Ice-breaking excercises
1.
Speed dating:
Divide the group in
pairs. Tell them that
they will spend the next 5 minutes talking with a partner.
When the time’s up the pairs will split up in order to make new pairs.
The goal is to have different conversations about awareness campaign, sharing different ideas to
change people’s behaviour about the incitement to hatred in discourses. At the
end of the game there will a sharing moment in which the group will talk about
what came up during the speed dates.
2. The Carousel:
The participants are divided into smaller groups which have to walk around the room previously set up with different stations. Each group has to stop for 5 minutes at each station where they will find big papers with questions about disinformation and fake news. They will share thoughts and will write down an answer with a coloured marker that identified that specific group (ex. Red for the group n.1, yellow for the n. 2 etc.). At the end of the carousel the entire group will read the answers on the papers and will discuss them. The goal is to create a stimulating debate within smaller and bigger groups, in order to understand others’ opinions and point of views in a pacific environment using a positive communication approach.
3. The props ice-breaker:
Divide the group into smaller groups. The participants will have to think about a recent situation where they had to cope with hatred discourses. After having told the little story (what happened, how they managed it etc.), the other participants will define a speech strategy to learn how to behave and speak in that particular situation in order to spread positive messages.