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Story-telling session
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Description
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Name of the session
Share your story!
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Session objectives
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MATERIALS/
RESOURCES
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General INFORMATION
This session is designed to support participants to focus on the memorable moments of their workcamps experience, to find the common ups in volunteering and even prepare them to share these experiences with a wider audience (their circle of influence) and to engage them in further volunteering.
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Pre-session CHECKLIST
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Step-by-step IMPLEMENTATION
Reflection - Action replay (10-15 mins)
Participants will be invited for a challenging team exercise to re-enact (re-play) some events of their workcamp as if a video of the activity is being replayed. Just as on TV, the action is played back to replay an event or memorable moments or peak times to debrief more thoroughly. It brings out humor and honesty; it provides opportunities for leadership, interviewing and commentating.
Give a real or dummy microphone (e.g. pen) to a volunteering participant and ask her/him to interview another volunteer.
“You can ask questions from any point of the workcamp:
💻Virtual version: Ask participants to check their names in the online meeting and rename it how they would like to be called. Asked them to switch off their camera and ask for a volunteer to start the interview. The volunteer can ask any other participant, who should switch on the camera while speaking. This case the interviewer and interviewee get in the hotspot and more attention.
Hero’s Journey (60 mins)
10’ Debrief the activity for the participants:
“Have you heard about the Hero’s Journey? If yes, what?
It allows us to build, develop, and shape destiny. The myth of the hero symbolizes not only the struggles of self-empowerment of the individual but also the struggle of culture in nature, the struggle of order, good, justice and enlightenment over chaos, disorder, evil and barbarity.
The main stages are:
You may share one of your stories as an example, or remind participants for a movie (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Star Wars (1977), The Matrix (1999), Spider-Man (2002), The Lion King (1994) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) and grow through briefly about the phases.
30’ Ask participants to “Follow the journey and create your own story, where you are the hero, who goes through a workcamp. Write, draw or make any kind of visual (newspaper cuts, printed pictures, etc.) to present your story for the others by using the main steps of monomyth.”
You may give out the Hero’s Journey handout in the attachment (1 page / participant). Give them ca. 20-30 mins to create their own visual and ask them to be prepared to present it.
15-20’ Depending on the number of participants you may facilitate
💻Virtual version: Prepare a Google Jamboard, one page for every participant with the Hero’s Journey handout or empty and ask them to create their journey there. Invite them to add own photos as well.
Brainstorm multimedia campaign ideas (15-30 mins)
Ask participants to think over and write each idea separately on a post-it about “How to promote workcamp participation for other young people?” or “How to raise awareness about the advantages of workcamp participation for young people?”
Give participants e.g. 5 minutes to think and write their ideas, then ask them one-by-one to bring it to a flipchart and post it there. Facilitate the collection and sorting, to see which ideas appear several times and point out the ones with the biggest influence.
💻Virtual version: Continues to use the Google Jamboard, where participants can write their virtual post-it and sort them there.
Multimedia outputs (60-90 mins)
Create groups of 4-6 participants and ask them to design a campaign to promote work camp participation. It can be anything they brainstormed in the previous exercise or even a testimony, photobook, video stories, interviews, roleplays, animation, posters, etc.
Formulate the groups and ask the team to write their storyboard/ script or draft/sketch, then create the visual outputs ready to use in online media. Give the teams 30-45 mins for the design process.
At the end make a showcase, ask each team to present their outputs in front of the full group. You may organize a challenge by asking them to place their outputs in a different part of the room (on the wall) and when all teams showed their idea, ask the participants to go to their favorite artwork (which they think could have the biggest effect) and this could give an order of the ideas.
Finally, celebrate all the works and thanks for the participation.
💻Virtual version: Invite participants in smaller break-out rooms and open them a shared google doc where they can create the storyboard, or let them use the tool they would like to. At the end they should be able to present their idea with screen sharing.
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REVIEW & DEBRIEFING
Once the session is done, ask participants how it was to see ourselves as hero’s. What was surprising from their own journey or from others? Is there anything they see differently now then during or right after the workcamp? How was it to work on awareness raising actions with others? How can they be an ambassador for international volunteerings?
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TARGET GROUP size & specifics
10-30 participants
workcamp participants, leaders
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DURATION
120-150 minutes
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TO DO List
& Deadlines
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