{"id":17674,"date":"2019-11-06T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T06:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=17674"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:44:15","slug":"can-we-call-this-a-breakthrough-ashwini-govind-100th-monkey-programme-manager-fsl-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/can-we-call-this-a-breakthrough-ashwini-govind-100th-monkey-programme-manager-fsl-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we call this a Breakthrough? \u2013 Ashwini Govind, 100th Monkey Programme Manager, FSl-India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most of our sessions start with circle\ntime, where the entire group plays energisers or activities in a circle along\nwith the facilitator. Circle games are acclaimed to create inclusion, build\ntrust, safety and togetherness amongst their participants. The circle time is\nfollowed by some purposeful activity, with reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At times during the initial sessions,\nthere will always be those two or few who can\u2019t contain themselves to a space\nin the circle. They are either running from one position in the circle to\nanother, or making faces at their friends, or tickling them, poking them and\nthe many things they do to distract themselves and their friends.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afnan and Amjed, the two 8th<\/sup> graders from Homebegowda Boys High School are like the ones described above. They are always moving in and out of the circle, shifting positions, rocking their friends, to whacking them or throwing pebbles to rockets to get their attention. This frivolous play continues even during the team building activities, too. They are usually not a part of any group, but hop from one group to another, doing one or the other kind of mischief, or meddling with occasional periods of participation in each group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was the 6th<\/sup> session\nrecently, where the class was split into small groups, where they had to build\nthe tallest tower possible with a fixed number of newspapers for each group. Afnan\nand Amjed were involved in their usual roundabout visits to each group passing\ncomments, slapping backs and chasing their friends out and about, inside the\nroom. After a point, I called both of them and asked them to sit in the corner,\nas time-out for 5 minutes. They sat and their naughty eyes scanned the room and\ntheir friends working to build their tower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Five minutes passed with some giggles\nand glares. They were asked to go and join any of the teams. They didn\u2019t, and I\nwas not surprised. But, something unusual happened – they picked up scraps of\npaper fallen on the ground, picked up a water bottle and a paper cup lying down\nin the same room, and sat in the back of the room. They were doing something there.\nI was curious to see what they were up to, but I didn\u2019t get closer because I\ndidn\u2019t want to disturb them. I had never seen them so engaged and involved in\nany activity, so far. Within a couple of minutes, they came with their tower;\nstanding firm with the support of the bottle and plastic cup and placed a beautiful\norigami paper star on the top. I was speechless and smitten by their creativity\nand innovation. I was humbled\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Personally, some interesting learnings\ntranspired to me. I would like to share a few here:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Every child is always motivated. It is in my capacity to find that out and create and cater to their motivation. <\/li>
  2. Not all behaviours are naughty, unruly, mad etc., etc., etc., It is just that the current activity they are involved in is not challenging them enough, or matching their competency or energy. <\/li>
  3. To be open to outcomes and don\u2019t be stuck to fixed, pre-planned outcomes. And, some outcomes always come unplanned and un-thought of. Have an eye for that! They are magical.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I am looking forward to the next\nsessions to see if this was a breakthrough, or just a one-off thing.\nNonetheless, I am open to different outcomes\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Most of our sessions start with circle time, where the entire group plays energisers or activities in a circle along with the facilitator. Circle games are acclaimed to create inclusion, build trust, safety and togetherness amongst their participants. The circle time is followed by some purposeful activity, with reflection. At times during the initial sessions, there will always be those two or few who can\u2019t contain themselves to a space in the circle. They are either running from one position…<\/p>\n

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