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Culture Repair Projects

> Researching a Scenario Activity

> Preparing the Facilitation Plan

The Fine Print

Abbreviations

PW = Planning Worksheet

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Culture Repair Projects

The Culture Repair Project asks you to analyze one of the assigned historical records of Asian practice, paying attention the interaction of the three elements of culture. You then draw on what you learned to write and/or draw a set of instructions that could be used to facilitate the similar activity described in the relevant scenario. You have three opportunities to complete a project, one for each unit; the two highest scores count towards your grade.

Goal & Overview of the Report

As you review the available scenario activity options and think about which to chose for the Culture Repair Projects, keep in mind the goal of the people who are consulting you, as per the releveant scenario:

  • in Unit 1a, the City Repair staff wants to initiate a practice that reinforces the social web of the neighbors involved in it.
  • in Unit 1b, the staff wants to draw on relationships between people in that social web to find practices that people will want o perpetuate through ongoing participation.
  • in Unit 2a, the City Repair staff wants to initiate a group practice that will deepen the reflection of young adults.
  • in Unit 2b, the staff wants to nurture reflection that strengthens young adults' engagement in and commitment to some regular practice.
  • in Unit 3a, Rakeesha wants to find a form of religious reflection that strengthens the social web of people engaged in it.
  • in Unit 3b, Huang is looking for a career-related community that supports meaningful reflection of some kind.

Once you choose a scenario, scenario activity and corresponding historical record for a given unit, you will complete the following steps on the way to writing and/or drawing your facilitation plan:

Step I: Research the chosen scenario activity, using the Planning Worksheet I (MS Word/PDF). This activity must correspond to the historical record analyzed in Step II.

Step II: Planning Worksheet II (PDF/MS Word), annotate (or concept map) the historical record of the Asian practice that corresponds to your scenario activity (Step I). This requires reading the source three times; highlighting a different element of culture with each pass; and integrating details from slides, videos & EB articles.

Step III: Fill out Planning Worksheet III (PW III —> PDF/MS Word) to identify lessons from the historical record that you can use to adapt the scenario activity.

Step IV: Have someone read PW I - III (Steps I - III) & fill out the  Peer Review pages including at the end of PW III. Then fill out your portion of the Peer Review at the end.

Step V: Using PW I -III (Steps I - III) and comments gathered from your reviewer (Step IV),
create your Facilitation Plan:

   *EITHER* a poster or series of sketches;

   *OR* a set of prose instructions;

   *OR* a narrative describing yourself or someone facilitating the practice with participants.

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