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At the beginning of a seminar start with the needs of participants, institutions and facilitators. Our opportunity is to make the seminar tailored to the participants' and stakeholders' needs and to agree about the common learning experience.
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At the beginning of a seminar or unit, start with the needs of participants, institutions and facilitators. Our opportunity is to make the seminar tailored to the participants' and stakeholders' needs and to agree about the common learning experience.
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Another basic issue is to shape the ground for good collaboration. A space for deep and holistic learning requires trust, transparency and the cooperation of all people involved. This includes the basic rules or working principles, with a collective negotiation of these rules, and as well learning the names through "name games".  
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Another basic issue is to shape the ground for good collaboration. A space for deep and holistic learning requires trust, transparency and the cooperation of all people involved. This includes the basic rules or working principles, with a collective negotiation of these rules, and also learning names through "name games".  
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[[File:Comskills.png | left | 150px]]Cooperative learning encourage participants to speak, to listen and to interact with each other. However, communication can be disturbed from different reasons. But on the other hand, there are tools to increase comprehensibility, to negotiate interests and to deal with conflicts in a constructive way.
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You’ve already learned a lot about your participants by discussing their needs and basic working principles. It is essential to a good working atmosphere that both the trainer and the participants know everyone’s names and the correct pronunciation. The deeper sense behind these name games is that learners may interconnect independently of the teacher, and that they build trust, which is a precondition for deeper experiential learning later on.
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Trainers and participants start the seminar with very different expectations and requirements. Therefore, in addition to a needs assessment, it is also necessary for all the people involved to share their field expertise, their specific interests, and their knowledge at the beginning of the training. It is also important to learn about your group’s learning styles and goals. Tools like Democracy Scrabble illuminate on a topic from many different perspectives. They encourage discussion and help cluster words or aspects as a good introduction to work on a complicated topic. The term “democracy” can be replaced by other rich and meaningful terms such as sustainability, mentoring, gender, government...
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Latest revision as of 13:27, 24 December 2022

Techniques.png
For the successful begin of a learning process, we suggest to keep three standard building blocks in mind. Some needs assessment is suggested, then an activity on personalities, expectations, and expertise. Before starting with more in-depth work, the common principles of cooperation need to be clarified together or made transparent by the facilitator.

Learningprocess.png

Needs & Expectations

At the beginning of a seminar or unit, start with the needs of participants, institutions and facilitators. Our opportunity is to make the seminar tailored to the participants' and stakeholders' needs and to agree about the common learning experience.

Needs
Dynamic Research 4-minutes questionnaire for the beginning
Expectations
Five fingers-expectations


Establishing Good Working Conditions

Another basic issue is to shape the ground for good collaboration. A space for deep and holistic learning requires trust, transparency and the cooperation of all people involved. This includes the basic rules or working principles, with a collective negotiation of these rules, and also learning names through "name games".

Establishing Good Working Conditions
Inclusion and Accommodation of Special Needs
Trustbuilding: What facilitators can do
Tips for Increasing the Participants' Levels of Ownership and Involvement

Three basic rules
Code of Conduct
The new planet
Methods for Trustbuilding
The Nail Game
Secret Mission
Storytelling Dice
Energizers

Checklist: Possible ways to activate participants




Name Games and Getting to Know Each Other

You’ve already learned a lot about your participants by discussing their needs and basic working principles. It is essential to a good working atmosphere that both the trainer and the participants know everyone’s names and the correct pronunciation. The deeper sense behind these name games is that learners may interconnect independently of the teacher, and that they build trust, which is a precondition for deeper experiential learning later on.

Games for Getting to Know Each Other
Name Games
First Evening
Creative Hunting
Cultural Shock
Time Machine – updates in group



Personalities, Beliefs, and Expertise of Your Participants

Trainers and participants start the seminar with very different expectations and requirements. Therefore, in addition to a needs assessment, it is also necessary for all the people involved to share their field expertise, their specific interests, and their knowledge at the beginning of the training. It is also important to learn about your group’s learning styles and goals. Tools like Democracy Scrabble illuminate on a topic from many different perspectives. They encourage discussion and help cluster words or aspects as a good introduction to work on a complicated topic. The term “democracy” can be replaced by other rich and meaningful terms such as sustainability, mentoring, gender, government...

A Wealth of Experience
Battle of values
Build me up
Concept Map
Collegial Inspiration
Collection of ideas and problems
Democracy Circle
Democracy Scrabble
Found and Lost
Gotta play ball!
The Dilemma Exercise
Human Rights Quiz
Open Tables
Orbiting values
Sociometry
Storytelling Dice
Value Auction
What is Democracy...
Word Cloud




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