Exercise bank

Search our collection of over 70 participatory learning exercises to find different types of exercise, for different audiences, focusing on different FORB related topics.

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Recognising and analysing violations

Persuasion or coercion

A buzz group exercise in which participants discuss scenarios from different parts of the world.

  • 60 min
  • Buzz group exercise
  • Case study/scenario
Context analysis

The web of good

A fun game and a good opening exercise for sessions focused on context analysis. Participants stand in a ring and throw a ball of wool to each other.

  • 15 min
  • Plenary exercise
  • Game
Ice-breakers and energisers

Fistfight – push and pull

A fun physical game. There are two ways to run the game. In pairs, participants either try to open the other person’s fist using any means they can think of, or they try to pull their partner across an imaginary line into their own space.

  • 10 min
  • Plenary exercise
  • Energiser
Action planning

Who am I

In this exercise, participants draw their personal and professional networks and imagine the role they could play to promote FORB within those settings.

  • 15 min
  • Plenary exercise
  • Draw and share
FORB other rights and development

Pass it on

A twist on the internationally popular whispering game.

  • 25 min
  • Plenary exercise
  • Game
Exploring freedom of religion or belief

The dots

A simple, effective non-verbal game. Requires no previous knowledge of freedom of religion or belief (FORB) among participants.

  • 20 min
  • Plenary exercise
  • Game
Exploring human rights

Human needs – human rights

An exercise that combines groupwork and plenary discussion to help participants connect their human needs and their human rights under international law.

  • 60 min
  • Multi-format exercise
  • Discuss, Reflect
FORB other rights and development

Saara the student journalist

Participants work together in four groups to address challenging questions arising from a fictional case study and to develop codes of conduct for different sectors of society.

  • 2 h
  • Group exercise
  • Case study/scenario
Action planning

What’s the problem

Designed to precede an action planning exercise, this participatory, inclusive exercise helps participants to choose 1-3 freedom of religion or belief (FORB) problems.

  • 55 min
  • Multi-format exercise
  • Think-pair-share

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Illustration Pakistani Christian women holding lit candles at mass.Illustration Pakistani Christian women holding lit candles at mass.

The FORB learning platform’s collection of exercises on FORB is such a treasure trove. There are so many useful exercises – my favourites are One step forwards and Once upon a time.