Participatory Workshops: A Sourcebook of 21 Sets of Ideas by Robert Chambers

By Robert Chambers

This sourcebook is for all who paintings with others on participatory studying and alter. Written in a spirit of severe mirrored image and severe enjoyable, it offers 21 units of rules and techniques for facilitators, running shoes, academics and presenters, and someone who organises and manages workshops, classes, sessions and different occasions for sharing and studying principles. It covers subject matters similar to getting begun, seating preparations, forming teams, coping with huge numbers, supporting one another research, research and suggestions, facing dominators, overview and finishing, dealing with horrors, and customary errors.

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If these are on cards or Post-its, let them be grouped and summarized. Straight plenary discussion. Small groups discuss and report. Individual reflection and writing, followed by sharing in small groups, leading to plenary reports. Prioritize and select which objectives to address and which to postpone. If you can summarize a consensus, well and good. If not, options include: • • • • leave differences unresolved; list the different objectives and let them coexist; plan part of the programme to have parallel sessions and topics to accommodate the differences; let a small group form to discuss further and make recommendations.

Arrange these by subject. Write up the heading for each to stand out boldly in another colour or form. It is often best to deal with these at intervals during a workshop rather than let them accumulate towards the end. Participants can be invited to pick issues that they will handle. Or groups can form, discuss and present back. Even so, there may be questions and issues left over where participants would like an input from the facilitator, trainer or teacher. The ideal may still be to deal with these in a participatory way.

Even so, there may be questions and issues left over where participants would like an input from the facilitator, trainer or teacher. The ideal may still be to deal with these in a participatory way. But time may be against you. This is perilous. It puts you in the position of the person who is meant to know, while others do not. There are dangers of preaching and prattling on and on. The end of a participatory workshop is not a time to pontificate. It is a time to be focused, succinct and forward-looking [see 13:19].

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