Group Dynamics

To create awareness among the participants, a role play on predation can be organized to show how a spider can kill a Brown Plant Hopper (BPH).

Pesticides are dangerous poisons and therefore should be handled with special care. This role play exercise shows the way how to reduce risks when handling pesticides.

This role play exercise will familiarize the participants with the name of their group and is the starting point for team building in the group.

This role play will make FFS participants understand about the benefit of good seed and what would happen if someone is not aware of producing good healthy seed.

This “River Crossing” exercise explores the roles of facilitators and the roles of participants.

This “Puzzles” exercise shows the negative impact if a group member does not cooperate with the others. It can be used as a starting point for a discussion on working with groups. It shows that the cooperation of each member contributes to the success of the whole team.

Everybody always try to survive. This “Protecting Oneself” exercise shows that people get protective when they are threatened by others in the group.

Each team member has a defined role or function, but they also depend on each other for advice, assistance, etc. This interdependence of team members will be demonstrated by the “Pic Pac Boom” exercise.

This “Parasitization” activity can be used as an icebreaker. It involves the participants in a group activity and it introduces some knowledge on parasitization.

This is the “Nine Dots Game” where you need some creativity to solve a little problem. It can be used as an ice breaker.