The Response Quadrant
Please lay out the response quadrant that you prepared before the workshop. This will remain in one place throughout the workshop so that people can add their thoughts to it. Ideally, it will be on a table or board that people can gather around, but if that’s not an option you can put it on the floor or pin it to a wall.
Lay out some pens and paper
Organise a selection of pens, coloured post-it notes (or pieces of scrap paper are fine) and notepaper to be available ready for the participants. Please use a different colour for each exercise so that the analysis team can match the responses to the specific questions.
Plan how to use the space
If your group is larger than 10, you will need to divide people into groups of around 5 for some exercises. Have a look at the space and think about how this will work best.
Workshop Overview
The main workshop components
This workshop is designed to explain why these conversations are happening and to begin exploring people’s views on what is important, together with their hopes, fears and intentions for the future.
Time: 2 hours
Modules included: 1,2,3
Overall the goal is to answer 3 questions:
The questionnaire responses and in-workshop discussions will provide rich, comparable data for the Central Team to analyse and feedback to the Scottish Government.
Please ensure that the following are sent back to the Central Team:
Sections to deliver
The workshop is divided into 7 sections
Welcome the group. Let them know that for the next two hours you are going to work through some questions with each other. During that time you will be guiding between the full group and smaller break-out groups to make space for everyone to speak.
Your job is a time keeper and to read out the questions to the room - in a nutshell that's it. Keep people to time, explain the exercises as you go and watch the magic of a community in action unfold.
Over a period of 15 minutes people will partner up with three different people to answer three different questions. Ask people to form their first pair and start the sequence:
We suggest that you base this on the From/To Table in the Framing & Contents Section, but please feel free to interpret it using your own experiences. The key point is that we will be communicating the outputs from the workshops to the Scottish Government to feed into the National Outcomes Review.
However, please emphasise that if people would like to share their thoughts after the review period they can of course do that via their MSP.
In the Free Tools section will be adding recorded responses from workshop participants explaining why they came, why they felt it was important, etc. As we run new workshops we would like to add more voices to this section so if any of your participants would be willing to do this, please send the recordings (voice notes or videos) to the Central Team and we will upload them.
This module is designed to help process what matters to people and to capture this in the quadrant response format. It is a follow-up to the pre-workshop questionnaire and is broadly based on the same questions, but this time using a more open format.
Introduce the response quadrant and highlight some examples;
N.B. in the test workshops we found that people were very engrossed in the conversations that developed during the first exercise. Although Module 3 builds on Module 2, it is important to help people mentally transition by giving them some warning that it is going to happen and encouraging people to get up and move about.
This module is designed as an open conversation in small groups.
Fear: ‘I am frightened that people will become very aggressive if prices keep rising and there is not enough food to go around’.
Response: ‘what if we start using empty space to create community gardens......what if we start speaking about how this might happen and what we could do to support each other’......’what if we campaign for our supermarkets to stock more locally produced food’.
Spend 15 minutes helping people to make sense of what has come up for them during the workshop.
Give everyone 5 minutes to write down some thoughts in response to the following question - What are you walking away with after today’s session?
Please ask participants to add these thoughts to the main workshop quadrant.
Thank everyone for coming and let them know the following:
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