Gender Tech Collective stories
From Gender and Tech Resources
| Title of the tutorial | Creating stories on collective responses |
|---|---|
| Attributions | |
| Kind of learning session | Gender and Tech, Skill sharing |
| Tutorial category | Discussion |
| Duration (hours) | 1 |
| Learning objectives | Constructing a group narrative around security and self care, to encourage participants to think about what collectives or organisations can do in the area of security. |
| Prerequisites | Ideally, the facilitator should have taken part in this exercise at least once, to have an idea of what is expected.
Prepare a whole set of material : colored pencils, cardboards, etc.. to offer to each group if they need it. |
| Methodology | Divide the participants into small groups – 4 or 5 people, and ask them to create a real or fictitious story around security or self care. The format for presentation is a theatre piece, a 'fireside story', a drawing or comic strip – the most important part is that every member of the group is taking part in the storytelling.
Facilitators should encourage participants to ensure agency – we all have our own power, we face risks, but we have responses – and encourage these themes to be used in the stories we tell. Groups are given 45 minutes to come up with a short story to then perform back to the group as a whole. |
| Number of facilitators involved | 1 |
| Technical needs | Creative material : Colored pencils, cardboards, paper, scissors, etc.. |
| Theoretical and on line resources | None |