Sharing stories

Before you begin

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers.

Taking action

1. This activity is designed to run after you’ve taken some action as part of a community project. 
2. Everyone should think about what the group has done to understand disability and being kind to other people. If people have taken actions since your last meeting, or done anything at home or at school, they could share some ideas.
3. If you have resources people made, or photos and videos of them taking action, you consider sharing them with everyone to use, depending on the permissions in place.
4. Everyone should talk about what it was like to take action and why it was important.
5. Someone should make some notes about the things the groups talk about, or some important words or ideas that you can look at again later.

Create your story

1. Explain that everyone will be making some simple stories to show the different actions everyone took to understand disability and be kind to others.
2. Everyone should take a piece of paper.
3. With the long sides at the top and bottom, draw one horizontal and one vertical line through the middle of the paper to split it into four boxes.
4. Everyone should think about all the different things they’ve done to help include other people, or to show them kindness. It could be something they did individually, as a group, or even something they haven’t done yet, but that would be nice to do in future.
5. Everyone should fill the boxes with writing or drawings to show what they’ve been doing to understand disability, or ideas of things that they could do in the future. Use the ideas or words discussed in the first part of the activity to give everyone some ideas of what they could write. We’ve also included some ideas below.
6. Once everyone has finished, people should find a partner and share their ideas.
7. Invite everyone to share one thing they’ve written or drawn with the whole group. Everyone should choose one thing that they’d like to try to do again at home over the next week.