Trainers’ Toolkit – Collage of Associations

	Exercise nr 2: Collage of associations
Duration	10-15 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
Goal of the exercise	Checking participants’ knowledge, beliefs and perceptions; first, basic thoughts before you go deeper into the subject of your meeting.
Group size	10-15 participants
Hashtags	#engagement #collage #visual #webApp
Apps	Prepare a Padlet (https://padlet.com/)  or another app where photos and images can be uploaded together (f.e. Miro, Mural, Gslides or Jamboard)
Materials	n/a
Exercise agenda	Ask your participants to find on the web an image or photo that they associate with the topic you will be discussing, for example: if your topic is professional burnout – what kind of images come to your mind when thinking burnout – find one. Ask participants to download the selected image to their computer desktop and place it in a shared document such as a Padlet application or similar. Give participants a minute to look at the collage they have created together.In the end, ask each person to comment briefly on a joint creation as a collage: 1 word/1 phrase or 1 sentence.
Possible modifications	You can also explain and comment on their piece as part of a larger whole, but we recommend asking them to comment on the collage as a result of the joint group work. You can also use the exercise for the formation of the shared definition from the associations they gathered together, and write the definition as a title of the padlet you used.
Credits	Compiled by Fundacja Culture Shock for TRENDSS – Transnational Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills (https://trendss.eu/)Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Co-founded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union