ABSTRACT
This chapter describes that toolkit is essentially a collection of initiative games. It explains that toolkit is to provide those working with people, whether children, teenagers or adults with a range of activities that challenge perceptions, develop group skills, expand comfort zones, and promote activity-based learning. These games can be used as easy ways to get to know people, to begin to look at issues, they can be used as the foundation of wider programmes of learning or they can be used as the core of a development programme. Initiative games are fun, cooperative, challenging games in which the group is confronted with a specific problem' to solve and has to work out a solution, sometimes with and sometimes without support from the leader. Initiative games are valuable because they demonstrate and teach leadership skills, which help to promote personal, emotional and psychological growth.
