Active Replay: Clarifying What Happened
Group facilitation methods: Reflection / Dialogue, Sharing Information
Keywords: Awareness, evaluate, re-enact, reflection, review
Identification
Clarifying what happened by
1. keeping everyone in the group informed about what others were doing (especially where a group has split into smaller units during an activity)
2. informing others outside the group about a group event (or possibly just to update the trainer following an independent exercise)
3. reconstructing a distant or complex event (to help people recall and relive the facts and feelings of an event)
This is part of the Active Reviewing suite of methods.
Howto
When the sub groups of a larger group need to share some part of the work they have done while away from the larger groups,.
1. For each team sharing their activity divide the team into two sub groups. One subgroup takes the roles (people, objects, places, etc.) and re-enact what happened or a scene from different angles.
2. The other team members narriate the story of the event or clarify why it happened, how it happened, what the outcomes were and the conclusion.
3. Lead a discussion about the event.
Background
Greenaway, R. (1993). Active reviewing. Retrieved March 2, 2008, from http://reviewing.co.uk/actrev.htm
