“Open Narrating Space” inspired activity

Aims of the practice and description of participants -	The practice is dedicated to members of a specific community such as territorial one, cultural, like-interested community. Knowing each other is not a necessary condition. -	Facilitate shared reflection and development of proposals on some important key issues within the community such as: •	What are the needs of our community? •	What are the resources? •	How can sports activities improve our community?

Resources, Materials needed -	Closed spaces that have the possibility of having several independent and far enough to one another locations. -	The internet and computers for answering online questionnaires and using social media (e.g., Facebook group).

Duration Minimum of 4 hours to a day.

Step-by-step - what has to be done?

This practice takes inspiration by the Open Space Technology in which if a person is discussing a topic and feels he can not be useful, or is not interested, it’s much better to get up and really move (i.e., by using feet) in another group where the person can be most useful and learn more. This method allows an important way to support reflection, synthesis and sharing.

Action 1 - Preparation -	Identification of issues and objectives on which the community intends to work with. This can be accomplished in various ways such as: widespread questionnaire; interviews with community leaders, etc. -	Logistic organization of the activity. -	Educational organization in order to identify and give instructions to the facilitators, prepare the space for carrying out the activities.

Action 2 - Actuation The realization of the Open Narrating Space activity, that includes several steps:

1. Reception, and group building activities 2. group meeting, important to share the alm of the activityles and the methodology used. This step is useful to give insights to understand where are the issues that the community is facing, and on concepts and experiences that can be inspiration to find out possible solutions. 3. Co-construction sharing spaces Participants find several spaces already organized. A space for each work theme. In each space there is a banner with the question-key topic and three columns: -	Personal experiences related to the key question Proposals. -	Operational actions.

Each group has of one or more facilitators Participants are free to move from one topic to another. according to the law of two feet". Whenever a participant intends to speak the following. procedure will follow:

Let's read what has been written and attached to the banner, and let's listen to the raised discussion : -	I reflect, and I write my contributions legibly (in block letters with characters large enough and with markers on post-it), for each of the questions I will use a post it. -	I explain my contribution.

4. The facilitator of each group, together with the present participants, collect the emerged contributions in order to create categories taht collect them. Various working groups are created on the basis of the operational proposals that came out.

5. Facilitators of each keay issue present the results that emerged. The group shares proposals and impressions and evaluate the activities.

Action 3 - Put into practice The created working groups act to achieve results. The community periodically meets to share the implementation process.

During these steps, three key elements must be respected: -	The importance of individual narratives that underlies the importance of preserving the culture of a community. -	The importance of narratives as a tool to animate reflection and the sharing of the meaning within the community itself and between it and the wider society. -	The use of the specific narrative and discussion methodology.

Furthermore, various digital tools can be used: -	Facebook group or sharing posts made by facilitator and participants in order to connect participants during the activity. -	Videos and publication of documents with other members and people in general in order to share the results. -	Social media, email and others ICT facilities in order to share the implementation and keep the community informed on the development of the activities.

Learning Outcomes - which skills are addressed? -	Ability to remember and tell story in relation to their belonging in the community. -	Improve awareness of individual resources and the community as a whole. -	Ability to reflect, analyze and criticize the transformations of the community and its living environment in order to develop proposals for its improvement. -	Capacity to cooperate and commonly create a final result.

How do you check the outcomes are reached? -	Creation of a collection of experiences, reflections and operational proposals about the community.