket. There should be barely enough space for everybody, so
they need to stand really close together.
2. After all the people are on the blanket, we tell them the story:
You are on the boat. There is the sea around you and there are a
lot of deadly dangerous sharks in the sea. The team needs to
take care of all the members and not let anybody fall into the
sea. Unfortunately there was a storm and your boat turned
around. So you are actually standing on the wrong side of the
boat. If you want to be safe you need to turn the boat/blanket
around without letting anybody to step in the sea.
If the group have difficulties we can provide some hints.
3.6
Human knot
Goals
Time frame
1. Team building
10 25 min
Materials
Activity
Check in
Time frame
Materials
Flipchart, marker.
Activity
4.2
Goals
Time frame
Blogs
1. To stimulate participants to prepare written reflection
2. To ensure objective reporting about the project
30 min; Depend how long blogs do we want.
10
Materials
Activity
4.3
Goals
Laptop
1. We inform participants about the task at the very beginning
of the training.
2. We can ask each participant to write a blog on their own. We
can also make groups and they prepare blogs together. It is
important to write down who is responsible for making a
blog and until when. Usually we can have one group to make
a blog one day, and the next day its the time for the next
group.
3. We ask participants to write whatever they want about this
particular day, when they need to write a blog. It is also
important to provide some time after the dinner where one
group will be able to work and others will probably be free.
We told the participants that we will publish the blog on the
Facebook or webpage and ask if they are OK with it.
4. If they have any problems we can provide additional
questions like: what did you enjoy doing today, what would
you like to change about today, did you get to know
anything new today?
Evaluation groups
Time frame
1. To get the feedback about the training day (e.g.: learning process,
food, logistics).
2. To actively include participants into the learning process.
30-40 min every day
Materials
Activity
5. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
5.1
Goals
Open space
Time frame
Materials
Activity
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
5.2
Goals
Time frame
15 min
Materials
Computer, speakers
Activity
5.3
Goals
Team roles
1. Identification of own strengths and weaknesses regarding the
project management in youth work
Time frame
30 min
Materials
Activity
5.4
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Activity
5.5
Goals
Time frame
4h
Materials
Activity
5.6
Goals
Time frame
15
Materials
Activity
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5.7
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Activity
5.8
Goals
Time frame
Materials
Activity
Entrepreneurship
1. Brainstorm different sustainable entrepreneurship ideas.
2. Evaluate the ideas.
3. Practise the effective and relevant presentations.
Recommended time 240 min. short version can be done in 120 min.
1. Sheets of paper.
2. Flipchart.
3. Colour markers.
Preparation:
1. We need a big workplace, big enough for at least 4 groups of
people. Each group has a flipchart and markers.
Implementation
1. We divide participants into groups (for example 4 groups of 5
people, depending on the total number of participants).
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6. DRAGON DREAMING
Dragon dreaming is a concept for designing projects. It is composed from many methods and
wisdoms. Although we spent two entire days learning about it, we will not be presenting any
methods. For more information please visit the official webpage:
http://www.dragondreaming.org/. Methods and the whole concept are totally transferable
and highly useful in youth work. Examples of Dragon Dreaming workshops are listed below.
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