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--- out_of_the_box:tools:supporting:river_life [2019/10/31 16:37]
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+++ out_of_the_box:tools:supporting:river_life [2019/12/15 11:39] (current)
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-====== The river of life ======
+====== Exploring one's lifepath through the River of Life & the Explicitation Interview ======
 ===== Objectives =====
-**Objective for the trainer :** to allow people with writing difficulties to be less reluctant to the exercise.
+  * Allowing participants to explore their past, focusing on important moments, continuities and breakdowns;
+  * Revealing key moments of their life, which have an impact on their current situation, motivation, choices, beliefs and behaviors;
-**Objective for trainee:** to explore my past through key moments to understand where I am today.
+  * Acknowledging what they learnt from each experience, highlighting their knowledge, know-how, social and soft skills;
+  * Strengthening participants’ active listening skills
+  * Bonding people through an authentic and open talk on their life course.
 ===== Scenario =====
-==== > Step 1 ====
-Ask the person to represent important dates / moments of her life (professional, personal, extra-professional, academic, such as studies, meetings, trips, important decisions ... in the form of drawing / collage of your river of life. (1H)
+**Duration** : 3 hours.
+**> Step 1 : Representing one’s life path**
+(1 hour 15 minutes)
+{{:out_of_the_box:tools:supporting:river_of_life.jpg?300 |}}Ask the participants to represent their **life path** in the form of a **collage**. Make sure you have a lot of old magazines so that the trainees can look for images and words in them as symbols of important dates / moments of their life (either professional or academic nor personal, such as studies, meetings, trips, important decisions…).
+Invite them to reveal both **continuities** and **breakdowns**, **failures** and **successes**, and to reflect on their **impacts** on them (from a personal, a social, or a professional point of view).
+You can help them by showing an example and with some guidance, like:\\
+What are the continuities in your habits, friends, actions? What are the breaks?\\
+What are the events of your life that you consider as failures, as successes, and why?\\
+What are the consequences of those moments in your personal path? In your career?\\
+**> Step 2 : Explicitation Interviews** (inspired by P.Vermesch)
+(40 minutes x 2)
+Invite the participants to gather by pair, ideally with a person they didn’t share a lot with so far or who they would like to get to know better.
+{{ :out_of_the_box:tools:supporting:river_of_life2.jpg?250| }}For 40 minutes each, they will lead an “explicitation interview” aiming at **revealing** to their partner:
+  * the **patterns** they tend to repeat;
+  * the **subtle or hidden meaning(s)** of the moments / events / stages they drew;
+  * the **impacts** of these events on them;
+  * the **knowledge**, the **know-how** and the **soft skills** they acquired or strengthen thanks to them.
+In practice, **one will talk** and try to dig in his/her own experience, **the other will lead the interview**, asking questions and taking notes. The interviewee will be free to talk about some of his/her experiences or not; the interviewer should pay attention to **respect** the interviewee’s potential **silences**.
+After 40 minutes, they will swap roles : the interviewee will become the interviewer and vice versa.
+Before the exercise starts, introduce the participants to the basics of **active listening** and draw their attention to the fact that the exercise is **not a psychological interview** (even if it may bring up emotions sometimes). The interviewer should **avoid asking "why"** to the interviewee. He/she have to **focus on the facts** and not on the judgment of what happened. This way, he/she will help the interviewee to **acknowledge** the skills that he/she put into practice or acquired from each specific experience he/she had, as well as the **influence each experience had** on him/her.
+To help the participants visualize how it works, provide a few examples of the questions they may ask:\\
+“What are the different stages of your past experiences?”\\
+“Do they have some continuity in them or are they very different one from the other?”\\
+“In each stage, what exactly happened?”\\
+“What did you learn from this moment of your life? How does this influence your actions today?”\\
-The steps : The continuities, the breaks
+Close the session with a **short debrief** in plenary session on how they felt with the exercise.
-The failures, the successes: What are the events of your career which for you constitute failures, successes and in what way? What are the main stages of your journey?
+Then, let them free : the exercise might have been moving and a **break** will be more than welcome.
-==== > Step 2 ====
+===== Material required =====
-In pairs, interview each other about your rivers of life (20 min X 2)
+  * 2 A3 per person
-- What are the common points between these different steps, the divergent points?
+  * Numerous old magazines
-- What do you remember in each of these stages? What did you learn again? About what ? How does this influence your actions today?
+  * 1 pair of scissors + 1 glue stick per person
+  * A4 + pencils to take notes
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