MAINSTREAMING TOOLS — ACTIVITIES

Don’t Look at the Back!

Author: Association of Renaissance Institute
Hatice Yildirim • yldrm.htc@gmail.com
Issues addressed Discrimination, Identity, Prejudice
Complexity 3
Group size 15-25
Estimated duration 60 min.
Objectives to raise awareness about the problems which the groups with fewer opportunities face in society
Related thematic chapters

Preparations

Role papers should be printed in this phase.

Instructions

Step 1 — 5 min.
The participants are asked to be in a circle. The facilitators say that there is a community and in this community there are people from different backgrounds, religions, ethnicities, sexual orientations and so on.. There is a bazaar and all the people in the city are invited to participate there. The day is arriving and everyone goes to the bazaar.
Step 2 — 15 min.
Then facilitators put the prepared papers which refer different identities on their back. In the papers are written their roles. The participants don’t know what their roles are but they can see what the others’ roles. The roles are as below:
  • Lesbian sex worker
  • Muslim gay man
  • Arab Jewish
  • Leonardo di Caprio
  • Transsexual grandmother
  • Black woman
  • Afghan refugee
  • Salafi man
  • Ex-prisoner
  • Homosexual imam
  • A young men with wheelchair
  • Pregnant teenager
  • Homeless
  • Nerd
  • Business woman
  • 30 years old blind person
  • Female Casanova
2 additional roles just in case:
  • Buddhist monk
  • Young woman with HIV
They are asked to act according to the role of others in the perspective of their own societies.

Debriefing

Then the participants are invited to the circle and the debriefing starts:
  • Who do you think are you?
  • How was your reaction towards others?
  • How was the reaction of others towards you?
How did you feel?

Tested outcomes

This method was tested in ToT on Human Rights in Hammamet, Tunusia on 6 May 2016.

Tips for facilitation

Be aware that most important part is plenary. Ask as much as questions to participants.

Potential follow-up

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Needed resources

20 papers (A4) Tape Pen

Sources

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