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#Invite a group of 20-40 persons to participate in your Samoan Circle and introduce the controversial issue to be discussed during the session. | #Invite a group of 20-40 persons to participate in your Samoan Circle and introduce the controversial issue to be discussed during the session. |
Revision as of 17:21, 14 September 2009
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Training tool similar to fishbowl but leaderless useful to help a group of people to deal with controversial issues. As with Fishbowl process, participants form two concentric circles; only the ones sitting in the inner circle are allowed to speak, while the rest of the group listens and observes. Attendees composing the inner circle have the task to expose all the different perspectives on the main topic and, therefore, there should be one or two representatives for each point of view present in the group. However, at any time participants from the external circle can join the inner one, simply taking an available seat or standing up behind a chair and waiting for the person sitting on it moving on the external circle. Since the discussion is not guided by a leader, a facilitator should explain the attendees the rules of the process before beginning the session.
Samoan Circle can be used to:
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References
- ↑ www.dse.vic.gov.au (14 Septmebr 2009) www.kstoolkit.org (14 September 2009)