MOSAIC - The training kit for Euro-Mediterranean youth work

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Lose yourself
Can you lose yourself and still be you?
Participants reflect on the most important aspects of their identity
– and then compare them with other people’s.
Themes
Level of
complexity 2
Diversity Intercultural Political and
and minorities learning institutional context
Issues addressed
Identity and how we relate to it
The challenges faced by young
people in minority groups in
the Euro-Mediterranean region
Living with diversity
Objectives
To become aware of other people’s
understanding of identity and the
importance it assumes in their lives
To experience what it might feel
like to “lose” or change your
identity
To discuss how we can be
respectful towards
the self-identities of others
Group
size Any
Time
90 minutes
Materials
Flipchart; paper and pens for each participant
Instructions
Ask participants to brainstorm what they understand by the word “identity”.
Write their answers on a flipchart.
Hand a piece of paper to each participant and ask them to divide it into
eight sections. In each section, they should write down one element in
their own identity, so that the whole piece of paper covers what they
consider most essential to themselves. Allow about 10 minutes for this
part of the activity.
Lose yourself