Hi Everyone! Well it's the morning of day three of workshops now as I write this. Yesterday I attended the workshop on non-discrimination and respect for diversity. This was a really interesting workshop. It was facilitated using the new Youth as Agents of Behavioural Change (YABC) programme developed by the Principles and Values team at the IFRC office in Geneva.This programme was developed along with Youth members from 40 national societies, and is an interactive, non-cognitive way of teaching the principles and values of Red Cross Red Crescent. Using different games and discussion group exercis
es, we explored key issues relating to diversity, and how we can make the most of this. Lots of countries face issues around discrimination, and although we are doing pretty well in NZ, we still have more discrimination than we should. This workshop really helped me to think of new ways of apporaching this issue, particularly in working with youth.
es, we explored key issues relating to diversity, and how we can make the most of this. Lots of countries face issues around discrimination, and although we are doing pretty well in NZ, we still have more discrimination than we should. This workshop really helped me to think of new ways of apporaching this issue, particularly in working with youth.In the exercises we dealt with issues around refugees, people with disabilities as well as other types of diversity. I think these are such important types of diversity to consider. In NZRC diversity is a big challenge for us, and not always something we do very well, we really need to think about how we can change this and increase the impact we have.
The YABC method
of conveying information and changing attitudes is really effective - it feels like you are just playing games, but by integrating this with discussion about the feelings and thoughts that come out of the games, youth are able to see the consequences of actions and learn about the way we can convey respect through the things we do, and how we live our lives. This programme has some wonderful tools in it that I think would be very valuable for New Zealand Red Cross; ones that I am fully planning on utilising once I get back to NZ.
of conveying information and changing attitudes is really effective - it feels like you are just playing games, but by integrating this with discussion about the feelings and thoughts that come out of the games, youth are able to see the consequences of actions and learn about the way we can convey respect through the things we do, and how we live our lives. This programme has some wonderful tools in it that I think would be very valuable for New Zealand Red Cross; ones that I am fully planning on utilising once I get back to NZ.To conclude the workshop, we had the chance to put our ideas and what we had learnt from the day into art. Below are some of the key messages from the day:
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