Activity Overview

This is a great activity that promotes the answering of open questions raised by participants by the use of a “What if” learning style. It prevents the facilitator from answering all questions themself. With this method participants can: 

• close knowledge gaps
• find solutions for personal problems
• imagine themselves using their new knowledge in the future and prepare themselves for obstacles

Objectives

• Let trainees find solutions to their problems themselves.

Materials Needed

• Paper
• Pens

Step By Step Procedures

1. Each participant writes one open question on top of a sheet of paper.
2. Each participant then hands their sheet of the paper to the person on their right (and receives one from their left).
3. They read the question of the sheet they received and writes down an answer or idea they might have come up with and their name for further clarification later on.
4. If the participant has no idea or answer, they hand the sheet to the next person.
5. The participants keep passing the sheets to their right after writing down.
6. The activity ends when everybody has her original sheet back.