Exercise description Instructions: Use the available materials to make a collage about “Who am I? From where do I draw the strength to be who I am?” Time for working: 40 minutes The collages are presented in plenary.

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Exercise description

The hot seats method

The person sitting in the hot seat in the middle discusses the topic: When my national identity affected my life.

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The participants split into same-gender pairs. The topic is “What bothers me about us women/men is…” First one person speaks (for about two minutes) and the other just listens. Then the roles reverse.

Discussion in the plenary

Suggested questions for the discussion:

• Who felt uncomfortable doing this exercise? Why?
• What did you not like about it?
• How did you feel about what your partner was saying?
• How would you feel about sharing the details of the conversation with a member of the other group?

An extension of the exercise

After the exchange in pairs, the participants find a partner of the opposite gender and repeat the exercise. Additional questions for discussion in the plenary: “Was it easier to talk with a member of your own group or of the other group? In the second part of the exercise, talking to a member of the other group, did you change what you said in the first part of the exercise?”

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Exercise description

The participants are given copies of the worksheet with the following questions:

• Three things I like
• Three things I don’t like ͳ Three things we like
• Three things we don’t like
• What makes me different from the rest of the small group?

The participants work individually for the first 5 to 10 minutes, in silence, answering the first two questions. Then they get into groups of three. First they discuss in their small groups what they wrote during individual work, and then they answer the remaining questions together.

The worksheet for printing on A4 paper is available for downloading here.

Evaluation

Suggested questions to evaluate the exercise:

How easy was this task?

What was most difficult? Why?

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1. Three things that I have in common with the rest of the group;
2. Three things that I have in common with some of the group, but not with others;
3. Three things that make me different from the rest of the group.

The participants are told right away that they will be discussing their answers in pairs and that what they say in pairs will not be discussed in the plenary.

When the questionnaires have been filled out, the participants split into pairs for discussion (time: 10 minutes).

The worksheet for printing on A4 paper is available for downloading here.

Evaluation

Suggested questions to evaluate the exercise:

What was it like?

What was easy, difficult, interesting?

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After the time is up, they switch places: persons A move one place clockwise and persons B one place in the opposite direction, thereby forming new discussion groups of three. They rotate for each new discussion question.

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Materials: Geographic map of the former Yugoslavia, Europe or the world

Alternative version of the exercise On the geographic map, mark the places the participants are from beforehand. The task of the participants is to go to the map and mark all the places they are connected with, explaining the connections (so that all “their” places are connected with a dotted line).

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Printout of the questionnaire for all the participants.

Exercise description

All participants are given a copy of the questionnaire. The trainer asks the participants to think back and answer the questions with concrete examples whenever possible (time: 15 minutes).

The following questions are included in the questionnaire.

1.    When was the first time you discovered that what nationality you are makes a difference in the former Yugoslavia?

2.    Were there times when you felt superior or inferior because of your nationality?

3.    Did you ever wish you were of a different nationality from the former Yugoslavia?

4.    Were you ever jealous of another nationality from the former Yugoslavia?

5.    Did you ever feel shame or guilt because of your nationality?

6.    Were you ever angry with your own side because of the way they spoke about people of a different nationality?

7.    How do you feel now about what you are?

The participants are told right away that they will be discussing their answers in pairs and that what they say in pairs will not be discussed in the plenary.

When the questionnaires have been filled out, the participants split into pairs and exchange their experiences and thoughts (time: 20 minutes).

The questionnaire for  printing on A4 paper, prepared for being filled out, is available for downloading here

Evaluation

Suggested questions to evaluate the exercise: How did you feel during this exercise?

What kinds of questions cropped up?

What similarities and differences did you find while working in pairs?

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Exercise description

Everyone gets a paper with a circle drawn on it. The task is to make an identity “pie-chart”. In addition to national identity, choose five more significant identities to include in the pie-chart.

Colour in the pie- chart slices so that different colours represent different identities and write what each colour means next to the diagram. Time for work: about 10 minutes.

When the time is up, everyone briefly presents their diagram in plenary.

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