A 60-card deck to reflect on our interior condition for democratic culture.
Learning to show up in the world of education with democratic values in mind
How you show up in the world matters. This is why Cards for Democracy are an important tool today. They help us develop our interior condition to support democratic environment in our life and work.
Ready to use the Cards for Democracy? We offer some suggestions for you in the form of loose frameworks in which you can develop your creativity, as an educator, facilitator, or trainer.
These frameworks – we call them “Scenarios” – are intended to help you find inspiration to create your own activities.
L2C will share activities for download regularly in the C4D community of practice: Cards for Democracy Facebook group and on its media pages.
For an Introduction to the Cards for Democracy click here.
“Communication is arguably the most important skill for a teacher.”
Prof. Dr. Jón Torfi Jónasson, keynote of the Pestalozzi Summer School 2015
You can use the Cards for Democracy as a starting point for your lesson design. When you, as a trainer or teacher, have a clear understanding of what you want for the group, you will be better able to communicate that clearly to learners. Cards for Democracy can help here to develop that clear understanding.
Using the cards will give you an opportunity to reflect upon:
and thus help you be a convincing role model and “walking the talk”. The Cards for Democracy offer a flexible resource for exploring attitudes, values and actions in both, yourself and the individuals in your learning group. They help explore where your participants stand and what it will take to further their development.
In sum,
Thus, learning about how we communicate, increases our attention and awareness about communication and invites us to explore what can be done to enhance our listening skills so as to avoid misunderstandings and also practice the ability to really connect to the people we communicate with.
Here is a suggestion for an activity that develops such aims.
Teachers learning with the Cards for Democracy
Before you engage your participants in the activity, you may want to start wondering what it takes for communication to succeed. Perhaps you want to think back to a situation where communication failed, where you felt misunderstood, either because you failed to express yourself in a way that was easy to understand or because the other person was not listening. What would have helped to improve the situation? How easy or challenging is it for you to listen attentively to the people in your life?
Are you willing to commit to
Committing will set your subconscious towards these goals and put you on the fast track to developing these skills.
Participants will have experienced the difference between intent and interpretation of a message
Participants will have practiced rephrasing and inquiring to verify their understanding
Participants will practice expressing their thoughts clearly
Participants will reflect on reasons for misunderstandings and develop strategies to improve both listening and communication skills.
Create groups of 3 participants and ask them to choose their letter A, B, or C. Participants A and B are placed back to back. Participant A must describe an image that participant B will then draw on a paper. Participant C acts as a silent observer who does not intervene.
Participants describe which elements are similar and which are different. With the help of the observer, they talk about what misunderstandings were present, what strategies were helpful or not.
This time: Participant A is the observer, Participant B describes the picture, Participant C draws the picture.
Participants describe which elements are similar and which are different. With the help of the observer, they talk about what misunderstandings were present, what strategies were helpful or not. They also compare if the result is closer to the original image than in the first round.
This time: Participant A is the observer, Participant B describes the picture, and participant C draws the picture.
Explain that the aim of the session was to develop competences in the area of communication and especially around these components:
By downloading Scenario 6 – Designing lesson plans and training sessions, you will have a PDF resource to keep and consult for your activities.
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In this article, we talk about what we mean by Collective – the new form chosen by L2C – and how you can join it.
Learn to Change’s members held a General Assembly in fall 2022, in which the decision was taken to transform the association into a less formal, and more agile entity. Therefore, we will change status, going from an ‘organization’ to a less formal entity that we name “The collective”
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