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COOPERATIVE TOOLS - TRAINING

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APAC offers training tools in the form of visual presentations, such as PowerPoint or Prezi.

You can use them for your own personal development or in group training to enhance your ability to implement cooperative methods. Currently, 24 titles are available.

Click on the image to access the corresponding tool.

 

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Analyze relationships within a group


How to carry out a sociogram to analyze the relationships within a group of young people and have an idea of the level of social development of each of its members.

Prepare a meeting-discussion


Understand and make understood how to properly prepare a meeting so that it is interesting and productive.

Conduct a meeting-discussion


Tools and practical advice to become a good meeting driver. A role of great importance in any organization.

The global coffee


An effective tool for organizing meetings with several tens, or even hundreds of participants by truly allowing collaborative and productive work.

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The window of JOHARI


A valuable tool for discovering the obstacles to true face-to-face communication and understanding that one must dare to open up to others in order to gain their trust and lead them to open up themselves. 

The main educational approaches


This tool describes, from illustrations and diagrams, the progression of learning approaches from the transmissive approach to constructivist approaches.

Creative problem solving


This tool offers a creative approach to problem solving in seven key steps.

Knowledge management


How an organization can identify and capitalize knowledge from the experience of its members and model it to build essential tools for sharing them.

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Mental models 


How to identify our mental models and change them as needed in order to better perceive the reality around us and the problems we encounter.

The development tasks


The development task concept helps to specify the key skills that young people must acquire at every stage of their life, from childhood to adulthood.

The FFOM analysis


A strategic planning technique based on the analysis of the 5 key characteristics of any organization: its values, its strengths, its weaknesses, the opportunities available to them, and the threats it must face.

The economic model of an association 


The concept of economic model is not reserved for companies, it can also be useful for non-profit associations. Indeed, associations also create value for different segments of users or members.

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Collaborative learning


The concept of collaborative learning is analyzed from the work of Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget and David Kolb, in order to reveal its advantages and risks. 

Participation and empowerment of young people


How does giving young people more power to act, seeking to involve them as much as possible, give a greater impact to educational action? 

The program cycle


An educational tool that allows to involve young people in the choice, programming, realization, evaluation of activities and recognition of personal progress.

Cultivating resilience


Discover the concept of resilience and understand how a cooperative pedagogical approach, such as that of Scouting, allows the implementation of protective factors in order to cultivate the resilience of young people

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The organization of the 5th type


Discover the 5 successive stages of organizations described by Frédéric Laloux, from the impulsive stage to the evolutionary stage, that of the "Opale" organization.


     

 

The learning organization


How a learning organization works, an ecosystem in which cross-functional communication promotes collaborative learning and collective intelligence. 

Shared governance


The principles and methods that allow a shift from authoritarian and pyramidal governance to shared governance.

Appreciative exploration


Instead of paying attention to flaws, problems, and shortcomings, it is preferable to focus on discovering our strengths in order to achieve better. 

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Brainstorm with post-its


A method of collective intelligence to search for ideas or solve a problem using sticky notes ("post-it").

Systems thinking


Systems thinking allows one to analyze the interdependencies between the elements of a set instead of just analyzing each element. and therefore to learn to recognize the ramifications and counterparts of any action one chooses to take.

The dead ends of Cartesianism


Three concepts stemming from Cartesian thought risk trapping us in dead ends: the dichotomy between body and mind, analytical thinking at the expense of systemic thinking, the defectuological approach instead of appreciative exploration.

The challenge of spiritual development


Spiritual development is a category of human development, while religion is a matter of belief and part of the cultural expression of a community. Educational activities can be bearers of spiritual development outside any religious practice.