March 22 2015:
Talking to the experts: This reflection is based on two 'expert-led' session I have attended this month.
UNESCO representative of campaigning:
Mariana and I attended a talk on campaigning as our first endomitreosis campaign could have been improved in many ways. This talk wasn't highly informative due to the lack of time, however, I learned that to conduct a successful campaign an overall issue must be narrowed down (cone like structure). It's vital to specify so that the target audience knows the point of the campaign, and the message given is straight forward and deep therefore provoking thought and potentially change. There isn't downright recipe for a perfect campaign, because depending on the issue and the issue and target audience, the structures of a campaign must be shifted to adapt the environment. A point that wasn't throughly addressed, was the bridge between campaigning and taking action, because while campaigning is great and raises awareness about an issue, it is vital to take action towards it and solve the issue. The bridge between campaigning and taking action is one that many campaigns fail to make, because while we can educate, we cannot influence the free-will of an individual and make them act a certain way. In my opinion, I think that change starts off with campaigning however, ends with initiating action and I feel like more often than not it's hard to raise-awareness to inspire action for a long period of time.
Leadership talk:
This workshop was extremely beneficial, because it answered all the subconscious questions I had about leadership. I was able to connect with other leaders in the grade and out fo the grade, to get an insight on the problems all of us collectively face. I learned about the SCARF acronym for leadership.
Status, Creativity, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness. I personally believe that autonomy is the most influential one to the way i lead, because i believe in equal power for everyone who deserves it. The age/grade hierarchy that comes with leadership in our school is quite limiting, even though it is slowly disappearing many leaders are still students in IB1 or IB2. I also learned that delegating isn't an easy task and have faced problems delegating myself, and end up doing all the work so that it get's done. Similar to campaigning, there isn't a recipe for perfect leadership, and it changes as time goes by depending on the people you have to lead and how passionate you are about a project. This workshop cleared my head, and has made leadership an entity that i can now begin to grasp better, by implementing the "SCARF" in T-GO, and potentially inspiring others from the passion i have for feminism (that is if they aren't passionate about the issue already, which most of them are).
Talking to the experts: This reflection is based on two 'expert-led' session I have attended this month.
UNESCO representative of campaigning:
Mariana and I attended a talk on campaigning as our first endomitreosis campaign could have been improved in many ways. This talk wasn't highly informative due to the lack of time, however, I learned that to conduct a successful campaign an overall issue must be narrowed down (cone like structure). It's vital to specify so that the target audience knows the point of the campaign, and the message given is straight forward and deep therefore provoking thought and potentially change. There isn't downright recipe for a perfect campaign, because depending on the issue and the issue and target audience, the structures of a campaign must be shifted to adapt the environment. A point that wasn't throughly addressed, was the bridge between campaigning and taking action, because while campaigning is great and raises awareness about an issue, it is vital to take action towards it and solve the issue. The bridge between campaigning and taking action is one that many campaigns fail to make, because while we can educate, we cannot influence the free-will of an individual and make them act a certain way. In my opinion, I think that change starts off with campaigning however, ends with initiating action and I feel like more often than not it's hard to raise-awareness to inspire action for a long period of time.
Leadership talk:
This workshop was extremely beneficial, because it answered all the subconscious questions I had about leadership. I was able to connect with other leaders in the grade and out fo the grade, to get an insight on the problems all of us collectively face. I learned about the SCARF acronym for leadership.
Status, Creativity, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness. I personally believe that autonomy is the most influential one to the way i lead, because i believe in equal power for everyone who deserves it. The age/grade hierarchy that comes with leadership in our school is quite limiting, even though it is slowly disappearing many leaders are still students in IB1 or IB2. I also learned that delegating isn't an easy task and have faced problems delegating myself, and end up doing all the work so that it get's done. Similar to campaigning, there isn't a recipe for perfect leadership, and it changes as time goes by depending on the people you have to lead and how passionate you are about a project. This workshop cleared my head, and has made leadership an entity that i can now begin to grasp better, by implementing the "SCARF" in T-GO, and potentially inspiring others from the passion i have for feminism (that is if they aren't passionate about the issue already, which most of them are).