on our training ...

Hi there,
we are actually on our training
everything went great
it is a great group in here with us
busy, a bit tired
but happy,

hugs,
Michael

downloads

Here you find the main documents:
- the call for participants (.pdf)
- the application form (.doc)
- the programme-outline (.pdf)
all is situated on the official home-page www.creativity-unlocked.eu

actual state: applications, training design

Hi there, our training will start in about six weeks!

Today is the deadline for applications
we agreed, later applications might still be accepted, but there are allready a lot of applications- Not only from Irland there are more people who applied
than we have places in the training.

This evening we are going to get a summery of the state of applications:
by Deirdre (Irland) and Barbara (Austria, Germany, Latvia, Romania, Portugal), and the process of picking the participants will start. It will be done by the end of the week. At our last meeting in Antalya we agreed on doing the selection at April first.
We are very good in time, concerning our road-map, we will send acknowledging letters/ confirmations, invitations to the chosen participants then.

Everybody works on the actual sessions in the moment and is in good contact within the team.

I am quite exited
things get more and more concrete,

Michael

Own Website - for participants - and downloads

Hi there

actually a future participant found the blog
so there are people who will read this to decide on the training
great
so we should do our best to show our work in progress
and give an insight to our preparation
we don't need to put down propaganda
we just need to get the information about team, topic, training up date
I put the call for participants as a pdf on one of my websites
here it is call for participants (.pdf)
and application form (.doc)
and here is also our programme-outline (.pdf)

and of course there is a first version
of the official home-page
www.creativity-unlocked.eu

all the best,
Michael

Road-map

Hi there, our time-management is working
communication is not allways easy
but we managed to keep in close contact
so we were discussing changing decissions on the dates of our training
not easy to get everybodys needs right
not to be insulted
be open and sensitive enough to feel when someone feels bad
and be carefull but frank with your needs and thoughts

and actually I do believe
we took the dicission because we recognised the time for preparation
is essential for a quality training
I hope everybody agrees
than we took the dicission following the best argument
and it is not about the preference to people

still we were a bit late with the participants-call
of course to find a solution with the date-problems had to be done before
I think we managed well and are now a bit short before the deadline

nevermind,
there are a lot of applications allready
and it seems we will have to choose out of them

I am looking forward to that extraordinary learning-experience
with my dear team-members: Sylvia, Deirdre and Barbara
Hugs, Michael

Road-map

Hi there, here is our agenda, written by Barbara:

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FEBRUARY:

Send out programme - Sylvia - done
Send out “protocol” - Barbara - done
Start to organize the Blog - Michael - done

8.2. 09 Barbara sends call for participants to all - Barbara

Michael & Deirdre forward it to their target groups - Michael & Deirdre
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MARCH:

15.3. - ALL Scripts of sessions ON the blog - Sy, Ba, Mi, De

20.3. - Deadline for application of participants - Deirdre (Irland), Barbara (the rest)

End of march SKYPE session to update on: Sessions, Selection Participants, etc. - Sy, Ba, Mi, De
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APRIL:

1.4. Material list finished and sent to Deirdre - Michael

1.4. Selection of Participants (& confirm participants their participation) and send prep pack to trainers (for feedback) - Barbara (after selection through team)

15.4. Send out Prep Pack for Participants - Barbara (after getting
feedback from team)
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thanks,
Michael

We proudly present: CREATIVITY:UNLOCKED the blog

Hi there,

this is the blog concerning a wonderfull training called CREATIVITY:UNLOCKED
the overall aim of our training is to share and explore creative approaches and methodology working with young people all over Europe (and beyond)

The training will take place in Dublin, Ireland and will be attended by participants from Ireland, Austria, Germany, Latvia, Portugal and Romania.

Date of arrival: Wednesday 30th of April 2009 in the evening
Date of departure: Tuesday 6th of May 2009 in the morning

In between: five full days of training where we will establish a laboratory to experiment with the creativity of individual practice as well as the creativity of joined action of groups we will introduce the Youth in Action programm as a bundle of options for future projects, work with the youth-pass (with methods of, creative writing - and issue one for every participant)and ask our participants for their contribution to creative approaches by introducing the Open-Space technology

the seven partner-organizations involved are:

Fingal Centre - Ireland (Deirdre's organization, Fingal on the outskirts of Dublin, north of centre)
Akzente International - Austria (Barbara's Organization, )
Verein Grenzenlos - Austria
KURVE Wustow - Germany (Michael's Organization
Radi Vidi Pats - Latvia
Rota Jovem - Portugal
ACTOR - Romania

if you click on the organizations' names highlighted by a different colour, you will get to the websites of our partners (and it's very interesting to take a look at the websites of partners if you never did before and, when you don't understand their languages, ...)

there will be 25 participants
and sure we will have a good time all of us,

Rock 'N' Roll