Active Citizens Global Toolkit - Active Citizens - British Council

Tips for delivering your workshop
During
� Use learning journals. Give Active Citizens the opportunity to reflect
and write down their learning during and after local workshop activities.
This improves learning outcomes and is also a useful technique for
those who want to improve their facilitation style and method.
� Use the skills and experience of the group. Find out the skills,
backgrounds and experiences of the group. Empower the group to
support each other and encourage them to take decisions roles about
how the programme develops.
� Use local and global case studies, newspaper articles, films and
images to stimulate conversation and learning. Check the Active
Citizens website for ideas.
� Encourage social action which is not reliant on funding. Funding is
an opportunity, it shouldn’t be a necessity.
� Signpost resources. Pass on information to your group about how to
continue learning beyond the workshop. Identify local resources and
check the Active Citizens website.
After
� Share your activities and experiences globally. Share the good
practice as well as the challenges that you and your group have
encountered. Share workshop sessions, videos, photographs and case
studies at international events and online.
Throughout
� Use the Active Citizens online resources and facilitators' network.
Participate in online discussions (e.g. Twitter, Facebook and Ning).
Download and share resources online, and work with Active Citizens
participants to enable them to do the same. Contextualised and locally
adapted material can be shared with the Active Citizens Global Network
by uploading it on to the Ning site into the ‘Additional toolkit resources’
folder. Please contact your British Council Active Citizens Country
Manager to be set up on Ning.
� Share your experiences and learning with your local British Council
office regularly. The Active Citizens team at the British Council are
always looking for new stories to share with the Global Network on the
Active Citizens website.
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