Action Planning

Topics: Climate resistance

Age: 8+ Group size: 4-30 Duration: 1–1.5 hours

Materials:

Paper Pens

Introduction:

This activity invites people to use creative and fun ideas to to solve problems and create political campaigns. It is good for groups that are beginning to think about concrete actions.

Step by step instructions:

1. First have everybody write down 3 separate things on 3 different coloured pieces of paper: (1) A place (2) A problem (3) An object Encourage to participants to be as creative and silly as they like!

2. Then divide the group into small groups of around 3-5

3. Each group gets one of each category, and has just 3 minutes to come up with a way if solving or thematising the problem they have, in the place, with the object. 4. Play another 2-4 rounds

5. End this phase with a discussion about people’s experiences of such actions and creative ideas, whether the exercise was difficult for them, and if any of the solutions might provide useful real-life inspiration (40 mins)

6. The next phase then sees the groups working on a concrete political campaign/intervention on the topics you’ve been working on.

7. The groups present their ideas, and the educators facilitate a discussion about the practicality of the actions

Online adaptation

Use a tool to gather people’s contributions or people can send them to a facilitator in a private chat who then distributes them to the groups.

Tips and variations

- If you would like to focus more on practical planning, you can ask participants to name places, problems and objects from their real lives