TASKs for democracy

Debriefing/reflecting
How did you feel during this activity? Was it easy? Difficult? What was easy/difficult in particular?
This should be a brief open exchange of feelings and impressions, without necessarily going into much depth.
ACTIVITY 2 “WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR US?” – 90 MINUTES
Resources
A piece of paper, poster size or bigger (one per group). This should be divided into three to five sections
(one per group member) and one central space (see appendix)
Different coloured markers (one marker per person, different colours for each group member)
Practical arrangements
Procedures
A working room for each group – or a big room where working with the number of groups formed
is possible
One big table per group
1. Form groups of equal size (four to five people, any grouping method you prefer) and give the instructions
for group work (15 minutes).
2. Instructions for group work
Go to your working table.
Each of you reads the narrative of your neighbour on the left and underlines what seems significant
to you (15 minutes).
Each of you writes into your part of the poster the three most significant items you took from your
neighbour’s narrative (5 minutes).
The authors of the narratives can comment on the choice of their peers and replace one of the items
and/or add one more item to the list (15 minutes).
The group selects up to six most significant items and writes them in the common space of the poster
(25 minutes).
The group prepares the poster for presentation and distributes the roles for the following activity
(15 minutes).
ACTIVITY 3 “WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THEM?” – 75 MINUTES
Resources
Pin walls or other means to pin posters on the wall
Practical arrangements
A big room, which allows also for moving around from poster to poster. An extra, empty poster is pinned on
the wall apart from the other posters.
Procedures
1. Pin your posters on the wall in the space foreseen for this (10 minutes). Two members of the group stay
with the group poster to discuss and exchange views with passing visitors. One group member initiates
the discussion, the other member takes notes.
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