Step-by-Step
1. In preparation for the Treasure Hunting method, the project leaders must formulate questions that the participants should later ask each other. You can adapt the questions individually to your project. The questions can be related to the personal and cultural background of the participants as well as to developments or challenges in the project.
2. Stand together with the participants in a circle and explain the method to them.
3. Each participant receives a list of the questions developed beforehand. In order to find answers to these questions, the participants now move around the room for about 15 minutes and talk to the other participants. For this, they can ask any person for the answer, but it is not allowed to get more than one information from one person at a time. Also, there should not be asked more than one person at a time.
4. Ask the participants to come back to the circle after 15 minutes. Go through all the questions together. The people who have received an answer to the question raise their hand and state the answer.
5. Now conduct a retrospective ft he activity by discussing the following questions:
a. Who feels that he/she received a unique or surprising answer?
b. Who was asked the same question by other participants, why do you think that happened?
c. What did you learn from the exercise and how did your confidence in the other parrticipants change?