Kutayib

1.4. Skills awareness raising and dilemma situation

Session Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

  • Enhance skills to manage the clubs effectively.

  • Raise awareness about their role as a club leader and the corresponding tasks.

  • Learn how to set rules in their clubs to support club activities productively.

Duration

03h 50min

Group size

Set by facilitator

Materials needed

Flipchart, handout with schematic tree, pens, pictures of families, post-its

Session Description 

This session encourages self-awareness, ethical thinking, and shared responsibility. Participants reflect on their personal skills, where they come from, and how they can pass them on to others. Through discussions and dilemma-based activities, they explore values, decision-making, and respect for different perspectives. The session concludes with a reflection on self-governance and how youth can take an active role in shaping their clubs and communities.

Duration: 60min

Group size: Think – pair - share

Materials needed: Flipchart, handout with schematic tree, pens, pictures of families, post-its

  • (Alone) The youths look at the illustration of the skills tree (see annex). They take a blank sheet and draw a tree with five fruits and five roots. They indicate the skills in the fruits. They write down in the roots the people they learned these skills from (see annex). They take a photo of their drawing.

  • (in pairs): The youths present their drawing to a partner and exchange their thoughts. They discuss similarities and differences.

  • (alone) The youths think about which skills they would like to pass on to others. They write them down. They also indicate how they would teach these skills.

  • The youths present the skills they want to pass on in a group. They write each skill on a slip of paper and pin it on the wall (or put it on the floor). A discussion about the skills and how they can be taught to others takes place.

Objectives: To be able to describe their own skills, reflect on the origin of these skills and how to pass them on.

*Based on CORE Topics4, Unit 3

Annex

Duration: 30min

Group size: All together guided by facilitator

Materials needed: Flipchart

  • The facilitators ask the youth to describe the methods used in the previous slot

  • The youth describe the methods used and the facilitator collects them on the flipchart.

Objectives: To become aware of facilitation methods and learn to use them.

Duration: 50min

Group size: Think- pair – share, fishbowl discussion

  • Facilitator presents the Heinz dilemma by Lawrence Kohlberg:

A woman was on her deathbed. There was one drug that the doctors said would save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: “No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it.” So, Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's laboratory to steal the drug for his wife. Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?

  • The youths reflect on the reasons for Heinz to steal or not to steal the money individually.

  • The youth exchange their reasons in pairs.

  • Discussion pro and contra stealing the money in a fishbowl discussion.

Other topics for a dilemma situation1

  • Young people may go to the cinema without asking their parents.

  • Musicians may perform on the streets.

  • Old people may remain living with their family.

  • Girls may participate in karate classes.

  • Young people are allowed to drink at the age of 16.

  • Women may ride a bike to work.

  • You and your friend are interested in the same position for a job.

  • Somebody you like asks you to cover/lie for them and you want to help them but you are scared for their safety if something happens to them.

Objectives: 

  • Practice leadership, communication, and adaptability under pressure.

  • Experience how different personalities affect teamwork and problem-solving.

1See Topic 7 in CORE “How I can solve conflicts” (Scan the QR code below)

Duration: 30min

Group size: Full group discussion

Materials needed: Flipchart

  • Facilitator asks the youth on how they determine the rules at their clubs.

  • Discussion on obligations and responsibilities of club leaders and members.

  • Discuss potentials how to enhance the self-governance of the clubs.

Objectives: Know how to set rules for their club.