Aims:
- Forming a tolerant attitude towards differences
- Building the concept of differences as a resource in the teamwork process
- Acquiring the skills involved in planning social work: planning the activities for a project
Target group: schoolchildren of the senior classes, students at colleges and universities, members of school and student councils. A permanent team of 10-15 persons is to take part in the Programme from each individual educational institution.
Duration: 2 hours
Short Description:
The chief content of this training session lies in its allowing teenagers to consider their own individuality and uniqueness, their particular abilities and talents. In modeling a dystopian society of lonely people, such as that described in the story “Harrison Bergeron” by the great science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut, the participants muse over the significance of differences in the life of society and of individuals. The question is then discussed of their own relations with people unlike themselves.
The session actualises the participants' desire to appreciate the resource of diversity, and motivate them to exploit it to the maximum extent in their teamwork.
After this, the group return to their work on their own social projects, whose aims were determined in the previous session. The aim of this module is to lend maximum structure to their plans for the realisation of their projects, dividing it into the necessary stages, the major and subsidiary tasks, as well as spread the responsibility for them among the members of their teams (making use of the strengths and abilities of individuals).
As a result, the participants will come up with a clear, feasible plan, broken down into comprehensible phases, which they can act on to begin to implement their social project.