After a few weeks of summer break, we – Irene Zavarsky and Gerda Kolb – are happy to once again provide you with bi-weekly contributions on the topic of groups and group dynamics. Of course, the five experts Beate, Paul, Yasemine, Maria and Rudi will be with us again to share their experiences and expertise.
The certificate course has a modular structure, so participants can complete the seminars in any order. It is recommended to attend the compulsory seminar from the module „Fundamentals of Adult Trade Union Education“ at the beginning of the course if possible. In addition, various numbers of seminars from the four modules should be attended:
The certificate course in course guidance is structured in modules, so the seminars can be completed in any order. It is recommended to attend the two obligatory basic seminars „Trade Union Education – What’s that?“ and „Basics Course Support“ at the beginning of the course if possible. Building on this, one seminar from each content module must be completed:
Sometimes it’s not easy to harmonise different things.
Maria is still drawing on her paper when the others arrive. This time they meet in a garden in the city. Beate looks curiously over Maria’s shoulder „What are you doing?“ she wants to know. Maria sighs and explains that she is trying to form small groups for a course, but is getting nowhere. She would like as many diversity categories as possible to be taken into account and the small groups to be as heterogeneous as possible.
This time we’re going to let it rip! That’s right, it’s about conflicts in the group. What do I do when everyone is arguing? What is a conflict and how do I deal with it as a group leader or facilitator? Is a conflict always loud? And what do I do when there is no solution?
Ein Strandurlaub in Griechenland oder doch lieber einen Städtetrip in die Toskana? Die derzeitigen Urlaubsplanungen sind ungewiss und offen, aber wir helfen euch, Sightseeing der etwas anderen Art zu genießen. 😉
Which ingredients does the “magic potion” countervailing power consist of?
cc: Philip Taucher
We all know the stories of Asterix and Obelix, who, with a mixture of belligerence, self-confidence, shrewdness, cunning and not to forget the dosed use of their magic potion, defy the superiority of the Romans again and again and stand up to them in their legendary Gallic village. There is also a superiority in the conflict of interests between capital and labour. It is an asymmetrical, unequal struggle for participation and fair distribution under capitalist conditions. This makes it all the more important to know exactly what the ingredients are and to be able to analyse them, from which we can brew our „magic potion“ „countervailing power“.
Sometimes groups can be too much for the trainers themselves. Our case group is discussing in the park today whether this is something that can be shown or not. They are obviously in the storming phase again.
Where do I start? In a world where so many things don’t seem the same as they did a few weeks ago? With a hint that we celebrate 30 issues of #visdo with this blog post? I’ve decided not to put too much emphasis on one or the other topic this time, but instead to give you a tool to celebrate the small #visdo anniversary – to find the right words in a time when many discussions are shifting to the online world and there’s so much to say. And that with comics!