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3 Identifying Your Communities

Participants also explore how they feel in relation to certain communities or how they exclude certain people from communities they are a part of.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), Pairs, Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Network Design This relationship mapping exercise strengthens Network Design, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Participants also explore how they feel in relation to certain communities or how they exclude certain people from communities they are a part of.
  2. 5.0 1 rating(s) average rating is 5 out of 5, based on 1 votes, rating(s) Learning Goals Develop a nuanced understanding of community.
  3. Critically reflect on practices of inclusion and exclusion.
  4. Provide participants with, or if doing this online ask them to have with them, drawing materials, like paper, pens, pencils, and/or markers, if they would like to draw during the activity.
  5. Organize participants into small groups (3-4 ppl).
  6. Begin by introducing the learning goals of this activity.
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Prompts to use +

Critically reflect on practices of inclusion and exclusion.

Provide participants with, or if doing this online ask them to have with them, drawing materials, like paper, pens, pencils, and/or markers, if they would like to draw during the activity.

Organize participants into small groups (3-4 ppl).

Begin by introducing the learning goals of this activity.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: 3 Identifying Your Communities. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Critically reflect on practices of inclusion and exclusion.; Provide participants with, or if doing this online ask them to have with them, drawing materials, like paper, pens, pencils, and/or markers, if they would like to draw during the activity.; Organize participants into small groups (3-4 ppl).; Begin by introducing the learning goals of this activity.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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