
Designed for Youth Corps Singapore
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Common Ground is a customised expansion of Smol Tok specially designed for Youth Corps Singapore to help its volunteers carry out ground-up initiatives, and learn by leading in self-organising teams.
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42 cards serve as verbal cues to ground and guide volunteers at different stages of their journey.

THE PURPOSE
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Grow in empathy towards less fortunate members of society
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Collaborate on and carry out ground-up initiatives in self-organising teams
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Reflect and learn from service-related experiences
FACILITATING LEARNING
Common Ground casts the spotlight on key questions that often go unasked or unanswered. Cards contain questions and missions to help volunteers develop relationships, discover social needs, and develop solutions at different stages in the journey, such as:
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Ice-breaking
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Discovering the Community
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Diagnosing Needs
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Designing an Initiative
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Briefing Volunteers
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Debriefing Volunteers






DIG
Questions that raise inconvenient or ignored truths early in the design process.






DIRECT
Questions are accompanied by missions. There are 7 different mission types that teams execute in a directed way to develop their initiatives.






DEBRIEF
Questions for facilitators to tease out learning points and help volunteers connect the dots.
ALL HANDS-ON DECK
Common Ground is exclusively available at Youth Corps Singapore. Email The Red Box to find out more about this booster pack and its impact.