Trainers’ Toolkit – First step

	Exercise nr 24: First step
Duration	10-15 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	The aim of the exercise is to encourage participants to use the knowledge and skills acquired during the training as quickly as possible.
Group size	5- 20
Hashtags	#summary #followup #evaluation
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	The Mentimeter application can be used writing materials – a notebook and a pen – will be useful in one of the variants
Exercise agenda	A simple exercise that will allow participants to reflect on how to use the acquired knowledge, experience and inspiration after the workshop. For the trainer, it also can be a form of evaluation, checking what impact the workshop had on the participants. The first step is an exercise often used in coaching. This simple method is a kind of declaration made in front of the workshop group as well as in front of yourself. Thinking about the first step – a small action, allows participants to imagine it, plan it and then do it. At the end of your workshop, before you say goodbye to the participants, ask each person to think about how he/she will use the acquired knowledge in the first few days after the workshop.  Ask people attending the workshop a question: What will be your first step to apply this knowledge gained during this workshop – what exactly will you do? Add some questions to help them to create a concrete plan for their first step: – When are you going to do it? – Who can help you do it? – How much time do you need to do this thing? Ask each person to describe their first step in a chatbox on the platform you are working on. Then ask one person to read all the declarations (of course you can read the declarations too or each person can read his/her declaration). Try to appreciate all the ideas, it can boost the energy of the participants! In this exercise it is essential to share the ideas and read them out loud. Emphasize that whether participants take their first steps according to the declarations is their individual decision.
Possible modifications	This task can be done in several other ways: – you can use the Mentimeter application – after completing the task, a nice slide will be left which you can email to everyone. – you can ask each person to write down their first step in their notebook or on their paper and then show this note to the webcam.
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-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union