Working with Three Groups

This week I have spent approximately 14 hours in total in doing my placement. It is a very busy week for me, especially in terms of doing placement, I feel I have finished most creative part of my work and that’s also the hardest part because this part gives me direction so that I can keep working on the practical details later.

Generally speaking I have come up with the main outlines for all the three workshops this week with the help of my brilliant and kind colleagues. I spent one hour searching for materials and organizing ideas before each workshop discussion, and I spent six hours discussing those ideas and designing the process with three different groups of people for three workshops, so for each group we have a two-hour discussion. After the discussion for each workshop I spent one hour writing the workshop plan so that we keep a track on what we have already done, plus it’s easier to keep working on the details later. Besides the twelve hours that I used on the concrete content of my placement, I also used another two hours doing my reflection and writing my blog.

Since I have already put all the details that we come up with in another word document, I will focus on reflection of my work here in my blog. The most interesting part that I have reflected from this week’s work is how different it can be to work with different groups of people. It is related to both cultural backgrounds and personalities. I have worked with five of my classmates who are from five different countries, namely Mexica, UK, Columbia, Indonesia and Bangladesh, and each of them have various experiences. I can strongly feel the difference in communication and ways of solving problems among them. Such work is also a big challenge for me in terms of intercultural communication. I personally feel listening to other people’s idea with respect is the best key to solve most problems in intercultural communication. 

Next week I will work on details of the workshop plan and I will also meet my colleagues and discuss deeper about how we will manage to facilitate three very different workshops.
Here I attach the picture of facilitators for workshop two.




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