GROUP FACILITATION METHODS

• Have group members read aloud.

• Use drama and role-play.

• Use diagrams, charts, graphs, posters, pictures (visual aids).

• Use an object to make a point i.e. show how the battery in a cell phone is like God’s spirit in us: without it, there is no power.

• Use stories to demonstrate a point.

• Get the group to draw pictures showing a concept or story.

• Get the group involved; have them do something (stand, sit, clap, shout out, stamp feet) when they hear certain words in a passage or story (when they hear the word wind they make noise like the wind, when they hear the word rain, they make noise like rain).

• Write down real life situations on pieces of paper and have each group member pull them out of a hat. Have them say what they would or should do (Your friend picks up some fruit at the market without paying and says you should too – what would you do?).

• Use analogies (Life is like a painting that’s not done yet).

• See through the eyes of each character in a story (In the story about the woman, if I were the woman, I would have felt …).

• Finish the sentence (What I like about this story is … ; What’s hard to understand in this story is … ; I can relate most to the character of xxxx in this story, etc.).

• Use words from current popular songs (How do they relate to a lesson topic? Does the song encourage right or wrong behaviour? etc.).

• For each lesson, ask what the good and bad outcomes would be if the main point of the lesson was or was not applied (For example for self-image: if they remember their value as a person, they won’t have sex before marriage; if they forget their value, they might have sex – and discuss the impact of that).

• Do a word association activity (What comes to mind when you hear the word xxxx?).

• Have a Letters to God box to collect their prayer requests or questions.

• Have group members keep a journal or diary.