FEBRUARY WEEKEND [Saturday February 11th]

WORKSHOP 1: GENDER EQUALITY
Gender equality activity to promote awareness of gender diversity.

Participants were given dictionary descriptions of men and women and asked to depict them 

in collage with countries of origin as a personal background.

The titles were, Male, Female, Non-Binary and Transgender.

The people photos were put on the wall for everyone to seek and find the identity of their

personality. 

WORKSHOP 2: DISPLACED PEOPLE

Warmup - walking through the forest activity

Individual exercise - packing your suitcase - choosing 5 things to bring

Group Activity - brainstorm followed by collaborative image making on one part of a displaced person’s journey - leaving/in transit/arriving. Followed by reflection on the images made

Group Activity - action circle to outline personal actions to be taken

Workshop Evaluation - Highlights/ Actions to take/ Challenges or Grey Areas remaining

FEBRUARY WEEKEND [Friday February 10th]

Peer Facilitation Training Weekend

We kicked off the morning with describing how we were feeling using using the weather forecast  metaphor. There was a nice mix of blue sky, mist, fog and rainbows!

Introduced the flow of the weekend:

Split into small groups and completed the A-Z of Facilitation...

This gave us a lot of food for thought in thinking about considerations in facilitation, we developed this on into brainstorming the the values, knowledge & skills of a competent facilitator using the head/ hands/ heart model...

 

Some theoretical concepts:

Jess gave feedback on toolkits, this captures some tips for progressing your toolkit forward...