Remake of Our Reflection Stories by Marco Santos

Day 1 - Black Unicorns

2018-07-12 16:27:54 UTC

The first day gave us an opportunity to build a team and get to know each other. The small workshops at the end were really informative and inspiring.

Day 1 - Green Peas

2018-07-12 16:29:12 UTC

- It’s good to know who you are going to work with;
- Getting to know the topics that will be covered during this TC;
- Getting comfortable with each other.

Day 1 Black Unicorns

2018-07-12 16:31:38 UTC

Getting to know the programme and the aims of the course
Getting to know the expectations, contributions and fears of participants

Day 1 - Green Peas

2018-07-12 16:32:18 UTC

- Practical touch during open space sessions;
- Peer learning;
- Inclusive group dynamics.

2018-07-12 16:32:41 UTC

Day 1 Black Unicorns

2018-07-12 16:33:16 UTC

Too soon to tell

Day 1 - Green Peas

2018-07-12 16:35:25 UTC

- No comments

Day 1 Black Unicorns

2018-07-12 16:35:28 UTC

Topic of active listening

Day 1 - Green Peas

2018-07-12 16:36:21 UTC

- First time we felt like a community/team (orange game).

Day 1 - Green Peas

2018-07-12 16:36:47 UTC

- We support the motion from our Black Unicorn friends — COOKIES!
- We should have more time to prepare our open spaces;
- If the energizers could be somewhere else besides the street, it would be aweeesome!

Day 1 Black Unicorns

2018-07-12 16:37:04 UTC

Cookies for coffee break

Day 1 - Oranges

2018-07-12 16:40:06 UTC

- interactive, inclusive, no tension
- activities outside (but not on the road)
- social network explanation

Day 1 - Oranges

2018-07-12 16:41:16 UTC

- oranges game
- introduction to the programme
- name games

Day 1 - Oranges

2018-07-12 16:43:33 UTC

- the evaluation of the oranges game was a bit repetitive and slow

Day 1 - Oranges

2018-07-12 16:46:07 UTC

- First connection with the group as a whole

Day 1 - Oranges

2018-07-12 16:46:43 UTC

- Screen for the last activity with social media
- It would be nice to know when it is useful to take phones to follow the task
- Light in the bathrooms (3rd floor)

Day 1 - The Hungriest

2018-07-12 16:58:54 UTC

Energizer was good
Orange Game with reflection was insightful
Open Space was useful, LinkedIn Instagram especially

Day 1 - The Hungriest

2018-07-12 17:00:07 UTC

The Orange Game debriefing
The Trainers are very skilled and professional.

Day 1 - The Hungriest

2018-07-12 17:00:42 UTC

Being the introday, there is not a lot of "meat" on the sessions yet
1.5H lunch was too short
some of pax were tired from travel
the introduction could have been "deeper"

Day 1 - The Hungriest

2018-07-12 17:02:41 UTC

More time for getting to know each other
Hopeful for learning more about other pax

Day 1 - The Hungriest

2018-07-12 17:03:14 UTC

Change one of the intro games to a deeper one, e.g. 2TRUTHS1LIE
More meat at lunch for last in line, more breakfast (also at 9am)

Day 2 Black Unicorns

2018-07-13 16:06:11 UTC

The lecture about rhetorics
Starting the media lab

Day 2 Oranges

2018-07-13 16:07:13 UTC

- Knowleadge about philosophers and rhetoric strategies

Day 2 Black Unicorns

2018-07-13 16:09:50 UTC

Background on philosophy

Day 2 - Green peas

2018-07-13 16:10:07 UTC

Different types of persuasion
How to structure a message/speech + creating one
Cookies

Day 2 Oranges

2018-07-13 16:10:15 UTC

- Start to work in the teams on the actual campaings and learning about our case
- Theatre excercise and learning by practice

Day 2 Black Unicorns

2018-07-13 16:10:58 UTC

Day 2 Orange

2018-07-13 16:11:45 UTC

- Energizers (esp. Tibor - but he doesn´t like them in general so no offence Fred)

Day 2 Orange

2018-07-13 16:13:50 UTC

- With our working groups

Day 3 Black Unicorns

2018-07-13 16:14:07 UTC

Antonella (Nika)
Greek rhetorics

Day 2 Oranges

2018-07-13 16:14:27 UTC

- Maybe a bit more time for preparing the presentations

Day 2 - Green Peas

2018-07-13 16:15:05 UTC

- discovering a deeper insight into group working
- elevating speech writing skills and testing out
- watching documentary history on peaceful protest that has worked without social media

Day 2 Black Unicorns

2018-07-13 16:15:46 UTC

Thanks for the cookies ☺ 🍪

Day 2: Green

2018-07-13 16:18:12 UTC

- hat game asked ambiguous questions
- communication line task wasn’t used, therefore we don’t know how it could be useful

Day 2: Green Peas

2018-07-13 16:22:05 UTC

- Have found a deeper connection with our media lab group whom we worked with briefly yesterday

Days 2: Green Peas

2018-07-13 16:23:15 UTC

- more interaction from trainers during media lab time
- working with themes that are closer to our personal knowledge in the media lab (ie it was hard for us to get into the campaign element without going deep for a long time into the history of the subject, as we all wanted to be considerateit left little time for the practica task)

Day 2 - The hungriest

2018-07-13 16:33:47 UTC

Energizers !!
Philosophical input <- theory is often forgotten in NFE
Simulation exercise is great

Day 2 - The hungriest

2018-07-13 16:35:31 UTC

Mix between theory is really good
diversity of methods is enlightening

Day 2 - The Hungriest

2018-07-13 16:36:16 UTC

Food -> not enough salad and not enough food for first portion for all
Communications session was weak:
The model of communication wasnt really used or highlighted properly
Noise debriefing was too long

Day 2 - The hungriest

2018-07-13 16:37:42 UTC

Pax are getting along pretty well
smaller groups with focus are good
Reuse of Adventure groups are really good
No pressure to integrate -> good more natural development of relations

Day 2 - The Hungriest

2018-07-13 16:38:52 UTC

Communication exercise could be more concise
The Comm. model could be used more deliberately
the communication rules could be more legitimized (fingers indicating speaker roles)

Day 3 Black Unicorns

2018-07-14 16:08:52 UTC

Stereotypes presentation
Stereotypes task
Pilars and power chart

Day 3 Oranges

2018-07-14 16:10:33 UTC

- Stereotypes and prejudice session
- Pillars and power-graph
- Flexibility with food, the best sandwiches, fresh salad

Days 3 Black Unicorns

2018-07-14 16:12:10 UTC

Same as useful

Day 3 Oranges

2018-07-14 16:12:30 UTC

- The game AGREE/DISAGREE was nice and important
- Information in the presentation

Day 3 - Green Peas

2018-07-14 16:12:53 UTC

- Pillars and graphs;
- Dilemma actions;
- The origin of stereotypes.

Day 3 Black Unicorns

2018-07-14 16:13:22 UTC

Crossed game

Day 3 Oranges

2018-07-14 16:14:07 UTC

- Oranges are happy today
- Tibor: energizers ;)

Day 3 - Green Peas

2018-07-14 16:14:43 UTC

- Dialogue about what we agree and disagree;
- Broadening our minds with others' critical thinking;
- Cultural differences and finding about other countries history.

Day 3 Oranges

2018-07-14 16:15:27 UTC

- During the game of AGREE with the people close to us

Day 3 - Green Peas

2018-07-14 16:16:54 UTC

- The "not useful" things that we are finding every day are minor — so we think that people are feeling kind of forced to answer this question.

Day 3 Oranges

2018-07-14 16:17:22 UTC

- We could have played the fork+knife game a bit longer and get more frustrated ;)

Day 3 Black Unicorns

2018-07-14 16:17:36 UTC

Scale
Media lab

Day 3 Black unicorns

2018-07-14 16:18:45 UTC

We tend to have the same answers for useful and important
Maybe in the future you could use an imaginary country. It would maybe allow more creativity and made the questions less complex

Day 3 - Green Peas

2018-07-14 16:22:27 UTC

- Some elements think that the media labs are going in a positive direction; but some others think that there is still room for improvement (especially the people who are more shy);
- Drinking together last night brought us together;
- The agree/disagree game showed us who has the same views we do;
- (More) connection to the causes we are working on.

Day 3 - Green Peas

2018-07-14 16:28:39 UTC

- Levels of participation should have had a social media context;
- We should have been asked to bring our computers before we came here — setting up accounts in phones is ok but it becomes difficult to write longer posts.

Day 3 - The Hungriest

2018-07-14 16:35:51 UTC

Knife&fork game with explanation of participation
Stereotype lecture with papers and tasks
Discovery of stereotypes with the pictures
Barometer exercise with statements

Day 3 - The Hungriest

2018-07-14 16:37:45 UTC

Food was better
Modes of participation tool was interesting
practical examples of dilemma actions were great

Day 3 -The Hungriest

2018-07-14 16:38:27 UTC

Amount of participation during stereotype lecture was a bit misplaced. Some pax were just waiting to be called out rather than listening and not everyone got to participate

Day 3 - The Hungriest

2018-07-14 16:40:13 UTC

Party was a good way to interact
Trainers came to table during media lab which was good
barometer exercise was a good way of learning more about eachother

Day 3 - The Hungriest

2018-07-14 16:41:17 UTC

Maybe move afternoon program 30 min (start 1530, end after reflection 1900) to get more time to go to TESCO, hang out, nap, whatever
Maybe propose some "extra curricular" work for groups who finish Media Lab tasks a bit earlier.

Day 5 Black Unicorns

2018-07-16 16:36:31 UTC

Presentation about visuals
Canva 👍

Day 5 Black Unicorns

2018-07-16 16:39:08 UTC

Same

Day 5 Black Unicorns

2018-07-16 16:39:42 UTC

This question

Oranges Day 5

2018-07-16 16:39:52 UTC

The hours changes
Photography and targeting

Day 5 Black Unicorns

2018-07-16 16:40:17 UTC

Canva
The plumber
Media lab group

Oranges Day 5

2018-07-16 16:40:55 UTC

The dividing tasks in the groups
The examples of photography and analysing those steps

Day 5 Black Unicorns

2018-07-16 16:41:24 UTC

Too many tasks, bad for quality

Day 5 - Green Peas

2018-07-16 16:42:08 UTC

- Photography session;
- Targeting (posters and CANVA);
- Longer break.

Oranges Day 5

2018-07-16 16:42:32 UTC

Everything today was useful.

Oranges Day 5

2018-07-16 16:42:39 UTC

Photography
Canva

Oranges Day 5

2018-07-16 16:43:09 UTC

Keep the discussions shorter

Day 5 - Green Peas

2018-07-16 16:43:23 UTC

- Realizing that time management did not work — maybe a TC on time management? 😂
- Rules of photography.

Day 5 - Green Peas

2018-07-16 16:45:54 UTC

Everything was useful.

Day 5 - Green Peas

2018-07-16 16:47:17 UTC

- Most of the people were working and communicating better (some groups are still having problems with it);
- Kamila was happy to experiment with Canva and learn more about photography;
- Diana connected with video making;
- SUGGESTION: Café Tradition is great for iced lattes and cool photos!

Day 5 - Green Peas

2018-07-16 16:52:49 UTC

- Division of tasks/engagement did not really work in some groups;
- Too many tasks, too little time.

Day 5 - The Hungriest

2018-07-16 17:53:48 UTC

Media lab theme - getting into practical campaigning
Targeting and visuals practice
Pax presentation of photography and Canva
new timetable
small groups during ERASMUS were useful

Day 5 - The Hungriest

2018-07-16 17:54:56 UTC

Laptop vs. tasks - there were too many tasks for the amount of laptops in groups, and it was frustrating to not be able to finish
The small Canva groups worked well

Day 5 - The Hungriest

2018-07-16 17:57:04 UTC

The need of laptop to be able to finish all tasks for media lab
The photo session was a bit un-interactive and it would have been nice for more pax to try doing photography

Day 5 - The Hungriest

2018-07-16 17:58:14 UTC

The groups for media lab is working well
the task division worked well
it seems that the group was low energy today

Day 5 - the Hungriest

2018-07-16 17:59:35 UTC

The questions for feedback felt they were a bit too on the nose.
new song for learning hat dance
Maybe tier the tasks for the Media Lab (do 1 of 2 tasks and both if you have time)
it would be nice to announce the open space a bit ahead of time for the pax involved for them to have more time thinking session through
it would be nice to get feedback from the NGO market
maybe change some of the tasks for media lab for tasks not needing laptop

Day 6 Black Unicorns

2018-07-17 16:46:09 UTC

Value system
Spiral of dynamics
Having to reply to fake news
Filming

Day 6 - Green Peas

2018-07-17 16:48:39 UTC

- Value system and spiral dynamics;
- How fake news work and discovering websites where you can fact-check;
- Maslow and Graves.

Day 6 Black Unicorn

2018-07-17 16:49:23 UTC

Same

Day 6 Oranges

2018-07-17 16:49:38 UTC

- Session about values and needs, spiral dynamics

Day 6 Black Unicorns

2018-07-17 16:50:10 UTC

Fake news exercisewas a bit confusing because of lack of explanation

Day 6 Black Unicorns

2018-07-17 16:51:31 UTC

Spirals
Fake news reply
Social media tools

Day 6 - Green Peas

2018-07-17 16:52:24 UTC

- Self-awareness (spiral dynamics);
- Learn how to work on a multiple-pace work setting;
- Managing the need for perfectionism;
- Kamila: how your motivation to change the world changes with the environment.

Day 6 Black Unicorns

2018-07-17 16:53:53 UTC

We understand the time pressure, but it would have been better if we could have tried everything

Day 6 Oranges

2018-07-17 16:58:41 UTC

- We would welcome more explanation in terms of checking the fake news - it was a bit difficult to work with it on phones (we had the links but was not sure how to work with them)

Day 6 Oranges

2018-07-17 17:00:02 UTC

- the spiral and "colorful" excercise (where we see ourselves on the spiral

Day 6 - Green Peas

2018-07-17 17:00:18 UTC

- The song "Thunder" — IT LOST ITS POWER ALREADY!

Day 6 - Green Peas

2018-07-17 17:01:15 UTC

- Working in group;
- Understanding "the bigger picture" through the color exercise we did: we understood everyone's positions (towards themselves, their surroundings and the community we created this week); and the conversations that followed were important too;
- Fact-checking — good for future reference.

Day 6 Oranges

2018-07-17 17:01:40 UTC

- We might prefer having more freedom regarding the campaing - the tasks were very specific

Day 6 Oranges

2018-07-17 17:04:49 UTC

- Connection within the groups

Day 6 - Green Peas

2018-07-17 17:05:12 UTC

- Be more clear about the exercises;
- Workload: not balanced — yesterday we had a lot to do, today was more balanced.

Day 6 - The Hungriest

2018-07-17 18:23:52 UTC

Day 6 - The Hungriest

2018-07-17 18:24:12 UTC

Ondra - we love him
Responding to fake news was interesting

Day 6 -The Hungriest

2018-07-17 18:24:32 UTC

Fake news was objectively good, but outside area of interest
maybe second part (fact checking) could be clearer

Day 6 - The Hungriest

2018-07-17 18:24:57 UTC

It's sad that the Media Lab group really started to get going at the last day
I love our group
Group dynamic was similar to yesterday, it's getting more and more fun

Day 6 - The Hungriest

2018-07-17 18:25:29 UTC

Maybe change format of reflection hat a bit more
Post Media Lab summary could be more clear with more intent
Maybe make Fake News exercise more clear (eg. with handout of how to deconstruct news or tips and tricks to get going)