Personal development, Reflection, Teambuilding
> 60 min.
Large group, Small group
No preparation
No materials needed
Problem solving
Dealing with conflict, Collaboration, Responsibility
Courage, Self-regulation
Objectives
Participants learn to engage and take action on small problems or nuisances. By being attentive, sharing insights and taking small steps on challenges participants are empowered to take action.
Instructions
Small improvements can help daily living.
Ask the learners to:
- Think of the features of daily life that bother you, ones you would like to change. The general principle in decision-making is to externalize your thoughts by writing a list, taking pictures or making a short film of these bothersome aspects. So, what exactly bugs you?
- Make a first list. After making the bug list, go through it and share it. See if you can find a pattern. Are there any bugs you can solve? What is the positive counterpart of the bug, might this offer insight for a solution?
- Now make a bug list during one week and repeat the process. What bugs did you encounter during that week? Are there any bugs that you have in common with the group? Work in pairs or groups to share the bugs and come up with ideas to solve (one of) these problems. It doesn’t need to be solved right away, but how would you start? Who could help? How could you try it out?
- Make a small action-plan, try it out. Share and reflect on the action taken, bumps and results.
Variant
Instead of asking learners to make an individual action plan you could ask them to make one as a group on a bug-challenge.