Checklist: Possible ways to activate participants

Contents 1 Participants/ responsibility for... 2 What you can do or plan concretely... 2.1 Learning goals and outcomes 2.2 Program steps and activities 2.3 Well-being of the group 2.4 Free time, party, social activities, seminar room 2.5 Elke Heublein 2.6 Handbook for Facilitators: Holistic Learning 2.7 Related: 2.8 Holistic Learning Participants/ responsibility for...	What you can do or plan concretely...
Learning goals and outcomes	Shared daily evaluation Discussing alternative paths and goals Allowing participants to define their needs
Program steps and activities	Shared planning sessions (Co-)moderation by participants Presentations
Well-being of the group	Participants define, what they understand under "well-being" Independent and regular needs assessment by participants React flexible in your planning and moderation on appearing needs Make sure, that the needs of all are heard and reflected Give participants responsible roles for the group
Free time, party, social activities, seminar room	Defining groups responsible for... the condition of the seminar room, the organizational aspects of a seminar, topical planning, common social activities... Encouraging participants to bring with them things they like (music, instruments, good personal experience from their work, movies), Creating time windows where they could share these with the group.

Elke Heublein

Co-founder of Working Between Cultures. Co-author of Holistic learning. Facilitator since 2004, certified intercultural facilitator (Institute for Intercultural Communikation, LMU München) and trainer (IHK Akademie München/Westerham), adult education (Foundation University Hildesheim). Focus: Cooperation and leadership in heterogenouos teams, higher education, train-the-trainer.

Handbook for Facilitators: Holistic Learning

E. Heublein (ed.), N. Zimmermann (ed.) (2017). Holistic learning. Planning experiential, inspirational and participatory learning processes. Competendo Handbook for Facilitators.