junior branch12 months. 6 activities.

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IntroductionWelcome to the final Stand Up activity. Rather than going out with a

big bang style, complex activity, this step is simple and short. Perfect for running before a meeting, for example.

Activity’s Goal:The goal is to give the participants a chance to see why it’s important to explicitly agree on the criteria of a good decision before making one, and how that is applicable in conflict resolution as well.

Knowledge• Knowledge that different people will have different

criteria for what makes a “good” solution

Attitudes• Willingness to encourage open discussion about

different parties’ criteria for “good” solutions to conflicts

Skills• Ability to effectively discuss criteria for a mutually

beneficial solution to conflict

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The ActivityEstimated time: 60 minutesMaximum number of participants: 40

Materials• One pen per participant• One half sized (A5) paper per participant.

Please re-use paper if possible, you only need one side. • A whiteboard or flipchart/big paper

PreparationsTo prepare for this activity you should do the following:• If you want to, place pens and papers on tables, or on the floor for the

groups.

Do: 15 minutes

Divide the pariticipants into groups of 4-5 people

• Give the following instructions: – “You should now draw a hat, you have complete artistic freedom.”

• After approx. 3 minutes, tell them that they have 1 minute left.• After approx. 1 more minute, tell them to put down their pens.• Give the following instructions:

– “Now, order your hats from 1-5 (or 4) as a group. Everyone has to agree on the final order.”

• The participants will probably ask a lot of questions about the criteria, how to decide, etc. Just repeat the same instruction.

When everyone is done ordering/ranking their hats, you’ll move on to the reflect part.

Reflect: 20 minutes

Ask the participants to sit so that they can listen to everyone.

• Ask the groups to show their hat labeled “1”, and ask them to share why they chose it.

• Write the criteria/”Why’s” on a whiteboard or flipchart.

Generalize: 20 minutes

When all the groups are done, tell them the following:

“When deciding what the best hat was, you had to know the criteria for what “best” means, and I didn’t give you that information. So you either conciously or subconciously made two decisions:

1. What should be the criteria? and 2. What hat fits those criteria best?“

Immediately ask the participants to discuss the following question within their groups. (for up to 10 minutes)

• “Why do you think this is important to be aware of in terms of conflict resolution?”

After discussing in their groups, return to a full group discussion and let them share what they’ve talked about. Keep going until you run out of time, or there’s nothing more to be said.

Thank the participants for participating, and wrap up the activity!

Tips for the Facilitators

Explanation of Stand Up

There are many answers to the questions asked in this activity, and the discussion can go pretty much anywhere. We recommend letting it go where the participants take it, you never know what you will learn!

Practice what you preach! After a while in the full group discussion, ask if the participants think there’s a better way to talk/share than what you’re currently doing. Share your facilitating power! ;)

Switch it up! You don’t have to draw hats, it could be anything as long as it’s something everyone can draw, and that can be judged from different criteria. Dogs, cars, bags, etc. Be creative!

Optional: After the generalise part, do a second round of ranking and see if the discussions change.

Optional: Let the groups change hats before ranking them, to create a more neutral relationship to all hats. Afterwards, discuss if it would have been harder to order the hats if your own was one of them.

After the activity is over, please remember to present Stand Up to the group, so they can understand the educational purpose of the project and the content area of the year.

For example: Stand up aims to create educational activities for CISV’s 2015 content area, Conflict and Resolution. There will be six ready-to-run activities released over the course of the year for chapters, JBs, schools, and anyone else who wants to run them!

Take pictures!

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Stand Up is an international project, part of the global movement that is Junior Branch. Let us know whenever you use a Stand Up activity in your chapter, or at any other event by taking pictures and sending them to: standup@ijb.cisv.org. Please also let us know how many people participated. These pictures will be shared on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cisvstandup

The Stand Up team is always looking for feedback about the activities. Send any pictures you have to standup@ijb.cisv.org, along with the number of participants who completed the activity.

We would appreciate if facilitators filled out this short evaluation: http://goo.gl/S2kABi