Duration: around 10 min.
Group size: Any
Materials: chairs (number should be equal to the number of participants minus 1 chair)
The Facilitator asks the group to make a circle with their chairs and sit down. One participant has no place to seat, therefore he/she stands in the middle and follows the Facilitator’s instructions. The Facilitator explains that the purpose of this game is for the participant in the middle to state „ food, diet, drink preferences” and whoever agrees with the statement needs to change a seat. This is the moment for the participant in the middle to sit on the chair freed. The game needs speed and the statements expressed by the participants should be honest and truthful, based on their real „eating habits”.
Example of statements:
„I don’t eat meat”; „I think breakfast is the most important meal”, „Eating sugary products is very unhealthy”, „I don’t eat after 20.00.h”, „I eat only fresh products” etc.
After few rounds of sharing, running and changing places, the Facilitator should sense the right time to stop the game (more or less after 10 min.) before it gets boring for the group. The Facilitator can debrief the energizer by asking some of the following questions:
After having this short discussion, the Facilitator can introduce participants to the subject of this module, which is „Diets”.
Duration: around 30 min.
Group size: around 25 people
Materials: list of diets cut in pieces, 2 envelopes with diet names in one, and diet meanings in the other one, glue sticks, paper
The Facilitator divides participants into smaller groups of 5 people and gives every team 2 envelopes – in 1 there are names of 10 diets and in the other one explanation of them. The task for each team is to find the correct meaning and stick a name with its definition on a paper. Afterwards, the Facilitator can ask some of the following questions:
List of diets and their meaning:
Duration: around 60 – 80 min.
Group size: Any
Materials: magazines with food pictures, shop advertising newspaper (Lidl, Auchan, TESCO), flip charts, crayons, colorful markers, scissors, glue sticks, Appendix 1 (Infographic)
The Facilitator explains to the group that in order to keep a healthy lifestyle a person needs a diet which will include all necessary products, vitamins and minerals. One of the way to ensure this if we supply our bodies with the right dose of nutrition known as „The Food Pyramid”. The Facilitator draws a pyramid which consists of 6 layers and asks participants to brainstorm what products may appear on which layer in their own „food pyramid” – including the real habits of eating. So, the bottom layer characterizes the products participants choose most frequently during the day (5 times) and the top one those which appear only few times per week. The participants must do a self-assessment of their diet routine. The Facilitator asks the group to take flip charts or smaller pieces of paper, markers, shop magazines, crayons etc. and provides them approximately 60 minutes to create their own map. After the pyramids are complete, presented and shortly commented, the Facilitator presents „the correct” one (infographic „The Food Pyramid”) and then asks participants whether and how it differs from their work. The purpose of this task is to make people aware that their „daily eating habits” are far from the „desired ones”, as presented by the Facilitator at the end. This activity can also be a „kick-off” moment for them to make some changes towards healthier diet.
Hints for The Facilitator:
Duration: around 60 min.
Group size: Around 25 people
Materials: bowls with people’s characteristic, computers with Internet access, basic knowledge of Power Point/Prezi/Canva
The Facilitator divides participants into 5 teams. Each team will draw out from the bowl a piece of paper with 1 shortly characterized person. The task of each team is to prepare a presentation (including max. 10 slides) which will involve:
People of the game:
After all presentations are prepared, the groups are asked to present them and then upload them on the web site promoting our project and the Facebook fan page of „Start now”.
Hints for The Facilitator:
After all the activities, the Facilitator puts on the floor DIXIT cards (or other images cards) and asks participants to choose one which would fit to the following sentence: „This image represents for me a healthy habit, because…”. During the round, everybody should share even a brief thought and once everybody had their chance, The Facilitator finishes the workshops.
Printable Dixit cards are attached to this module as Appendix 2.
Duration: around 90 min.
Group size: max. 20 people
Materials: computers with Internet access
This activity can be done with the same workshop group, bowl with cut out diets (the list is below)
The Facilitator divides participants into small groups of 2 or 3 people. Then explains, that none of the existing diet has only positives or negatives impact, so the task of the groups is to find out advantages and disadvantages of one of the worldwide most popular diets and prepare a post for the Facebook fan page of „Start now” about it. Groups will draw out 1 diet and will work on the post for around 1,5 h. They should find interesting pictures, graphics and reliable sources of the information they use. They can prepare an infographic or a poster themselves. The „ready post” with attachments should be sent to The Facilitator at the end of the workshop.
The list of the most popular diets:
Hints for The Facilitator: