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12. Encouraging participation

Ask yourself, “How can I make the material…

• More meaningful and relevant?
• More enjoyable?
• Clearer and more straightforward?
• More specific to the area, culture, practices?
• More inclusive or participatory?
• More varied?
• Immediately useful?
• More closely linked to the changes brought about through iSIKHNAS?”

Lay the right foundation - start getting participation early in the first few minutes of the first day

Use simple tools throughout the course

• take a poll,
• ask for opinions,
• ask for questions, concerns or issues,
• put a different point of view forward and ask for views.
• Do a mini-quiz
• Have a competition between two groups
• Give your role of facilitator to someone so that they can run a session on a subject they are comfortable with
• Break into groups and share the discussion facilitation job around
• Deflect questions back to the group instead of answering them yourself
• Use every participant’s name and ask for direct comment
• Break into groups and then have groups report back, then use that as the basis for discussion.
• Get people standing and moving about, and using the equipment or resources.
• Use good body language that demonstrates the importance of every participant and invites participation
• Use pauses in discussion and during questioning so that it gives people time to digest, build thoughts, draw on evidence and experience, and make arguments.