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Activity title: Together we grow!

                                     The participants will try to identify and analyze problems and explore
                 Objectives and      potential solutions using design thinking.
                 Learning            The procedure of design thinking has five main steps: 1) Empathize, 2)
                 Outcome
                                     Define, 3) Ideate, 4) Prototype, and 5) Test.
                 Preparation &       Papers (see Annex for the template), pens and post-it notes
                 Materials
                 Recommended
                 Time                60 minutes
                                     Imagine that you are at the “La Tabacalera” and every participant is a
                                     member of the same group and they want to be organized to solve a
                                     problem.
                                     Ask participants to create small teams of 3-4 persons and ask them to
                                     think about a social problem or a professional situation that needs
                                     improvement. They can find something that is important or interesting to
                                     everyone of the team. You can also ask them if they have similar or
                                     different strengths as a group that emphasizes the value of diversity and
                                     complementarity to effective collective action. The groups can be flexible
                                     as participants can change groups if something expresses them more.
                                     Give each group a piece of paper (see Annex for the template), pens and
                                     post-it notes to note their decision.
                                     Try to explain the basic steps of the design thinking process. Then, create
                                     small steps of the procedure and every time participants are asked to
                 Instructions
                                     write down their thoughts:
                                         •  Ask from all groups to brainstorm solutions and encourage them
                                            to find as many alternatives as they can.
                                         •  Ask them also to consider potential stakeholders in relation to the
                                            problem and how they are influenced.
                                         •  Ask them to consider how communities, friends, family and other
                                            networks could help them in implementing the solutions that they
                                            have proposed, and how they can be supported by them.
                                         •  Ask them to consider if collective action has a key role to play in
                                            addressing a solution to the problem and if it could be a pathway
                                            for a positive social change.
                                     After having agreed to what procedure they should follow to solve their
                                     problem, ask them to share it with the others. If groups have similar
                                     problems and similar solutions, they can create a bigger group altogether,
                                     if they want to, emphasizing the idea of a collaborative decision-making
                                     activity and support.





                                                 Project 2019-1-BG01-KA204_062299
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