Facilitation Presentation

1. A ‘LivingValues’ Movement
Facilitation
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2. Overview
Facilitation is a process where the facilitator and the participants
go through a journey where:
• An ambience of freedom and trust is created through a strong
bond
• Tools like video clips, stories, group activities etc. are used to
provide insights and inspire/ motivate
• Debrief sessions follow with thought provoking posers to
enable creative thinking and connect with the theme
• Sessions are open-ended – there is no conclusion as to what is
right/ wrong
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3. Process
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4. Facilitation
• Journey of facilitator and participants
• No authority in the session
• Joyous, learning, exploratory, informal, interactive
• Non-judgmental, open ambience – free from
• Like-dislikes
• Rights-wrongs
• Prejudices, biases
• Notions, opinions
• Conclusion:
• Each one can have own (different) understanding
• One draws one’s own conclusions – more sustaining
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5. Facilitator
• Is a friend who creates a strong bond with participants
• Believes that all are innately good
• Is a co-learner in the journey
• Intends to become a better individual – than change others
• Poses the right questions – with a curiosity to know, learn
• Prepares for the sessions but is spontaneous, creative
• Does not impose own views, opinions, judgments, conclusions
• Focuses on positives – people, situations
• Is a good listener
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6. Tools
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7. Ice-breakers
Begin with ice-breakers
involving everyone, to create a
free ambience and build a bond
• All to breath 5 times, debrief on awareness
and connect with theme
• How many squares are there in the adjacent
figure?
• Count numbers in 1 minute, repeat with a
target
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8. Situations
Present situations that relate to
and connect with daily life
• The people in your society are about to cut down the old tree in the compound to
build a car park
• The auto driver demands Rs. 20 more than the actual amount to be paid. This has
been happening time and again
• You find a Rs. 100 note on the pavement
• Your mother has made your favourite dish which she rarely makes. Just then, your
friends come home uninvited for lunch
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9. Role plays
Present real-life
personalities, professions, even
ts, incidents
• Dignity of labour – different professions
• Academic excellence and humaneness
• Contribution of nature and environment
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10. Group activities
Provide props – learning
through activities
• Magic square – create groups, blindfold participants, throw in a rope to each group
and they have to form a square
• Super structure – director, runner, builder with tangram
• Howzzat – passing number of balls with everyone having to touch
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11. Video clips
Show inspirational video
clips, incidents and thought-
provoking speeches
• Boy gives chocolate – S08.13
• Elevator music – S07.07
• Father asking about sparrow – S10.05
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12. Stories
Narrate
elevating, contemporary
stories with pauses at critical
intervals to elicit participants
thoughts
• Blue ribbon – S07.02
• Stench of hatred – S07.10
• Share the good corn – S08.10
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13. Depictions
Exhibit thematic depictions and
allow messages to get
internalised
• Behind the meal
• Challenges in society
• Micro to macro
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14. Presentations (PPTs)
Show presentations and arouse
curiosity with pauses to trigger
interactive discussions
• The car garage – S07.12
• The Brooklyn bridge – S08.08
• Eddy – S09.13
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15. Games
Play games for fun, bonding
and spin-off learning
• Hooray! - Form a circle, count from 1, say “hooray” instead of 7, its multiples and
numbers ending with 7
• Chinese whispers
• Hurdle – guide and follower (blind-folded), obstacles placed along the way
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16. Audio tracks
Play meaningful, peppy songs;
follow-up with group singing
• Imagine
• Another day in paradise
• Heal the world
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17. Debrief
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18. Overview
• Debrief is an open discussion wherein the facilitator poses
open-ended (non-directional, non-conclusive) questions
based on the tool used
• The posers provoke thought and are aimed at:
• Exploring the messages in the tool
• Understanding the relevance in day-to-day life
• Chalking out a plan of action to apply learnings in real life
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19. Examples
• What was the video about?
• How did you feel when you saw the video?
• What is sharing?
• How do you feel when someone gives you something?
• Is it possible to share everything?
• What are the things that you can share?
• With whom can you share?
• Is this practical in day-to-day life?
• Would you do anything differently in future after seeing the
video?
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20. Learnings
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21. Collateral learnings
Ability to listen to others – being patient to present own
views
Apart from the To be open, free and non-judgmental in approach
learnings related to the
particular theme or Creative, spontaneous thinking – thinking differently/ out-
topic being of-the-box
discussed, many
collateral Confidence, perseverance to present perspectives
(undercurrent)
learnings take place
Firm (in own convictions) and flexible (towards others’
along the way opinions)
Accommodate, respect and appreciate others’ perspectives
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22. THANK YOU
Contact
Narayanan PK | narayanan.pk@vset.org | +91 9845390141
Ramchandran A | ram.a@vset.org | +91 9379449036
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