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Participating Agreements

Participating Agreements

Co-creating a safe, respectful group culture
Shared agreements ensure that participants decide on the forms of communication, boundaries, and culture that is appropriate for their group, meeting or workshop.

What is
Participating Agreements
about ?

What is
Participating Agreements
about ?
What is this Basic Tool about ?

Participating agreements are a set of directions for how each participant aims to behave in a workshop, course, meeting etc. They are co-created by everyone in the room to reflect the kind of culture that participants seek in order for the group culture to feel safe, respectful and encouraging for all involved. The details will vary from group to group although there are key similarities that any group of people desire.

When and why is this Basic Tool used ?

Participating agreements can be used in any context where a group of people will be working together. A weekend workshop, for example, may want to draft shared agreements that include respectful communication, confidentiality, articulating boundaries, speaking one at a time etc. A community group meeting may wish to include agreements about equality, listening to all ideas, allowing the facilitator to close discussions for timekeeping etc. There are no rules about what to include - it will be a group code of conduct that all participants agree to. A facilitator or any group member can refer back to the agreements if difficulties or challenging communication arises.

Audience

Audience

Is participant experience relevant for Participating Agreements ?

It's okay if participants haven't seen the inside of a classroom in years

Requirements

Requirements
How Stationary
Stationary necessary, at least in parts
Location requirements

Not specifically

Run Through

Run Through
Pre Exercise
Do's and don'ts
Do's

Check in beforehand so that all voices in the room have spoken - you are more likely to get wider participation if the initial ice has broken
Use a flipchart to write all the suggestions up - big enough for everyone to read, and stick it somewhere visible afterwards
Encourage quieter voices
Clarify that all participants agree before moving on to the next agenda item - either go around the room, making eye contact with each participant while asking if anyone does not agree, or you can ask participants to physically sign the sheet in agreement
It can be a helpful start to provide the group with suggested agreements from your experience as facilitator - most groups find it easier to get going if there is already a template to build on. Discussion can then focus on any controversial topics and it speeds up the overall process

Don'ts

Use an old agreement without asking if anything new needs to be added
Presume that there’s enough like-mindedness in the room that there will be no difficulties, disagreements or disrespectful communication - we can all have our less than perfect moments!
Think that something has been agreed just because somebody mentioned it, look for wider buy-in

Online

Online
Potential for Solely Online & Blended Learning

This exercise can be done online or blended using any collaborative platform that participants can view simultaneously.

Material for

MaterialMaterial : Flip Chart / White Board, Marker Pens
Participating Agreements
project

project

IN WHICH THIS method WAS DEVELOPED
 
 
 
BLAST
BLAST
ERASMUS +

ERASMUS +

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union. Find more information about the program and its goals here: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/.

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Participating Agreements
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