By Robert Chambers
This sourcebook is for all who paintings with others on participatory studying and alter. Written in a spirit of severe mirrored image and severe enjoyable, it offers 21 units of principles and thoughts for facilitators, running shoes, academics and presenters, and an individual who organises and manages workshops, classes, periods and different occasions for sharing and studying principles. It covers themes resembling getting began, seating preparations, forming teams, dealing with huge numbers, aiding one another study, research and suggestions, facing dominators, review and finishing, dealing with horrors, and customary errors.
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Be sensitive to culture, gender and disability. For cultures or contexts where physical contact between women and men is not acceptable there are plenty 21 ENERGIZERS 6 PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS 32 of energizers which do not involve touching. Some energizers marginalize those with disabilities: consult them beforehand and, where you can, give them roles as observers, judges or umpires. ’. Don’t be dismayed. ’ itself wakes up. Shouted louder and louder it gets more and more air into the lungs. And to justify denying the need some may struggle more to stay alert.
Take comfort in the thought that recognizing differences early on can pre-empt and prevent crises later. MEETING, MIXING AND LEARNING WHO WE ARE I do not recommend the exercise where you sit in a circle and go round, each naming all those who have gone before, so that the last person has to name everyone. This terrifies and humiliates those (like me) whose short-term memory is less than brilliant. Start instead with non-threatening activities like the following. In all cases start with participants using big pens to write on sticky labels in bold capitals the name they want to be called.
Indicate roughly how long each encounter should take. For large numbers (eg 100 people) you may need to keep it down to 10–20 seconds or the process may go on too long. Recommend saying the name of the other person (this helps memory). Brief participants to keep moving, and warn them to avoid a queue waiting on the other side to greet them. In India at least, congestion is common when one sequence of women meets another. With a large number, say over 60, appoint one non-participant to stand on each side with the task of (politely) easing traffic jams.