Diversity workshop

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Diversity workshop

• Diversify your programme working with Diversity
  at local level

Peter Stubkjær Andersen 6th Forum on Youth
Programme and Adult Resources Obidos, Portugal,
18 - 22 March 2009
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Diversity workshop

• Aim of the workshop
• to explore how Diversity considerations can be
  taken into account when planning programme and
  activities at the local level.
• Objectives of the Workshop
• Get to know key concepts in working with
  diversity in scouting
• recognize the value of diversity
• be able to start developing activities where
  diversity issues is taken into account

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Schedule for the workshop

• Introduction
• Key concepts of Diversity
• Diversity work in Scouting
• Workshop group tasks
• DO! CHECK!
• Wrap-up

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Introduction of participants

• Please introduce yourself by
• Name
• Country
• Association
• Age
• Religion
• Gender
• Experience in Diversity

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What is Diversity?

• Diversity may refer to
• Multiculturalism, the ideology of including
  people of diverse cultural and religious
  backgrounds
• Diversity (politics), the political and social
  policy of encouraging tolerance for people of
  different backgrounds
• Diversity (business), the business tactic which
  encourages diversity to better serve a
  heterogeneous customer base
• Diversity training, the process of educating
  employees, students or volunteers to function in
  a diverse environment
• Biodiversity, the variation of life forms within
  a given ecosystem
• Diversity scheme, a method for improving the
  reliability of a message signal by using multiple
  communications channels

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What is Diversity in Scouting?

• By Diversity in Scouting we mainly deal with
  cultural diversity (though political use of the
  term is important also)

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Cultural Dimensions
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Why work with Diversity?

• Scouting is open til all the implications of
  this means the you actually have to be open to
  all
• Just open or inviting?
• Recognize the value of Diversity a realisation
  of the fact that diversity creates more
  opportunities
• Realize or celebrate?
• Strategic Priority at world level - Reaching
  out
• Just Strategic or also operational?

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Values of working with Diversity (examples)

• What are they?

• Inspire creativity
• Increase knowledge
• Improve understanding of differences
• Inspire to avoid discrimination
• Increase possible number of members
• Increased leader recruitment groups
• Etc.

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Discrimination

• Discrimination means to treat people according to
  the stereotyped image of a certain group they
  belong to, e.g. treating all Scots as if they
  held on hard to their money. (Def. from Them n
  Us)
• Discrimination the opposite of recognizing the
  value of Diversity and a reason for working
  with Diversity as scouts!

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How to work with Diversity?

• Implementation of Diversity in Youth Programme
• When developing new programme incorporate
  Diversity in all working areas ( Diversified
  activities)
• Supplement on Diversity programme to existing
  programme
• Guidelines on How to work with Diversity at
  local level
• Recruitment
• Diversity of leaders
• Diversity of scout ( mirror the society)

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Who - the regions work on Diversity

• For Youth Programme area
• Developing Guidelines on how to implement
  Diversity issues when developing new programme
• Support the work of the Overture Network
• Run Diversity Round table in autumn 2009
• For Adult Resources area
• Raising awareness of Diversity in recruitment
• For Organisation Development
• Strategic, political, promotional term

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Diversity resources (examples)

• Beyond Barriers (WAGGGS WOSM)
• Them n Us (Translated from Swedish)
• Guidelines on Scouting for children in especially
  difficult circumstances (WOSM)
• Guidelines on Scouting for people with
  disabilities (WOSM)
• All different all equal (European Youth Center)
• UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity

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Workshop group task

• Develop an activity focused on local level that
  takes a specific Diversity issue into account
  according to scenario (ethnicity, gender,
  abilities)
• List considerations and major concerns in working
  with the diversity issue
• List pros and cons in working with this diversity
  issue
• Develop a 3 minute game / activity /situation
  /etc. that deals with the diversity issue (based
  on your considerations and concerns)
• Check the activity with the other participants
• Receive applause and feedback ?

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Scenario 1

• You are a group of local cub scout leaders who
  are planning the coming scout year. You know that
  you after the summer holiday will have 25 cub
  scout in your unit. 5 of these have another
  ethnic background and have been in your country
  for 3-5 years.
• Based on these informations, do the group task.
  You are welcome to make your own further
  assumptions regarding the group -)

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Scenario 2

• You are a group of local scout leaders who are
  planning the coming scout year. You know that you
  after the summer holiday will have 25 explorer
  scout (11-15 years)in your scout unit. 5 of these
  have another gender than majority group of 20
  (you will decide whether the 5 (the minority)
  will be girls or boys).
• Based on these informations, do the group task.
  You are welcome to make your own further
  assumptions regarding the group -)

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Scenario 3

• You are a group of local rover leaders who are
  planning the coming scout year. You know that you
  after the summer holiday will have 10 rovers in
  your unit. 1 of these is wheelchair user and has
  been this since childhood.
• Based on these informations, do the group task.
  You are welcome to make your own further
  assumptions regarding the group -)

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CHECK

• Present (DO/CHECK) your activity for the others
  and receive feedback.
• Afterwards explain your considerations and
  concerns

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Diversity Wrap-up

• IMPACT How can we, as NSO/NSAs assist and
  support our local groups in working with
  diversity?
• How can our local groups support us in working
  with diversity?
• How can the European Scout Region assist and
  support the NSO/NSAs in working with diversity?

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• Thank you for you attention