8

THE WORKSHOP

On Tuesday 8th July Tiz Nairac Kez and myself ran a workshop for the 6 croydonians that showed up. 

Before hand I was extremely nervous that no one or a very small amount of people would show up making it very awkward, and it was when they entered the room. It was still pretty tense when Simon was explaining a little bit about the project but it started to warm up in the first game. Everyone there was actually very friendly and open and they did enjoy a lot of the games we did. It was a diverse age group and because there was six people, not too many or not too little we managed to elicit lots of information from the via a spoken interview that we recorded. 

The attributes that helped me during that workshop were being confident and approachable because it helped create a friendly laid back atmosphere. However I did feel towards the end perhaps I was being too laid back and too informal as I kept going off track. 

I think too improve on what we did we would have needed to have a better workshop plan as we thought what we had written was sufficient but when it came to five minutes before the workshop we realised we had no idea what we were doing. And during the workshop we realised that some exercises didn't work where they were and we had to move them mid workshop which was a little messy. But overall I do think it went well. 

The workshop ending up in this structure. 

• Introduction by Simon.
• Introduction of workshop leaders by Angelica.
• Truth and Lies Game- led by Nairac because Lily wasn't in to do the invention game   and I felt that it was too soon to do the knot game because it was quite physical. 
• Splat- led by Kez to get the energy up. 
• Columbian Hypnosis- Led by Tiz to split into pairs and work with someone that you haven't in the group before. 
• CopyCat Game- led by Kez to work on concentration and working as a team. 
• Knot Game- led by Angelica, turned out to be quite funny and not too uncomfortable
• Tea and Toilet Break
• Small group interview on Croydon.
• End.