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

Road-map, responsibilities

I started anonther label:
The road-map
as Barbara has the data and is working on it, I would ask you to put it in here, or: I offer to put it into the blog if you send it via mail. Or should we not put it in the public blog? What kind of shared information would you like to put into the bloggoshpere?
Michael

details shown, changes in navigation

I put our full names in the Blog-details
I don't know if this is a good idea, it spreads data, probably the blog will be found by google when somebody is looking for your full name. That can be considerd to be good but also bad.
please take the names out if you don't agree, or tell me and I will erase the names.

... and again about lay-out details:
I put the labels also on the right side as a "new gadged" in the navigation side-bar. Hope it's a help. I write these things down in detail because they might be a help in organising the blog.

If you are sick and tired of that,
just click on another label and these things about my attempts to set up the blog will be hidden.

Michael

Labels up

Hi there,

As a starting point I established two labels:
- "the blog" - about how to use and manage this thing
- "materials and tools" - about one of my responsibilities
if you post something, you should fill in the field down there wich asks for labels. I changed the layout, that the label is showed up, directly under the Titel of each posting. If you click the label, the blog shows all posts under that label only.

You can create new labels easily
by just typing a word in the box. When you type a letter which is part of a label, the programme proposes the already existing one. (like when you type "b" it will offer you "the blog") so you can easily use the labels for sorting your posts.

Hope that will make it easier to work with the blog,
if you don't get along, I can also label postings later on
if postings get too many and too less structured we can also change things later on

Michael

Materials and Tools (production of desires)

This is a first post about materials,
we are going to use in our training. You can imagine I'd like to have lots of materials around. There will be 25 participants and I would like to offer them different stuff to experiment with and never get short of something.

I'll start in the next posting with a first list of:
1) Materials and Tools I will bring from my personal belonging (collection)
2) Materials and Tools that I will buy that will stay with me afterwards
3) Materials that we have to buy that will get used up
4) Materials and Tools we all could bring (everyday things, waste, small gimmicks, ...)

I'd like to use:
- lots of plastilin (at least three times the amount of what we had in Antalya)
- my collection of postcards
- white postcards
- tools like: all kinds of pens and pencils, graphic-scalpells, knifes, scissors, brushes of all sizes, modelling-tools, things that nobody knows what they are made for, kitchen equipment, needels and pins, ...
- materials like: loads of big sheets of paper (A0 or bigger), a lot of paper of different sizes/different colours, card, strings, cords, rubber-band, different kinds of glue, big bottles of liquid paint, watercolour, cloth, a collection of clothes and dresses, ...

It is a first brainstorming,
there are more ideas and I will send you also my ideas how we can organise to get the material to Dublin. How materials are connected to sessions and methods, ... Another step is getting from ideas and wishes down to realities. Please be patient, I'll work on ideas first and I'd like you to contribute yours and I'd apreciate if you don't cencor ideas with regards to if they are realistic

Production of desires /whish-production:
ideas lead to other ideas, dance withanother and produce more ideas, melt into another and change, stupid is good and the impossible gets realistic.
Small modifications lead to practicable steps.

Rock'N'Roll,
Michael

... Starting over ...

Hi there,
CREATIVITY:UNLOCKED has a new playground:
Our blog.

Lounching the project
at september 16th in Graz
application in November via email-communication
approval in December
team upgrading in January in Antalya
a lot of concrete work: programme design, sharing of tasks and responsibilities, roadmap, establishing the blog in January in Antalya

and now: starting over
with lots of positive energy thanks to our team
In the moment we start discovering the possibilities of the blog as a tool for sharing, managing, planning and organising ...

Hello
to Sylvia, Barbara and Deirdre
and to all our followers, Michael.