Trainer's Script for Role Play, Study notes of Teaching method

Download Trainer's Script for Role Play and more Study notes Teaching method in PDF only on Docsity! Advocacy Meeting Trainer’s Script for Role Play 1 Advocacy Training Resource Trainer’s Script for Role Play SLIDE: Role Playing 20 Minutes  Now we will practice!  Pick an issue that is relevant to your community. Below is a sample script for a visit about abortion access. Adapt as needed.  Decide who will be the elected official/staff and who will be the advocate. Then, act out the visits, soliciting feedback after each scenario.  Note: You may want to predetermine these roles and give volunteers time to look over the script and make it their own. Bad Visit Scenario o Role Playing  Advocate: Hi Senator______. Thank you so much for agreeing to meet with me. Are we meeting in your office?  Senator: Thank you, ______. I love meeting with folks in the community. We’re actually going to be meeting in the hallway, due to space. I hope standing is okay because we don’t really have a choice.  Advocate: flustered Oh, um, okay, yeah. I’ll follow you, but how will I take notes? I mean, I guess it’s okay. I want to meet you.  Senator: I don’t have a lot of time today, so let’s get started. I’m assuming you’re here today to talk about Israel. Tell me about it.  Advocate: Oh, I emailed…  Senator: interrupt Y’all are doing good stuff on Israel.  Advocate: Actually, I emailed in my meeting request, while Israel is an important issue, I am actually here to talk about the 20-week abortion ban. If you want to talk about Israel, I can try to do that now or I can get back to you later with more information.  Senator: I mean no, we can talk about abortion if that’s important to you. I think it’s pretty public how I feel about the issue, but I always like to hear more from constituents.  Advocate: First, I want to say thank you for your time. I know as you say, you have a public opinion on this and I disagree with it, but I appreciate how Advocacy Meeting Trainer’s Script for Role Play 2 you voted a couple months ago on a bill in support of homeless shelters. So thank you, but getting back to why I’m here…  Senator: interrupts again Oh yeah, of course, you know that I really care about the community.  Advocate: I’m glad you say that, because I am here to talk to you about your support for legislation in the state senate that would ban abortion after 20- weeks. I really think that is a bad idea and I don’t want you to approve that bill.  Senator: annoyed I’m sorry that you feel that way, but a lot my constituents really support it. We know that infants feel pain at 20 weeks and babies are precious members of our community that must be protected. It is simply wrong to kill them and I know that the community agrees with me on this. I think it’s abhorrent that you don’t think that too and that you would allow babies to be executed moments before birth. I guess we disagree on that. I’m curious, as someone who believes in this, how many people in our community even need abortions after 20 weeks?  Advocate: 100, 100 need them right now.  Senator: 100 people, oh. Alright, if you say so.  Advocate: And I think you’re abhorrent for holding your view. Don’t call me, abhorrent, you’re abhorrent. 100 people need this procedure right now.  Senator: Well, I think that is all the time I have today. I am not going to vote the way you want, but keep being a community advocate.  Advocate: I’m leaving. o ASK: What goes well?  The advocate stays on topic  The advocate started with a thank you  The advocate found something in the Senator’s record to compliment o ASK: What goes wrong?  The advocate gets visibly flustered.  The advocate makes up the answer about number of people who need abortions after 20 weeks instead of saying I don’t know, but I will get back to you with that information  The advocate does not say thank you o ASK: What could have gone better?  The advocate could say “we just have to agree to disagree”  The advocate can be more flexible  The advocate should embrace civility; don’t call the senator “abhorrent”