WAR in Roparnäs succeeded

At Sunday evening me, Veronika, Minerva and Dalle arrived in Björköby, Korsholm, where I grew up. We also stayed there during the 3 days we were in Ostrobothnia. We started planning for the project prosecution for the following day.

At Monday morning when we arrived to the classroom in Novia where we would be during the day, were there already students waiting for us.

We started off with a check in, where the students told about their mood and where they were from, since it was a multicultural group, we were interested to know. The group, NU12, was curious about what we were going to do and they were very polite.

When the real work started I kicked off with the communication workshop. The workshop was about actively listening, straight communication and how to handle conflicts in a group. Minerva, Veronika and Dalle filled me in if they also had a point with something I said or different examples. We helped each other J NU12 asked questions when they did not understand or wanted us to help them find a solution to their problem, if they had one. They gave us different examples and asked how to do in those kinds of cases. It was really interesting too for us, since they also said that they would not do it in that way that we suggested, because of the cultural differences. It was no big things, but still a difference, that was really interesting to see J

After lunch we started with the more interactive part of the day. We had a four corner value exercise. For each sentence that was read, the students went to a corner, whether they agreed, disagreed, did not know or had an own opinion. Then we discussed the issues and different values. We also had the articles of human rights with us and then the students were supposed to read an article and then have a discussion about it. There were of course many different opinions and the discussion and dialogue when really well. You could see a process from the previous workshop part set in motion already, which also showed us in the projectgroup that we did a good work! J in the check out NU12 told that they appreciated the workshop and left with a happy mood, so did we J

On Tuesday in the check in we found out that the students actually had more expectations than the precious day because it had been so informative, different and fun. Tuesday was reserved for projectwork. We introduced them to all the documents that we are using as tools in the projects and why these are good to know about and how to use them. NU12 got a little confused and there was some frustration, but in the end, the students came up with really nice ideas for a project to do during international nurses day(http://www.icn.ch/publications/2013-closing-the-gap-millennium-development-goals-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1/). Some of them wrote a group contract for their projectgroups and some even did do some more documentation.

NU12 really relied in us, which was also gaining trust for each other. Now we’re keeping in touch so we can help them with the project if they need any. And I am going to be there on international nurses day. We could see the process in their communication just the two days we were there and we are proud of the work we all did together :) 

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