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Facilitation is a process where the facilitator and the participants go through a journey where:
• An ambience of freedom and trust is created through a strong bond
• Tools like video clips, stories, group activities etc. are used to provide insights and inspire/ motivate
• Debrief sessions follow with thought provoking posers to enable creative thinking and connect with the theme
• Sessions are open-ended – there is no conclusion as to what is right/ wrong
Overview
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Facilitation
• Journey of facilitator and participants
• No authority in the session
• Joyous, learning, exploratory, informal, interactive
• Non-judgmental, open ambience – free from
• Like-dislikes
• Rights-wrongs
• Prejudices, biases
• Notions, opinions
• Conclusion:
• Each one can have own (different) understanding
• One draws one’s own conclusions – more sustaining
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• Is a friend who creates a strong bond with participants
• Believes that all are innately good
• Is a co-learner in the journey
• Intends to become a better individual – than change others
• Poses the right questions – with a curiosity to know, learn
• Prepares for the sessions but is spontaneous, creative
• Does not impose own views, opinions, judgments, conclusions
• Focuses on positives – people, situations
• Is a good listener
Facilitator
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Ice-breakers
Begin with ice-breakers involving everyone, to create a free ambience and build a bond
• All to breath 5 times, debrief on awareness and connect with theme
• How many squares are there in the adjacent figure?
• Count numbers in 1 minute, repeat with a target
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Situations
Present situations that relate to and connect with daily life
• The people in your society are about to cut down the old tree in the compound to build a car park
• The auto driver demands Rs. 20 more than the actual amount to be paid. This has been happening time and again
• You find a Rs. 100 note on the pavement• Your mother has made your favourite dish which she rarely makes. Just then, your
friends come home uninvited for lunch
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Role plays
Present real-life personalities, professions, events, incidents
• Dignity of labour – different professions• Academic excellence and humaneness• Contribution of nature and environment
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Group activities
Provide props – learning through activities
• Magic square – create groups, blindfold participants, throw in a rope to each group and they have to form a square
• Super structure – director, runner, builder with tangram• Howzzat – passing number of balls with everyone having to touch
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Video clips
Show inspirational video clips, incidents and thought-provoking speeches
• Boy gives chocolate – S08.13• Elevator music – S07.07• Father asking about sparrow – S10.05
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Stories
Narrate elevating, contemporary stories with pauses at critical intervals to elicit participants thoughts
• Blue ribbon – S07.02• Stench of hatred – S07.10• Share the good corn – S08.10
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Depictions
Exhibit thematic depictions and allow messages to get internalised
• Behind the meal• Challenges in society• Micro to macro
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Presentations (PPTs)
Show presentations and arouse curiosity with pauses to trigger interactive discussions
• The car garage – S07.12• The Brooklyn bridge – S08.08• Eddy – S09.13
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Games
Play games for fun, bonding and spin-off learning
• Hooray! - Form a circle, count from 1, say “hooray” instead of 7, its multiples and numbers ending with 7
• Chinese whispers• Hurdle – guide and follower (blind-folded), obstacles placed along the way
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Audio tracks
Play meaningful, peppy songs; follow-up with group singing
• Imagine• Another day in paradise• Heal the world
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• Debrief is an open discussion wherein the facilitator poses open-ended (non-directional, non-conclusive) questions based on the tool used
• The posers provoke thought and are aimed at:
• Exploring the messages in the tool
• Understanding the relevance in day-to-day life
• Chalking out a plan of action to apply learnings in real life
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Examples
• What was the video about?
• How did you feel when you saw the video?
• What is sharing?
• How do you feel when someone gives you something?
• Is it possible to share everything?
• What are the things that you can share?
• With whom can you share?
• Is this practical in day-to-day life?
• Would you do anything differently in future after seeing the video?
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Collateral learnings
Back
Ability to listen to others – being patient to present own views
To be open, free and non-judgmental in approach
Creative, spontaneous thinking – thinking differently/ out-of-the-box
Confidence, perseverance to present perspectives
Firm (in own convictions) and flexible (towards others’ opinions)
Accommodate, respect and appreciate others’ perspectives
Apart from the learnings related to the
particular theme or topic being
discussed, many collateral
(undercurrent) learnings take place
along the way
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THANK YOU
Contact
Narayanan PK | [email protected] | +91 9845390141
Ramchandran A | [email protected] | +91 9379449036
