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Learning Objective
By the end of this activity, participants will be able to articulate the concept that“ information alone does not change behaviour”.
Expected time of activity: 15 minutes
Beforehand
Have the group sit in a circle.
Activity
Have all participants stand in front of their chairs. Introduce the exercise by saying:“ To start this exercise, you all need to stand in front of your chairs. I’ m going to read some statements. If your answer to one of them is‘ no’, you have to sit in your chair. As long as you reply‘ yes’ to the statements, you remain standing. Once you have sat down, you remain seated, even if your answer to subsequent statements is‘ yes’. For example, if the first statement is‘ I get regular medical check-ups’ and you do not have regular medical check-ups, you have to sit down and remain seated.”
Explain two additional rules:“ Sometimes someone has to sit down right away, after the first or second statement. If the order of statements had been different, they might have still been standing. They ask if they can stand up again. But participants may not stand up once they have had to sit down. This might not seem fair, but that is how this exercise works. Also, sometimes someone says, for example,‘ Oh, sure, I get regular medical check-ups. Let’ s see, I think my last one was in 1992!’. We have to decide together how frequent regular is in this exercise, but it must be reasonable: regular is not once every ten years!”