Today was the day that all the teams were implementing their own workshops, having the chance to put all the learning in practice. We met in the working room at 10 to make the last check point, have a final overview of the situation and decide the first group.
The group started with and energizer dividing the other participants in two groups and focusing on the importance of communication. The main activity of the workshop was an imaginary “Trip to Marabella”, where the Queen and the king welcomed the participants in their kingdom and tried to communicate with the participants according to the meanings of actions in their culture, without any explanation on the language used. During the debriefing, trainers of the workshop asked questions to participants regarding what they understood from the theatre and explained how actions might have different meanings in different cultures and pointed out the meaning of the actions of the king and the queen. At the end of the workshop, the Trainers of the course asked for feedbacks to the participants, to the training team in charge and finally evaluated the performance of the group.
Just the time to set up the space and it was already time for the second group and a new energizer. Circle was created and participants closed their eyes and then doctor and freezer were selected. Freezer was able to freeze the people and doctor was able to defrost them. After the energizer, the activity that related with the LGBTQI+ rights started. They explained the meaning of each letter of the acronym and then they gave a task to the participants by dividing them into groups. The task was to make a quick research over the countries that they were given about the LGBTQI+ rights. After the research all groups shared the results and then countries were ranked according to level of respect and protection of LGBTQI+ rights in those countries. Participants discussed about the results and the ranking, and the trainers evaluated and commented on the workshop at the end.
The third group started with an energizer where participants had to act according to 2 different works: `prrrrr` and `pukutu`. If the trainer called out `prrrr`, all participants acted like a bird, and if the trainer called out pukutu all participants did not move.
The main activity that followed was about the relationship between human rights and basic needs, like financial security, family, health, friendship, (self) esteem, personal fulfilment. Participants created their own flowers with petals whose size was based on the importance of each aspect according to them; after that, to improve the smaller petals they drew leaves and wrote key words related to possible actions they’d need to make. At the end participants discussed the relationship of all topics and trainers guided the feedbacks and reflection.
After the lunch break the fourth group presented another workshop, where participants were divided in 2 groups for an energizer; they had to line up and the first person in the back of the line got a silhouette picture and had to draw it on the back of the person in front. The last person in the line said what was drawn on his back.
The main activity of this group was focused on migration and human rights, with a quiz which was giving the chance to the participants to take part in a game in order to boost their knowledge in teams. Participants were divided into 4 teams and they were provided with questions to reply within 30 seconds. Quiz was used to learn more about the current refugee situation, get more data and statistics, as well as encourage empathy and reflection. As usual, trainers asked for feedbacks from participants, from the team delivering the workshop and then gave suggestions for adaptation.
The last workshop was organized to understand the basic needs of humans with a special focus on refugees. Workshop started with a funny dancing energizer, then people were divided into different groups and tried to fit in a role of a migrant with different backgrounds and they had to decide, first individually and the in groups, the 3 basic items which they would take with them. The debriefing that followed allowed us to understand the different perspectives and meanings that each person can give to specific items and, on one hand, how difficult it is to give up on something important for us and, on the other hand, that we should always take into consideration other people’s needs. After debriefing, the trainers asked questions and discussed about the workshop, giving feedbacks and suggestions.
The day ended with a reflection where all participants shared their emotions and feelings about how it was the whole process of designing and implementing own workshops, as well as the group dynamics throughout such process; “blob tree evaluation” was used, and participants were choosing a character based on their feelings, sharing with the rest of the group.
It was a very intense day, but very productive and fruitful, with the whole group engaged and committed for a great learning experience!
After such a day, it was time to relax a bit and have fun by testing their knowledge in a pub quiz! Participants gathered at 9.30 pm, and were split in 5 groups; there were 8 categories and 2 of them were selected as jokers by each group. In the first section of the quiz, questions from “Movies/TV”, “Geography”, “Literacy”, “Random 1” were asked, while in the second section, questions from “Sport”, “History”, “Music” and “Random 2” were asked. The winner and the second ranked got a prize, but they all shared with the rest of participants, to enjoy the time together and show the group bond!
See you tomorrow!
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