Activities

Participants are introduced to the force-field analysis tool: a conflict analysis tool that can be used consider the interaction between a social action and peace and conflict dynamics in the community. By focusing on the overall goal or purpose of their social action, they identify positive forces (peace dynamics) and negative forces (conflict dynamics) that might influence the proposed social action and can adapt their action/activities accordingly.

Module: Module 4 Planning Social Action Duration: 60 minutes Social Development Theme: Social Enterprise Summary Participants work as individuals to identify risks to their social enterprise and then identify ways to overcome them. Learning outcomes Skills in project planning and management – risk analysis. Preparations and materials Post-it notes

Participants reflect on who will be affected by their social enterprise and how they should inform, consult or involve them capturing the ideas in preparation for writing any plan or growing their organisation.

A tool which can support participants to identify the realism in their ideas for social action.

This activity uses the World Café activity approach. It builds skills in project planning and management.

Understand the concept of community and connections between local and global community.

As suggested at the beginning of this module, there are a number of creative tools and techniques that could support participants to explore their communities and look deeper, and with new lenses, at the world they’re living in. One way to do this is through an exercise that turns participants into community journalists, finding out more about the people and the stories that are around them, in order to design and deliver the right kind of social action.

The activity encourages participants to notice what’s new and to see parts of their communities they might not have seen before, or at least see some parts differently. Throughout the toolkit we’re offering participants tools to help reconnect with themselves and the world around them, and to explore how they perceive the communities they’re living in. As a technique, this probably works best in urban areas where the workshop is being delivered in the participants’ own community, but it could be adapted to use the workshop space to represent aspects of the community.

Participants create a shared visual map of their local community, including positives and areas of concern, with broader community engagement if possible. The aim is to help them think more deeply about the community and their connection with it.

The exercise uses image theatre to support participants to identify some of the issues in their communities or the challenges that they’re facing. It looks at what’s happening now and then what the world/community might look like without that problem. It then encourages participants to analyse what needs to happen to move from the current situation (the actual) to the ideal situation. This activity could be used after some community investigating has taken place and once the issues have been identified.