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COOPERATIVE DRAWING: TOURISTIC VIEWS
Age group:
13 - 100
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Keywords:
Communication, Cooperation, Intercultural competences.
Time required:
20 minutes Number of people: Minimum 8, maximum 30
Equipment, materials, and space needed:
Paper sheets, colour crayons or markers, one chair per participant. Activity explored and suggested by: Aventura Marão Clube - Portugal
Aim of the method: To develop communication competences, to experience the challenge of interaction when people have different profiles and needs, and to learn about different cooperation styles.
DESCRIPTION
INTRO The facilitator contextualizes the learning moment within the scope of the school, the contents, the educational process and/or the group concerned. The facilitator presents him or herself and gives the group members the opportunity to introduce themselves and share their experiences as well as their expectations.
EXPERIENCE The facilitator asks the participants to form pairs and in each pair nominate participant A and participant B. The facilitator gets all participants A together in one place and participants B in another (inside the room and ouside the room, for instance). The facilitator explains to participants A that their goal is to draw on a sheet of paper how a perfect day with the sun on the beach would be like. He or she then explains to participants B that their goal is to draw on a sheet of paper what a perfect moonlit night would be like in a city with skyscrapers. Both participants A and B are given the instructions that, once they meet their pair, they will not be allowed to speak. The participants get together in the room and the pairs join around one chair, using the sit as a table, or around a table, sitting on the chairs. Each pair is given only one sheet of paper and one marker or crayon. The facilitator informs all participants that they will have 3 minutes to draw and tells them to start. After the 3 minutes, the facilitator tells the participants to stop and to sit back in a circle, with the pairs sitting side by side. The facilitator asks each pair to show their drawing without telling what it was supposed to be.
DEBRIEFING The facilitator asks the participants to share with each other, in the group, what happened, what could they have done differently, how they feel about the experience and how they relate it with real life situations. Finally, the facilitator asks the participants to think about what kind of cooperation styles they observed in the experience and how would they call them if they would use an animal to describe it.
GENERALIZATION AND INPUT: are in a graphic: The facilitator shows the participants what the cooperation styles
