Agents 4 Action
Agents 4 Action is an interactive citizenship workshop designed to engage young people with a number of citizenship and sustainability themes and inspire them to become leaders.
The workshop facilitators will coach awareness, curiosity, discussion, cooperation, persuasion, creativity and project design. Games, group activities, role play, conversation, video and presentations are used to help young people develop their understanding of sustainability issues and explore ways to make a difference.
The programme consists of three sections entitled: Provoke, Inspire, and Create.
- Provoke: students consider what’s going on in the world and what they think about it. Through activities and games they explore their opinions, expand their knowledge of sustainability issues and get a chance to creatively express their hopes and fears for the future.
- Inspire: students learn about inspirational leaders and change makers and a video highlights ways in which young people have taken on the responsibility of being change makers – with the aim of inspiring others to do the same. Role plays develop students’ understanding of actions and consequences and skills around persuasive argument.
- Create: students work in teams to plan a project idea based on a social or environmental issue of their choice with the help of project planning tools and adult facilitators. Having developed their ideas each team delivers a presentation to an “Apprentice-style” panel of judges who provide constructive feedback and encourage project implementation.
Agents4Action can run for between one hour and a whole day and can be adapted for Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. We can take a single class of a whole year group depending on your needs.
"An innovative, student-centred approach to encouraging young people to engage with the key issues facing society today. Extremely well-organised with enthusiastic and well informed facilitators, I would recommend this without reservation."
Amy Oxley - Extended Schools Coordinator, Globe Academy, Southwark
For more information about Agents 4 Action click here or contact Patrick Taylor at patrick@envision.org.uk or on 020 7253 1677.
