time, etc. • Encourage participants to discuss and explain their suggestions. You may need to rephrase their suggestions to make them more clear, and check with all participants that everyone agrees before putting it down on the paper. • To maintain a positive vibe, try and word the ground rules in a positive way, such as by avoiding “no” statements • Post the ground rules on the wall or a place that everyone can see throughout the training. The facilitator(s) should keep the ground rules up on a wall or somewhere visible during the workshop, and remind everyone of the ground rules every now and then, such as after a break or if you notice that participants have forgotten some rules. Make it clear that more ground rules can be added as the training progresses.
ACTIVITY 1B: Guess Who? (15-20 minutes) Objectives: Getting to know each other, relax participants, ice-breaking Resources: 1 facilitator, 1 box, small pieces of paper (1 each), pens (1 each) Preparation: Arrange participants to sit or stand in a circle Activity: • Give every participant a small piece of paper, and ask them to write down some information about themselves, such as a habit, favourite food, movie, special talent, etc. No one else should see it. • Ask everyone to put their paper in the box and shake it. The box is passed around and each participant pulls one piece of paper from the box. • Invite one participant to read out the information on the paper, and ask everyone to guess who that person is. (No more than 30 seconds per person). • The person who wrote the paper stands up, and says “Hi everyone, I am XXX” loudly. • Repeat until everyone has read out their paper and identified each other.
ACTIVITY 1C: Wind Blows (10 minutes) Objectives: Getting to know each other, relax participants, ice breaking, energize Resources: 1 facilitator, chairs (1 fewer than the number of participants) Preparation: Arrange all the chairs to form a circle facing inward. One participant stands in the middle of the circle. Activity: • The participant in the middle starts by saying a sentence, “Wind blows for everyone who…” (Any characteristic about a person) • Participants who fit the characteristic (see below for examples) must stand up and quickly find a new seat that is more than two chairs away from them. • Participant who is not able to find a vacant seat is the new person who is in the middle. • Some examples for wind blows: • Wind blows for everyone who loves dancing. • Wind blows for everyone who loves chocolate. • Wind blows for everyone who is in a relationship. • Wind blows for everyone who has been to more than three countries before. • Wind blows for everyone who has organized a workshop before.
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