What Can We Do?
Materials: Flipchart paper, markers Work in four mixed groups of about five participants each. The task is to discuss what they could do to reduce discrimination against women and against...
What Bothers Me About Us Is…
Exercise description 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...
Wall Newspaper: Discrimination
Possible subjects: Examples of Discrimination in Our Societies Groups of People Discriminated in Our Societies
Squares, Dots
Materials: Coloured stickers of different colours (squares, dots, etc.) Exercise description Every participant gets a sticker on his/her forehead without seeing what the sticker is. For example, seven...
Prejudice Barometer
Exercise description The barometer method Suggested statements for the barometer: I have prejudice. I have the right to my prejudice. Prejudice leads to discrimination.
Prejudice and Discrimination
The objectives of the workshop include dealing with prejudices in society, our own prejudices and the prejudices of others in relation to us. It aims to encourage the deconstruction of...
Prejudice against Me and My Prejudice
Exercise description Divide the participants into small groups to discuss two topics. Prejudice against me: Each of the participants describes to their group an experience when someone treated them with...
Prejudice about Ethnic/National Groups
Materials: Flipchart paper, markers Exercise description Step One (prejudice about your own group): The participants split into groups according to ethnicity. Each group should write on the wall newspaper...
My Foreign Friend
Materials: Flipchart paper, markers, felt-tip pens Exercise description Determine categories beforehand and write them out as titles on flipchart papers/wall newspapers. Examples of categories: my friend from another region, my...
Musical Chairs
Materials: Chairs, a music-playing device, flipchart paper, marker, multicoloured paper Exercise description A few days beforehand, the participants are split into four groups. The training team makes a list...
Multicoloured Eyes
Type of exercise: Multicoloured barometer Exercise description Materials: Coloured paper, papers with statements prepared beforehand A few sets of papers are prepared beforehand, each with a statement/sentence. The papers should...
Magazine Analysis
Materials: Daily newspapers, weeklies, magazines Exercise description Split into three groups: one “female”, one “male” and one “mixed”. Work in groups. Instructions for the working groups: “Your task is...
Insider/Outsider*
Exercise description The participants split into two groups of roughly the same size. One group should be asked to leave the room until they are invited back inside. The trainer...
How I Became a Man/Woman
Materials: Copies of the questionnaire Exercise description The participants split into smaller groups of four or five. Their task is to discuss in their small groups: “How I became a...
Enemy images 2
Split into three smaller groups: The participants discuss: Who are the enemies in our societies, who are the “others”? What are images of the enemy used for? Who constructs these...
Enemy images
Materials: Flipchart paper, markers Exercise description Split into groups according to the participant’s home country/region. Step 1. The participants are instructed to list the groups their environment presented as enemies...
Discrimination against Women and Discrimination against Men
Materials: Flipchart paper, markers Exercise description The participants split into four groups: two of just men and two of just women. One men’s and one women’s group (independently) write...
Chair Statues About Power
Materials: 6–7 chairs Exercise description Exercise description Instructions: The task is to use six or seven chairs to construct a statue that symbolises power. After the first person constructs...
Box
Materials: Flipchart paper, markers Exercise description The participants split into men and women. Each group gets a flipchart paper with a rectangle drawn in the middle symbolising the “box”...
Associations: Prejudice and Discrimination
Materials: Post-its, Flipchart paper, pencils Exercise description For this exercise, you need to prepare a dozen terms denoting different social groups. For example: religious persons, soldiers, feminists, fundamentalists, female...
Airplane
Materials: “Lifesavers” made of paper (prepared in advance), large piece of paper, markers Exercise description Prepare lifesavers in advance by cutting them out of a large piece of paper...
A Step Forward
Materials: Cards with descriptions of roles Exercise description Prepare as many cards with roles as there are participants. Randomly hand out the cards to the participants. They are not to...