I can, You can, We can

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The 23rd and 24th of January we were in Compañía de Maria college in Santiago de Compostela with Tamara, Alberto, Angelillo and me (Nicolas) to work for a sensitization campaign about overcoming.
Alberto did an activity about group positioning for pupils: primary’s children (12 years old) who we receive for 2 days. In this activity, they have to work in team to overcome a situation through a story about a boat which sank, there is a contamination in the sea, we can’t swim, you can only across using the remains of the boat.
The general objective of this dynamic is cooperation, all the participants have to cross a field with hoops, benches and mats (the remains) catching letters in the floor and forming the word SUPERACION (overcoming). But they have more difficulties who they must overcome in order to succeed in this activity. For example there is not enough material for everybody if they are not coordinated. Besides they have to help people who have physical difficulties in their own team, for example people who need wheelchair or others with the hands attached or blind people.
To increase the level of difficulty in this dynamic Tamara and me could help them but only in our language : Serbian and French. They didn’t understand the Serbian but a little bit the French language and gradually we went forward until the end.
The 3 classes needed 55 minutes to finish the game, and even they hadn’t the possibility to overcome it whereas when we explain the solution of the dynamic, they discovered by working with cooperation they need 10 minutes to succeed in this activity.
Finally we had a little evaluation of the dynamic to know how to overcome the cooperation each one each each other. What were the people who were trying to help? Why? How did they feel the people who had already cross the field and couldn’t go back to help the others with weaknesses? This moment was the most important of this activity, because thanks to this evaluation the group had the ability to analyze what they did and how is possible to overcome in order to obtain better results. 


 Nicolas

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