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Dividing the Spoils/Alpha-beta Parternership

These two activities will help participants understand how culture affects our worldview and our behaviors, particularly in terms of rewards and negotiations. 

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Duck or Rabbit

Through the use of optical illusions, this activity will help participants understand the concept of paradoxes and the opposable mind and alternate mentally between two contradictory ideas.

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Tookit "Building Bridges for a more Inclusive Rural Europe

This toolkit provides several different types of activities that promote inclusivity. 

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Flower Power

This activity uses art to help participants "develop understanding about the connection between human needs, personal well-being and human rights; develop skills to reflect and analyse, and foster solidarity and respect for diversity" (Council of Europe).

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Go Bananas!

This activity helps participants "recognize they have automatic ways of doing things they do not think about, and also recognize the power of diversity and appreciate that there is more than one valid way to accomplish something" (Pineda, 2012, p. 69).

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Guess the Emotion

This activity uses "emotion cards" to help participants to articulate definitions of their own and others' emotions, practice empathy, better understand their team members’ reactions, and identify ways in which cultural differences affect emotional expression.

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Language Envelopes

This activity helps participants to identify the personal nature of creating categories, identify some differences in verbal communication and misunderstandings that can occur, and acquire partial understanding of the complexity of elements important to another culture.

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Snowball

This activity enables participants to develop greater awareness of others' backgrounds and describe their own background in an inclusive manner.

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Disagree Better: Empathy Gym

This activity is based on Jamil Zaki’s concept of the empathy gym, which he discusses on the podcasts Hidden Brain and Clear + Vivid. In those episodes, Zaki describes how he developed empathic skills as a child of divorced parents with two very different sets of values and priorities. He also discusses the positive and negative aspects of empathy in addition to providing some techniques that anyone could use to increase their level of empathy. This activity adapts one of those techniques, which he calls “Disagree Better,” and provides participants with tools for better understanding and empathizing with individuals who they may disagree with.

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Language Envelopes

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I Am From Poems/I Am Poems

The “Where I’m From” project, presented by the Kentucky Arts Council and Kentucky Poet Laureate 2015-2016 George Ella Lyon, ended December 31, 2016. The arts council is no longer accepting submissions, but continues to maintain the project page and poems that were submitted by the project deadline.

A national “I Am From” project, presented by George Ella Lyon and writer/educator Julie Landsman, collects “I Am From” poems, photos, audio, video and other artistic expressions. For more information and to submit your interpretation of “I Am From,” go to https://iamfromproject.com.

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Guess the Emotion

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Tookit "Building Bridges for a more Inclusive Rural Europe

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Empathy not Sympathy

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Dividing the Spoils/Alpha-beta Parternership

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Cultural Worldview Frameworks

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