SARAR Participatory Methodology Workshop at GAIA EcoVillage Design course, Ometepe, Nicaragua, 2014

Ron Sawyer, director of Sarar-Tranformación www.sarar-t.org (Tepoztlán, Morelos, México) facilitating a workshop on the SARAR Participatory Methodology

SARAR is an education/training methodology for working with people at different levels to engage their creative capacities in planning, problem solving and evaluation. The objective of the SARAR approach is not to teach a specific message or subject matter, but to stimulate the learners to think through problems for themselves and to help them to develop their own analytic, creative and planning abilities. The acronym SARAR stands for the five attributes and capacities that are considered the minimum essentials for participation to be a dynamic and self-sustaining process:

• Self-esteem: a sense of self-worth as a person as well as being a valuable resource for development.
• Associative strengths: the capacity to define and work toward a common vision through mutual respect, trust, and collaborative effort.
• Resourcefulness: the capacity to visualize new solutions to problems even against the odds, and the
willingness to be challenged and take risks.
• Action planning: combining critical thinking and creativity to come up with new, effective, and reality-based plans in which each participant has a useful and fulfilling role.
• Responsibility: for follow-through until the commitments made are fully discharged and the hoped-for
benefits achieved.

Ron Sawyer was among the core group of SARAR facilitator-designers inspired by Dr. Lyra Srinivasan in the '70s and '80.

http://www.sarar-t.org/index.php/metodologia-sarar


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