1. Don’t perch- take flight An interactive workshop using the medium of story telling, conversations and origami; attempting to make children understand the importance of speaking out when they see something bad happening around them and actively executing their opinions. by Pushpi Bagchi VCD301

3. Workshop Format Creating a fictional scenario: an example where being passive to things happening around eventually harms you. Story telling Role play: imagining yourself as a character in the story and talking about your reactions to the group Origami: creating a three dimensional object to represent your character in the story. Group Discussions: relating the fictional scenario to our every day lives.

4. Story This telephone line is a resting spot. These birds have sat here for years. They look down upon earth and see things happening. Things that are good and bad. They see things that many others don’t. Yet no one knows what they think as they perch on the line- silently. One day a child was being quite bad, taking aim haphazardly with his new sling shot. He broke a window. Crushed some plants. Hit a dog that was taking a nap. The birds watched from above in silence. Suddenly a stone went quite high and hit a bird on the line. Its left wing bent, how will she fly again? All the birds were shocked! How could this have happened? They could not stay silent anymore.

10. For my next workshop and for taking this workshop further I should focus on the motivational aspect of my project rather than the methodology. That is getting children to speak out and act when they feel something “wrong” is happening and not concentrate on discussing ways in which one can intervene. Yet at the same time the flow of discussions are not very predictable and should be kept open.