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The Global Learning Festival
The Global Learning Festival was held in Mamallapuram which is 60 km to the south of Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Mamallapuram has a variety of historic monuments that are more than 1,000 years old. You can find more details about the history of this remarkable place at this Wikedia page.
Monday 19 November 2012
Meeting of facilitators
The meeting of facilitators took place on Monday afternoon (19 November). Everyone had been invited to take part in the facilitation of the Global Learning Festival (GLF). At the meeting, the schedule for the week was explained and facilitation roles were discussed.
Welcome dinner
The Board of SIAAP welcomed all of us to the Global Knowledge Fair at a Welcome Dinner.
Tuesday 20 November 2012
"We relate to each other as human beings."
What makes us human?
Jean-Louis invited us to share in a small group, made up of people that we had not met before, the essence of what makes us human. We were then asked to feed back to the whole group what we had found to be at the heart of our humanity.
Our experience with CLCP
We were asked to reflect on their experience of the facilitation of CLCP. Our first task was to consider the parts of the process that people found difficult to use or to understand. Our second task was to consider the aspects of the process that they found difficult to facilitate. We then discussed our conclusions in small groups.
Wednesday 21 November 2012
"We appreciate the strength of communities."
We divided into 8 groups and made SALT visits to communities in the districts of Nagapattinam and Tiruvannalmalai.
The day began just as the sun was rising.
Some of us were very fortunate enough to visit the temple town of Tiruvannamalai.
This is the SALT visit to Paramanandal Panchayat.
...and it was dark when it was time for us to leave
You can find more detail on the SALT visits on this page
Thursday 22 November 2012
"We appreciate the strengths of communities and we learn-and-share."
The Market Place
During the night, the car park had been transformed into a Market Place. We now recognised that the organisations where we work are themselves communities and this was the opportunity to appreciate the strengths of our communities and also to learn-and-share with each other.
The AAR (After Action Reflection) of yesterday's SALT visit
We came back into our SALT visit groups and concluded the AARs of yesterday's SALT. We shared our thoughts with the whole group.
You can find more details on the AARs of the SALT visits on this page
The Cultural Evening
We came together for an evening of cultural experiences from India...and around the world
Friday 23 November 2012
'We collect the pearls'
We tell stories and we write them down
We shared a personal experience of Local Response...twice
...and then we wrote it down
Saturday 24 November 2012
'We bring the pearls of wisdom together'
We share our stories and begin to learn from them
We explored our experiences to find common principles that we will bring together to form the basis of Knowledge Assets.
...and then it was time to say our farewells...
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