Diversities Project
Introduction
The “Diversities” Project promotes debate and awareness on themes such as gender identity and stereotypes, racism, socioeconomic classes, religion and spirituality, psychological disorders and deficiencies. Furthermore, it is a youth mobilization to question and reconstruct prejudices embedded and naturalized into the Scout Movement that compromises its educational process’ objectives.
Adults also have a lot to learn in Scouting and the youth can have an important role on it. The Project also reflects the search for space and the youth’s need to be heard, because we still face barriers to take positions towards a Program that should be from us to ourselves.
Purpose
The goal is to engage volunteers, parents and youth in a democratic and inclusive space of debate about the themes raised, stimulating the critical thinking about it and proposing actions and solutions to actual questions inside and outside the Scout Movement, changing our reality as we all are social actors to positive transformations.
The idea behind the public was: the volunteers play the educator’s role to the youth and should be constantly capacitated to it, parents are as essential to their child’s formation as they are essential to the Scout Group, and the youth can develop and contribute with all discussions as well, exercising an open-mind to different ideas, also having an open space to express opinions and visions and to be themselves.
The Project’s meetings happen monthly, in the 1st Scout Group “São Paulo”, often with specialists and other guests.
Benefits
To organizers
- Develop experience with coordination of lectures and group dynamics and functioning.
- Understand how to deal with different reactions about taboo-subjects.
- Build a respectful and democratic space to express opinions and ask questions.
- Research and deepen together on the Project’s themes.
- Connect with specialist and other guests.
- Deal with an intergenerational space.
- Better integration between youth, parents and volunteers.
- More democratic and inclusive space to promote a better Scouting.
- Relate the themes with the Scout Group reality as to the Brazilian Scouting and Society reality, proposing changes.
- Warm listening and constructive intergenerational dialogue.
- Exercise about respecting different ideas and opinions.
- Valorize the youth educator’s role in the Scout Group and in the Scout Movement as well.
- Formation of multiplicators of positive changes and constructive critics.
- Work towards the following Sustainable Development Goals: #1, #2, #4, #5, #8, #10, #16 and #17.
- The first step into really building integration between the Scout Group and the community around it.
- Understand the community’s role to the themes.
- Formation of multiplicators of positive changes and constructive critics.
- Listen and work towards the community’s demands.
- Relate the themes with the Brazilian Society reality, proposing changes.
- More democratic and inclusive space to promote empathy.
- Work towards the following Sustainable Development Goals: #1, #2, #4, #5, #8, #10, #16 and #17.