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The document outlines an exercise for stakeholder mapping through the arts, aimed at understanding community dynamics related to social issues. Participants engage in a physical representation of stakeholders, exploring their influences and needs in relation to a chosen problem. The activity encourages reflection on how stakeholder relationships can impact social change and promotes a collaborative approach to addressing community challenges.

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The document outlines an exercise for stakeholder mapping through the arts, aimed at understanding community dynamics related to social issues. Participants engage in a physical representation of stakeholders, exploring their influences and needs in relation to a chosen problem. The activity encourages reflection on how stakeholder relationships can impact social change and promotes a collaborative approach to addressing community challenges.

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Global toolkit 2019

Activity 4.17 Stakeholder Mapping Through the Arts

Module: 4. Planning Social Action

Duration: 90 Minutes

Social Development Themes: Arts 4. They should think about themselves in relation to
the problem/issue – the empty chair. The closer
Summary they are to the empty chair, the more influence they
feel they have over the issue.
An exercise that stands alone, or, if adapted could
add physicality to a number of the activities in 5. Ask the group if they agree with the position.
Module 3.
6. Once the group is happy, ask the volunteer some
This particular version creatively explores the questions in character. They should reply to the
different stakeholders that are involved in a questions as if they are the stakeholder: ‘How do
particular problem or social issue. As a tool, it can you feel about the problem? Why? What do you
be used to understand more about different want to happen?
influences, agendas, wants and needs in
communities, at a local, national and global level. 7. Repeat this process, adding more people
(stakeholders) to the space and asking similar
Invite participants to be aware not just of their questions. Once all the stakeholders are in the
thoughts during this exercise but also any other space, invite them in character, to remind the group
sensory experiences or ‘gut feelings’ that might briefly how they feel about the particular issue.
provide insights into the issues explored.
8. Now ask what the stakeholders what they need
Learning Outcomes: from each other for things to progress and the
situation to change.
Understand the concept of community and
connections between local and global community 9. Participants should also be invited to ask
stakeholders questions. These, of course, are not
Ability to identify key stakeholders in the community
the real stakeholders. To find out what the
– power and decision-making
stakeholders really feel we would need to consult
Approach: them, which could be an important step in
developing a social action strategy.
1. Ask 1. Place an empty chair in the middle of the
room. The chair represents an issue in their 10. You could also build on this by inviting a
communities that the group have identified and participant to sit in the chair and become the issue
would like to explore further, for example youth itself, responding to what the stakeholders are
unemployment. saying.

2. On a flipchart, make a list of all the stakeholders 11. After hearing different perspectives, the
that are connected to that issue. Who or what has audience and also the stakeholders should be
some kind of influence on this? For example the encouraged to identify some of the things they feel
police, local councilors, young people. Ask the would make a difference to this issue.
group how influential each of these stakeholders is.
12. Invite participants to let go of their roles as
3. Once the different stakeholders have been stakeholders. The group is now able to discuss in
identified, ask for a volunteer to enter the space. smaller groups of four and five any possible
They represent one of the stakeholders. They strategies to help overcome the problem – they
create an image of that stakeholder. should focus on areas where they feel Active
Citizens can have an influence.
Global toolkit 2019

Debrief:

The activity is a way of embodying the different


parts of the community, exploring their motivation,
agenda and intentions and looking at the bigger
picture.

How might this activity be useful when thinking


about change in our communities? Does it make us
think differently about how change happens? This
activity can help us to explore how stakeholders
influence an issue and also how the different
stakeholders are connected – changing one
relationship may have an impact on others. This
avoids an ‘us and them’ approach to
change/progress.

What happens if a person representing the opposite


of the issue positions themselves in/enters the
space? In the example given above, the group
might identify that the opposite is Youth
Employment or Local Development. How might this
affect the other stakeholders? What journey might
they need to make to move closer to this new
element?

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