Goals of the exercise: To see the prejudices and the exclusion, how they affect us and how we can solve them.
Age of the participants: 14 – 17 years old
Number of participants: 30
Duration: 40 minutes
Materials: none
collection: no materials
Handling conflicts
Goal of the exercise: To show different types of solving problems, different ways of handling with a conflict situation. Through examples of everyday life, the participants should show how they would react in a particular situation and in the same time what the other participants think about that reaction.
Age of the participants: 14-17 years old
Number of the participants: 18
Duration of the exercise: 1 hour
Materials: None
In or out
Goals of the exercise: A discussion about affiliation and exclusion; to experience consequences of exclusion; to recognize one’s behavior in situations when they’re excluded; to experience how belonging to an exclusionary group brings positive emotions; to recognize that being the excluded minority hurts much more than the majority thinks
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participants: 12+
Duration of the exercise: 45 minutes
Materials: none
Who has power over me?
Goals of the exercise: To show that we tend to follow what we have learned and that sometimes it is difficult to question these learnings, such as gender stereotypes.
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participants: 10 to 30
Duration of the exercise: 10 minutes
Materials: none
Forum theatre of Augusto Boal
Goals of the exercise: Encourage participants to look at the situation from a different perspective and let them think of different solutions.
Age of the participants: 13+
Number of participants: 6-8
Duration of the exercise: at least 60 minutes, up to 120 minutes
Materials: none
Chance to Change 