You, your institution or school and your participants have different preferences and expectations regarding the common learning process. Planning is the art of considering the diversity of stakeholders around a learning and the diversity within a group in all its qualities, while ensuring that all of its parts gain from it.
Imagine your participants’ needs are represented by a hand with five fingers. Each finger stands for a different type of need: 1. Social, 2. Physical,
3. Intellectual, 4.Emotional and 5. Spiritual. In your seminar there should be a space for covering all five needs.
The checklist helps you to analyze your plan if its fitting with its content and methodologically to the diverse needs of your participants.
We gain more efficiency, transparency and flexibility when making a distinction between the absolute prior goals and the methods we use on the way to achieve these goals.
This is our concrete proposal, how you might start planning a workshop with a goal-content-method matrix.
The Case Study shows, how organizing a small local project can lead to the development of skills, competencies and knowledge in the organizers and the target group. Including a template for your training.
Empowerment is a democratic, respectful and motivating attitude which facilitators share with their participants. This sharing takes place through our conscious reflection of certain didactical principles in planning and conducting a training.
Using language is using power. Sharing power and empowering participants linguistical implies to reflect the language and materials you use and to apply it in a diversity-aware way.
It's not enough to say something, it is as well important, how you say it. In a call for application, in working texts in reports or promotion texts for public audiences we represent our values, and culture - as well as our stereotypes, presumptions or limitations. Therefore we want to motivate you, to use language precisely.
Specific Aspects
If we want to encourage the learners to work with and for the communities to initiate the social change, it is good to know the basics of the planning of the community work. Here the characteristics of the phases of planning community work.
