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Deeper Aims

You may have decided your overall aim and purpose, now look a little deeper. What else do you want to encourage or achieve?

What else could you achieve?

  • Have an enjoyable time
  • Meet others or provide social space
  • Learn more about a topic
  • Engage critically with an issue
  • Encourage people to think for themselves or analyse a problem themselves
  • Gain a better understanding of authentic Islam
  • Hear from different sides on a debatable point and make their own minds up
  • Stimulate vigorous discussion or debate
  • Encourage thoughtful and reflective discussion or dialogue
  • Exchange ideas creatively from different sources
  • Reach a consensus, conclusion, decision, resolution
  • Create something that can be sustained and developed in further activities or events
  • Generate ideas for action, projects, activities
  • Encourage people to become more involved


How would you rank the following values as applied to this event?

  • Freedom of expression
  • Avoiding causing offence or distress
  • Maximum range of views
  • Harmony, consistency of views, values or approach
  • Having a diversity of people
  • Having people who share the same interests, values, background
  • Encouraging new people to come, reaching out across boundaries
  • Providing a safe space where people know they will find understanding and acceptance
  • Critical thinking, critique
  • Keeping within boundaries of what is acceptable
  • Highest-quality input or knowledge
  • Maximum participation for those attending

Try This
For a change, you could try the sticker exercise by yourself or in your team or planning group.