Part of having shared values as a group is sharing them with other people. But most people don’t like being told what to do. A big part of learning to share values is learning to stand in someone else’s shoes.
Participants will:
- Think about Woodcraft values and how they might share them outside of Woodcraft.
- Discuss the values of empathy and tolerance
Participants will develop:
- A greater understanding of the importance of learning from others
Before you start
Print out the situation role plays from Follow the Trail so that you have them ready.
What to do
Ask the participants what they understand by the phrase ‘learning to stand in someone else’s shoes’? What about climbing into someone else’s skin? How would it feel to climb into the skin of a person of different race/gender/nationality/ability/size?
Talk about learning to play somebody else’s instrument, or learning a new song. How does it feel to learn something new? Is trying to understand someone else’s point of view a little like learning a new instrument?
There are some role plays to help children and young people try to resolve issues by putting themselves in
someone else’s shoes. Depending on the size of your group choose one, two or of the role plays. Find a way to share each role play part with each group member, you can always give the same part to more than one person. You could work on each role play as a whole group or divide into smaller groups to each lead on their own role play while others watch and then bring everyone in to discuss the role play.
When the group are finding solutions encourage them to think about the group’s values but also about how other people might feel.