The Training of Trainers Manual - UNFPA

Day 4
Demonstrate how they should stand. Carefully check and monitor the circle as
much as possible.
Explain that the person in the centre must remain standing as stiff as a board the
whole time, with their arms crossed at chest level and hands under the armpits.
When she or he is ready to begin, she or he should say, ‘Ready to fall.’ The circle
should reply, ‘Ready to catch.’ The person then says, ‘I’m falling,’ and the circle
responds, ‘Fall away.’
As the ‘willow’ falls out towards the circle, make sure he or she remains stiff and
doesn’t bend at the waist. The participants support the ‘willow’ and slowly move
him or her around, back and forth. Invite people in the circle to make very soft
blowing sounds, passing air between their lips to sound like a gentle wind.
Closure
After the ‘willow’ has been moved around in the ‘wind’ for a couple of minutes,
ask the group to help the person stand upright. Ask another participant to
volunteer to stand in the centre.
Discuss with the participants what they felt during this exercise.
Training topic
Working with especially vulnerable youth
Objectives of the session
To help participants understand how stigma, discrimination, and other risk factors
increase young people’s vulnerability and to suggest effective ways to work with
especially vulnerable youth.
Exercise: Power walk
Objectives
To raise awareness about the inequality of opportunities in society
To foster an understanding of possible personal consequences of
belonging to certain social minorities or cultural groups
40-50
minutes
To help participants identify vulnerable and marginalised groups
To promote empathy with those who are different from oneself
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