Reflecting your community workshop plan

Name: Who do we include? Reflecting your community workshop

Participation: 10-20 Leaders (Experienced)

Aim: Inspire and direction for groups to be more inclusive in their communities.

Outcomes:

Help groups to build based on their broader community

Help groups to reflect their own community

Encourage groups to do a positive review and set their own targets for improvement

Time Check Activity Resources

5 minutes Introduction Give the aims and outcomes of the session. Linking the workshop to the Woodcraft principles on inclusion. We make it clear that we’re not here to lay down national policy for Woodcraft Folk, no to argue about national policy, but to learn from each other. We will also set up a parking lot

Woodcraft Principles

Parking lot

25 minutes Case Study Review

The case studies we will look to collect are:

White City from Tom Dunnill

Stroud including disabled young

people

Robin Brown – Training of

volunteer youth workers to work in

a local park.

Hearing Unheard Voices

Music for change

In small groups they will look at the

case studies to pick out the factors

of success and key learning.

Case studies

Flipchart for notes

10 minutes Feedback:

Feedback to the group including a short

version of the case study. They should pull

out the key principles and themes.

10 minutes Groups Examples

This is a chance for those attending to talk

about their experiences of inclusion with

their group. We will record any key themes

or learning. We will aim to turn negative

Flipchart

comments to positive learning.

25 minutes Creation of strategy:

The group will split in half and use the key

principles and themes from the case

studies, the key Follow the Trail principles

and the Strength, Weakness, Opportunity

and Threat model, to create a model or

technique to do a review when they return

to their group, this will have to be quite

broad.

Flipchart

Key Follow the trial standards

SWOT form on flipchart

5 minutes Summary:

Link the workshop back to Follow the Trial

We should sign post them to top tips and

where to find more information.

Using the passport the participants can

reflect on their learning and set actions

Plus target evaluation.

Passport

Link to tips -

http://woodcraft.org.uk/inclusion

Top Tips print out

Notes

Could they use the census to do a review? It can be found online here:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/census/2011/index.html

When reviewing their groups, their leadership might be a barrier so this will have to be

discussed in a sensitive way.