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In this activity from Técnicas Participativas para la Educación Popular participants form a collective understanding of the most urgent problems they face today and the main strengths or positive factors on which they can draw. The goal is to get the group to form a common understanding of their strategic position at a given point in time. This can be helpful for groups of people involved in different projects, or working in different parts of a project.

The Flow:

This is a game in which the group builds an idea by accepting and adding to the previous idea (yes, and...).

The Flow:
In a circle, small or large group.

• Joker asks the group to think of something good.
• When a player has an idea, they start the play by naming their good thing -- e.g. "A cup of hot coffee."
• Next player adds to it, to make it better -- "A cup of hot coffee on a cold morning."
• Third player adds -- "A cup of hot coffee on a cold morning in the mountains."
• And so on. Continue adding as long as the energy is good.
  

A Japanese card game which presupposes inequality both at the outset and as the game proceeds.

The flow:

The players are divided into five groups:

• the very rich,
• the rich,
• the middle,
• the poor, and
• the poor bastards