The preparation for our online training #creatingSpace is in full swing. Unfortunately the participants do not have the chance to talk about digital ethics in Kreisau. Nevertheless, we would like to give the participants the feeling of moving between rooms and locations.
Therefore we will meet during the seminar in different rooms: sometimes in the ballroom, we will brainstorm on the grass in front of the castle, we will work in small groups in the lounge under the castle roof or in the Sala Majowa and take a break on the bench in the sun and maybe take a walk through the avenue together, all of course only virtually!
Read more: The preparation for online training #creatingSpace
My learning process. Nosce te ipsum
5.05.2020, Karolina Moroz
All guides to volunteering programmes emphasise the deepest purpose of volunteering: learning process. It refers to young people who decide to volunteer and around this concept activities with volunteers are organised. The learning process is also what is carefully evaluated during and at the end of the project. Much less space is devoted to the enormous scope of this process, which includes not only the volunteers, but all those who have ever come into contact with the volunteers or the activities they have prepared.
Coordinating voluntary activities, in my case European Voluntary Service projects, now the European Solidarity Corps, is an ongoing learning process. On the face of it, coordination looks like human resources management with a touch of administrative work, but when I look deeper into it, it is all about meeting and experiencing new people and looking inside myself.
Read more: My learning process. Nosce te ipsum
"Will we play BINGO?" - conversation about privileges during quarantine
21.04.2020, Anna Kudarewska, Luba Shynder
Ania
One of the areas of the IYMC's work is anti-discrimination education, an important element of which is awareness of privileges that some social groups use more or less consciously. Various crises, difficult situations in which we find ourselves can be an opportunity to reflect on these privileges, they let us stop and see what is transparent and invisible on a daily basis. Also now, at a time when we deal with compulsory isolation in our homes in different ways, this is an important topic. Our teacher, Luba, has created a bingo (a tool we often use when working with young people) that can help us reflect on our privileges, wonder if only we feel the current situation as difficult, because we can not do things that seemed obvious to us, because our daily standards have fallen, which were simply very high compared to most people in the world. Using this bingo, we can devote ourselves to reflecting on other people around us, close or very far away, and think about what we can do from our privileged position, what change is needed. Also in our pedagogical work with young people.
Read more: Will we play BINGO?
Planning the activities of the Green Table for the coming months is a lot of fun.
The Green Table is a team of representatives of all departments of the Krzyżowa Foundation, which develops and implements pro-ecological solutions in our activity.
Here a meeting with the "technical" part of the team. Although the center is closed, we are wondering how to run it in a way that is least harmful to the environment.
We talk about the consumption of resources, the offer of our kitchen, food producers and the coming drought.
Read more: The Krzyżowa Foundation's Green Table - online version
