Monday, January 30, 2012

Training Session in Tartu

On 30th of January we had three training sessions: two in Tartu and one in Valga. I was observing group nr 2 in Tartu. Our group was very well prepared. Ada, Adriana, Camille, Serkan, Rosica, Gundega and Elina were giving their best. At 10 am some participants were still missing, so we decided to wait little bit more. After 10 minutes our guest arrived, about 29 people. There were about 7-10 high school students, others mostly students from university and we had two teachers also.

Ada began introduction with a short presentation about our training "Stop Labeling Yourself". She captured everybody's attention. After that everybody had a change to introduce themselves, our group carried out several different workshops. For example drawing the identity molecul and talking about stereotypes in smaller groups.

In the beginning it was hard to make participants speak, to share their opinion, but Gundega found a good solution to this problem. She took a pen and said that now this is a microphone and everyone will have to when the microphone reaches him or her. Gundega gave the pen alias microphone to one participant and participants started talking when they received the pen. After that we could hear much more different opinions and training went on more vividly. I wish that all participants learned something about themselves and the society from during this training. For sure, it was a good opportunity for our group to experience carrying out workshops by themselves.

Katja

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