Understanding and Challenging Stigma toward ... - Pact Cambodia

Tips
Workshop Opening Activities
Breaks
Organize games or songs to break the ice, build a sense of community, and
help participants relax and have some fun.
Ask participants to give their expectations about the workshop and then explain
the objectives, including what the workshop will do and what it will not do.
Agree on ground rules, e.g., confidentiaity, active participation, listening, cell
phones off.
Organize breaks to allow participants to rest and get some food or drinks to
re-energize.
Check with whoever is preparing the food so that it is ready when you need it.
Giving Instructions for Exercises
Start off by telling participants what the exercise is. For example: “The first
exercise is ‘Naming Stigma through Pictures.’ We will look at these pictures in
pairs and discuss the kinds of stigma we see in these pictures.”
Explain one step in an exercise at a time and get participants to do it. Then
explain the next step and get them to do that as well. If you take them through all
the steps in the exercise before asking them to do any, they will just become
confused, and it wastes time.
Keep your instructions simple and clear and use examples to help with
understanding.
If participants have blank looks, check that they have understood: “What are
you being asked to do/discuss?”
Write the instructions or discussion questions on a flipchart and use the same
words that you plan to use in explaining the instructions or questions.
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