Designing Participatory Workshops
This workshop focuses on designing and facilitating participatory workshops based on dialogue and communication.
Rather than simply presenting knowledge and skills, participatory workshops create opportunities for participants to connect new information with their own thoughts and experiences. Through dialogue and sharing, participants broaden their perspectives and deepen their understanding.
The workshop also includes methods to structure sessions that lead to deeper learning through reflection, along with an action-planning segment to help participants translate their learning into practice after the workshop.
Key Contents
This workshop provides an opportunity to learn and practice how to design participatory workshops for diverse topics and audiences.
Instead of instructor-centered lectures focused on knowledge delivery, it explores essential elements for planning and facilitating workshops grounded in dialogue and communication. Participants will seek ways to design workshops tailored to their specific audiences and contexts.
The sessions are structured to allow participants to experience dialogue-based workshops firsthand. Through these experiences, aspiring planners and facilitators develop the skills needed for dialogue, communication, reflection, and activity planning.
An action-planning session is included, where participants design a workshop they intend to facilitate, linking their learning directly to practical application.
Learning Flow
The workshop consists of understanding participatory workshops, designing them, and action planning.
Participatory Workshop
Participants are guided to explore the essential elements of participatory workshops, where learning is grounded in dialogue, communication, connection, and reflection.
The aim is for participants to first experience what a participatory workshop looks and feels like through model activities that embody its core principles.
Workshop Designing
This session focuses on designing a participant-centered workshop grounded in dialogue, tailored to the learning space you wish to create.
Participants review key steps for structuring core elements into an actual workshop session.
Action Planning
Follow a step-by-step guide to develop your own workshop plan.
After completing individual action plans, participants engage in peer feedback sessions to refine and enhance their designs.