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HANADI (MANUAL) 87 Activity: What would you change? Looking for alternatives Depending on the group you have, choose two or three conflict situations (by your- self or with the group) that are relevant for the students (you can even take them from the exercise about reciprocity and connect this activity with that exercise). Then, prepare a short theater play (a scene of a few minutes) representing this con- flict and a potential solution (if the solution is not a good solution, or if it introduces new problems, it can be even more interesting). This play (scene) can be prepared and acted out by the students, or can also be prepared before by the facilitator of the session, and then acted by the students, or even by other people (other facilitators/ teachers, students from other classes), The play/scene is performed in front of the class. When it is finished, the facilitator asks the class what they think about it, and what they would change in order to have a different end (better if possible). If the suggested changes are related to the attitude or the behaviour of one of the characters, then the facilitator will ask the person su- ggesting those changes to take part in the theater play. The facilitator then asks the group to perform the play again, now incorporating the new participant and his/ her perspective. Then the discussion can be guided using the discussion plan about alternatives. This activity is inspired by the Forum Theater (We recommend looking for further information about the Forum Theater in order to carry out the activity)16 Discussion Plan: Alternatives 1. Do you generally find it easy or difficult to find alternatives to an idea or a plan? 2. Do you find it easy or hard to accept an alternative to your idea that comes from someone else? 3. You had planned on doing something that is now not possible because of chan- ged circumstances… but you have found an alternative. Is it possible that the alternative enda up being better than the original plan, or is it always worse be- cause it was not the first option? 4. When someone has an idea you had never considered, how do you normally feel towards this new idea? Epilogue: Back home Leading Idea 1: Girl/Boy Friendship You can find resources on the concept of “friendship” in the manual to Christian, episode 1, leading idea 2 “Friendship/Comradeship”; and in the manual to Tina and Amir, episode 3, leading idea 4, discussion plan on “Friends-friendship”; and also in the manual to Ella, episode 7, leading idea 1 and exercise on “Friendship”. 16 An example of a company doing it in english http://forum-theatre.com/) is the forum theater inspired by Augusto Boal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal