What we'll be doing, & why we do it:
This activity will help us to identify the routine demands we have in our daily lives (demands on our time for our own and our families' overall welfare). We will do this by looking at our typical day or week, from morning to bedtime. This information can help us to understand how we spend our days, the limits on our time, and how much free time we might have available to spend on our future project activities.
 

Materials we'll use:
Personal Weekly Schedule; Weekly Group Schedule poster; marking pens, tape, and tacks.
 

How to do it:

• We will work in small groups.
• Think about your typical day or week, and how you spend your time during the year.
• If you prefer, you may begin by listing your routine activities on your "Personal Weekly Schedule" (on the other side of this page.)
• Or, if you prefer, you may skip this step and go directly to the "Group Schedule" and list your activities there.
• Take turns writing down your activities on the Group Schedule.
• Do our days or weeks look different during different seasons? If there are great differences, you can decide to create a schedule for the different seasons, or use different colors or symbols for summer, fall, winter or spring.

Sharing our Schedules:

• Each small group will take a turn and share their results
• How do we understand - what do we notice -about the demands on our time - as individuals and as a group? What do we have in common? What' differences do we see?

Everyone- the Whole Group:

• What are the similarities and differences in the individual demands on our time?
• When would be the best times of days for meetings? Training?
• What could we do to reduce some of our existing workloads or the pressures on our time
• What did we learn? Is there anything we might do want to do differently now? In the future?

My Personal Weekly Schedule:

• Think of a typical week and write your routine activities on the Schedule.
• If it varies by season, you can note this on the Schedule.
• When you are ready, you can join with others and add your activities to the Group Schedule.