Post-discussion discussion and brainstorming

How well do you think you did these things?

  • Supporting your arguments (e.g. with personal experience and examples)
  • Avoiding over-generalising such as saying “Women + verb…”
  • Showing how strong or not your opinions are
  • Disagreeing politely
  • Working towards a consensus
  • Turn taking (= Making sure that everyone had an equal chance to speak by inviting others to contribute, interrupting politely, politely stopping interruption, etc)

Optional: Give yourselves a collective score between 0 for “didn’t do it at all” and 10 for “did it perfectly” for each of those things.

Starting with the things you did least well, discuss how you could improve on those things.

Brainstorm suitable phrases to do those things (better):

Supporting your arguments

Avoiding over-generalising such as saying “Women + verb…”

Showing how strong or not your opinions are

Disagreeing politely

Working towards a consensus

Inviting other people to contribute

Interrupting politely

Politely stopping or ending interruption

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