Workshops at ‘Our European House’ Conference

• Come to gather: The state of the art: How can we design active and democratic citizenship in an aesthetical way? How should the self be linked to Europe and the other?
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  ‘l’Europe c’est moi’
  We invite you to experience active and democratic citizenship in Europe through aesthetical, multiple intelligent and knowledge-based ways.
  As a sense-opener, we watch ‘Come to gather’ and then you will meet ‘Europe’ in 'A Story of Europe'. It is a story about the past, the present and the future, featuring Europe as a young woman of 27 ages. This is an aesthetical, cooperative and profound way to understand the project from the perspective of yourself, the other and Europe. Finally we reflect on the meaning of To-Gather, focussing on human rights (Amnesty).

• The Imagination: How to re-create yourself. You will experience how to use your imagination to focus your creative energy. The result: a well balanced, inspired and more successful person.
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  In this workshop you will experience new ways to develop and preserve your uniqueness in relation to the other and with respect for the other. You will find your own unique set of qualities and talents and learn skills how live up to them. Take your inner self, your imagination and your hidden soul qualities seriously! In this way you feel happier and more balanced and will become a contribution to others and the world as a whole.

• Be Da Vinci: Practice seven talents and learn to think like Leonardo da Vinci. 
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  Seven steps for a creative attitude
  Leonardo da Vinci is truly the global archetype of human potential. We may not be able to achieve his level of genius, but by thinking like he did, we can certainly develop our innate abilities. In his book, “How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci” Michael Gelb invites readers to take some lessons about living from Leonardo da Vinci.
  The Principles:
  - Curiosita’ – an insatiable curiosity
  - Dimostrazione – testing knowledge through experience
  - Sensazione – continued refinement of the senses
  - Sfumato – a willingness to embrace ambiguity
  - Arte/Scienza – developing a balance between art and science
  - Corporalita’ – cultivating fitness and poise
  - Connessione – recognizing and appreciating that all phenomena are connected

• It’s all in the family: All kinds of relations and conflicts within the family are shown in the masque-film. The challenge is to solve problems through role-play.
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  Daily problems at home are always a challenge for both parents and children. Most of the time we stay arguing when we are cross, angry or very happy. In this highly emotional state we lose control of our rational and logical capacities… quite tough! But, how about choosing a new school, moving from primary school to secondary school? Or setting up a family discussion about the next holiday destination or organising a family party? At Jenaplanschool Antonius Abt, the primary school of King William I College, we teach pupils and parents how you can use the deliberate thinking tools of Edward de Bono to cope with these challenging, ‘family moments’. Workshop characteristics:
  - case based learning
  - experience based protocols for direct use at home
  - teamwork
  - highly interactive

• You can leave your hat on: There are many different ways to react on trouble. You learn to wear the different hats of Edward de Bono. 
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  Thinking ‘out of the box’ with the six hats of Edward de Bono to cooperate more effectively and creatively
  Worldwide the six thinking hats of Edward de Bono are used to make meetings more effective and creative. The approach is about thinking in one direction with amazing results. This constructive harmony model is also used at Koning Willem I College in the primary and the secundary process of primary and professonal education, but also according to management.
  This workshop offers you:
  - Own experience in using the six hats
  - An effective instrument for the practice of tomorrow
  - A lot of action
  - An ‘other’ look at cooperating
  - A lot of fun!

• Good Work: Let’s take a look at the world around the self, the family and the friends. We talk about how to design the own natural environment in an aesthetical, engaged and ethical way.  
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  Environmental identity
  The main purpose of our work-shop is to present the route Good Work-Environmental Identity. The aim of this route is to show how our surroundings and especially nature influence our life and how we as modern human beings influence nature and our surroundings. This mutual and dialectic condition is an essential quality in our life. Environmental identity is how we are influenced by different kind of environments for instance nature, design and architecture and at the same time it is about how we care about nature and how we interact and construct our surroundings. It is about how we recognise the other in the same or different environments, and about awareness of the meaning of the nature and the importance of caring for the place and the environment where we live. Good work and environmental identity includes developing of responsibility toward the questions and problems that are actual in modern society.
  Through a structure based on eight places with eight different core qualities we try to construct an environment which present the concept of the mutual affection, which main idea is to care for nature’s needs and the need of ourselves and others.This includes also the responsibility to step into a dialogue. In the workshop we will try to use the social constructivistic didactic model known from the “To-Gather-project” as the seven step model.
  After a short sense opener, informations about the concept and practical guidance it is the intention that participants in this workshop will be working with eight different places in eight different groups. This work should hopefully end up with eight very interesting places “to visit”.

• Crossing Borders: In Europe many people move from the land that lives inside to the land of arrival. Your guide will be little dragon Mu who comes to Europe and experiences the strange land.
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  Mobility and migration
  Mobility and Migration is the problem in society in all Europe. Especially the youth want to migrate to other place in Europe. Questionnaires (about 700 students) help us to understand the past, the present and the future linked in reality and theory. What does all this mean for young people? The young people would be possible to learn about Mobility and Migration from Dragon Mu -drama theatre. The main multi-cultural norms and the values(about family, attitude to others,e.t.c.) inside the framework everybody will meet in this journey. How may ‘the multiple choice identity’ be prepared in and outside school for ‘the multiple society’ in the future?

• Make your mix: You can go shopping in different philosophies of life (‘theofiction’) and make your own cultural mix.
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  Theofiction
  There are different levels in getting to know others (and yourself). A religion or lifestance is a very intimate quality of a person. In route five of To-Gather we try to get some insight in the thoughts and motives of others and self. Values-development, values-communication and learning creatively and respectfully about religions and lifestances is what we will practice in this workshop. Theofictions made by our students will be shown as examples.

• Identities in India: We explore mobility and changing/adapting identities. Does geographical mobility also entails cultural, linguistic, and psychological mobility?.
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  Identity in Mobility
  In a fast moving world, travelling has become commonplace. As students, researchers, teachers, artistes, tourists travel, they come in contact with different people of different nationalities, speaking different languages, with different cultural backgrounds. It is a point of discussion that geographical mobility also entails cultural, linguistic, and psychological mobility. To what extent does the traveller imbibe the culture of the other if at all he imbibes it? How much of adaptation, how much of rejection? Is this metamorphosis in identity measurable? And when one returns to one's land of origin, how much of the other has one retained, adopted, made part of one's own culture?? How does one acquire crosscultural skills ? These questions and topics or interest will be discussed in this workshop.

• The Euro-Mediterranean House: We experience cultural diversity around the Mediterranean Sea.
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  The intercultural dialogue
  In the workshop we will talk about different cultures and how they may cooperate in Europe. The focus is on the area around the Mediterranean Sea, the former Roman Empire and on the meaning for young people in the future.

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