| Keywords: | Different Opinions; Diversity; Inclusion; Empathy; Tolerance; Creativity |
| Objectives: | Recognising the limits of your tolerance. Seeking ways to change your intolerant behaviour. Encouraging inclusion. Valuing the principles, values and creativity of each person. |
| Target group: | Groups of 20-30 people from the age of 10 years old. No prior knowledge or information is required. |
| Duration: | 40 minutes |
| Methodology step-by-step: | 1. It is important to prepare the material in advance. 2. Ask each participant to take a piece of coloured cardboard in a colour that they don’t like. 3. Using this cardboard, they should design and make a pair of glasses that fit them. 4. Once the glasses have been made, people with the same colour cardboard should group together. They discuss why they don’t like the colour and say which colour they would rather have had. 5. Read from the table below what each colour symbolizes. 6. Explain that each person must assume the behaviour of their colour, indicated in the table, and must plan a birthday party. 7. Share with the group the experience of having that colour and behaving in that way. 8. Discuss what it is like putting yourself in someone else’s place; how you can accept people who are different; what difference it would make to the world if we practised empathy and tolerance. NOTE: do not explain the symbolism of the colours until after everyone has finished making their glasses and have explained why they don’t like the colour. Explain the purpose of the glasses: without realizing it, we are always looking at the world through the glasses of our inner self. Try to put ourselves in the place of other people; put on other glasses from time to time. It is an exercise of communication and socio-cultural integration. |
| Resources needed: | Cardboard in 10 different colours: red, orange, yellow, pink, brown-brown, green, white, blue, purple, black. Scissors Pencils Pencil crayons or felt tips
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| Challenges: | The greatest challenge is to put oneself in the place of those people who may be intolerant. |