Activities 3.

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Visioning the changes you want to see (90 minutes)

Learning outcomes

- Motivation to act toward sustainable development

- Ability to Identify social development issue to address in community

Summary

How can we make our community a better place to live? What changes would we Iike to see?

Preparation and materials :

Post-It notes, vision table, Power Graph Activity 3.5 page 120.

Approach 1 Stage 1: Reflecting on learning preparing for visioning change.

Refer back to the maps of our communities Wich We made and the need for dialogue and sustainable
development which we identified during Active Citizens Vision Activity 0.5 page 47. Make sure the
changes benefit the community in general Make them upliftlng. Write them down.

1. Give participants 15 minutes to reflect on the outcomes of the exercise: Wall of Greatness Activity 1.6
page 62, Ubuntu Activity 3.10 page 126, Community Mapping Activity 3.1 page 113 and Community
Research Activity 3.15 page 137.

2. Example questions:

- What have I learned about my commumty/ies?

- What works well in my community/ies?

- What are some of the aspirations and hopesl have heard? What could be?
- Capture the outcomes on a flip chart in plenary.

Approach 1 Stage 2 : Identifying the changes we want to see

1. Invite the participant to think as individuals. what are the changes they would like to see in their
community? (What could be?)

2. Now ask participants to form two Circles, an Inner circle and an outer circle. The Inner circle and outer
circle should face one another each pair tells each other the change that they would like to see in their
communities/nations and why. After two minutes the outer pair moves around and the exercise is
repeated. After everyone has moved around four to five times then draw the group together in plenary.

3. Ask each participant to consider "What did you hear? What kind of changes did people want to make?
Did you hear any Similar to your own? What were the reasons? Ask the group whether there are any key
messages/ideas which are emerging from the group.

Debrief

- We can now explore Which changes we want to work towards In groups. The intention is to see if there
are changes where group members can work together to plan and deliver social action.

- Linking back to the community mapping exercise and who decides? Think about how different changes
you want to see would affect the different groups that make up the community.

- We can also think about how to work with communities so that they can vision the changes they want
to see.

Activity 3.19