Race Course

Objectives:

• To enhance participants' understanding of how certain individuals may be supported or thwarted by cultural expectations to succeed or fail.

• To enhance participants' sense of justice and fairness in making decisions about others.

Activities:

Participants choose faces to place on Race Course. Discuss why they make choices and how people may experience success in life according to choices others make about them.

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 Gender Genius

Objectives:

• To help participants heighten their awareness of gender issues.

• To help participants enhance their sensitivity towards gender issues such as sex discrimination, sexual harassment, gender bias, etc.

Activities:

 In boy/girl pairs, took opposite gender masks and role-played different situations. Discussed male/female power dynamics, relation to life experience, and global realities.

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Age Acrobats

Objectives:

• For participants to become aware of their preconceptions concerning an individual's age in relation to his or her character.

• To heighten participants awareness of ageism and age discrimination

Activities:

Small groups make decisions about (masked) people based on their age; discuss the validity of making those decisions

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Look-A-Like

Objectives:

• For participants to have the opportunity to compare objective and subjective assessments of themselves and others.

• For participants to understand issues involved in "Look-ism."

Activities:

In pairs, participants make assessments of discuss answers.

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Adversity Ad-Lib

Objectives:

• To increase participants awareness of and sensitivity to various mental, physical, and emotional disabilities.

• To enhance participant's sensitivity in their interactions with others with or without disabilities.

• To help participants understand the challenges and stigma facing disabled persons.

Activities:

Participants role play parts of hearing impaired person communicating with a person with a speech disability. Participants discuss the nature of being "different," left out, laughed at, shunned and individual choices for how each person decides to conduct his or her life.

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