Present your partner Add/remove
Purpose:
The purpose of presenting your partner is to get the workshop participants to know each other.
Tips to include participants who are not able to:
Hear
Sign and a translator can be used as well as writing down the answers.
Speak
Sign and a translator can be used as well as writing down the answers.
Focus
Make only a few simple questions and reduce time discussing.
Think
Make only a few simple questions and extent time discussing
Overview
Input
N/A
Output
Comfort and understanding of each others skills
Complexity
Simple-Moderate
Time
15-30min
Participants
4-10+
Activity
communicating, remembering,
reading*, writing*
*only if notetaking and question ideas comes in use
Step by step:
Divide the participants in groups of two.
Provide pen and paper for note taking for each group.
Ask participant 1 to ask participant 2 about their name and how they can contribute to the workshop, what is their expertise, what are they good at etc (5 min).
Repeat step 3 although switch roles (5 min).
Participant 1 presents participant 2 and vise versa to the rest of the group. All groups should be presented.
When doing this method you should consider:
- If participants have a hard time remembering, give them paper to take notes on
- If participants have a hard time remembering, make them the last one to listen to their partner and the first to present.
- If a participant has a hard time focusing avoid note paper as it can act as a distraction
Materials needed:
- Paper for note taking
- Pens for note taking
- Question ideas page