Inspiring Action Workshop

Oxfam

Active Global Citizenship Conference 2009

Inspiring Action in Your Community Aims: • Understand who your community are and your capacity to influence • Explore types of actions and methods of effective planning • Develop a group action plan to take back into school • Have increased confidence to undertake action Time 2 mins

3 mins

5mins

12 mins

4 mins

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Introduction- Set out purpose of session, way of getting attention Community- Who are The group stand/sit in a circle with Wool they connected with? one volunteer in the middle. Who can they Students call out examples of influence? groups that are in their community. The person in the centre throws the wool to one person showing the link/ability to influence. They throw it back to the centre person who passes the wool around their body and then throws it to another ‘group’ and so on creating a web. Setting your goalStudents divide into school Large sheet of students start planning groups. Each group writes a goal paper (for map), their campaign to be achieved by December onto post-it notes, pens a post-it note e.g. get 100 friends/peers to take action Which actions? Brainstorm actions considering the Posters showing different types displayed on kinds of actions posters/flip charts (3 mins) on walls (community, Each group reads through the lifestyle, political) action cards and determines whether they fulfill the criteria Action/activity including whether they are exciting cards (including for their community, doable.etc. some blank ones) Select three actions/activities maximum (from action cards & own ideas to complete before December.. (6 mins)

Challenges

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Plot onto road map/calendarwhen will you do each (3 mins) Bricks & Hammers- whole class create brick wall of likely challenges. Groups then create hammers to break the bricks.

Brick wall & hammer cards

Time 25 mins

Topic Create road map for activity

Activity Work up campaigns plan- groups discuss how to make sure they reach their goal. Answering the key questions they fill in their campaigns plan on the wall with different coloured paper representing different types of resources etc.

Resources Things to think about criteria sheet (from 1st session) Four different coloured papers (resources- what, where, who?, help?)

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the one’s we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Barak Obama