Hungarian summer projects

Panka´s project

What? Team building weekend for my Foreign Affairs Committee (of my university) at Lake Balaton. 

For whom? My target group was a group of university students (between 19-26), we were 9 of us. 

Goals: My aim was to get know their needs and expectations and their feedbacks about my work, because I'm the leader of our Foreign Affairs Committee and I want to improve the team for more efficient future cooperation.

Flow: Basically I started our sessions with energizers and in order to get know each other more (and our new member) we played some get-to-know-each-other games, name games, etc. 

Output: So far I can say it worked, because those who participated the weekend are really active, 100% members of the committee, I feel they take more responsibility and care of our programs and activities with the Erasmus students.

Trip to the Middle of the Sun

What? 3-day training course in a small Hungarian village, Mátranovák 

When? At the beginning of August 2015.

For whom? This training is made for NGO’s workers and youth workers of a group of 15-20, to help them to raise their self-awareness and social sensitivity.

What is it about? The training leads the participant to a fabulous world of tales and adventures where they can connect with nature, themselves and their resources. We are working with the methods of folk therapy, experiential learning, and the Hero’s Journey model by Joseph Campbell. The weekend has a frame of a Hungarian folk tale, and with the activities participants are led through the whole tale, where they are going through the stage of the Hero’s Journey process, the departure, the initiation and the return.

The departure has the main phases of ‘the call to adventure’, ‘refusal of the call’, ‘supernatural aid’, ‘crossing of the first threshold’, which are followed by the steps of the initiation, ‘the road of trials’, ‘meeting the mentor’, ‘temptation’, and ‘the ultimate boon’. And the main elements of the return are ‘refusal of the return’, ‘the magic flight’, ‘crossing the return threshold’,’master of the two worlds’ and the ‘freedom to live’.

The learning process of the training are supported by various solo and group activities, such as storytelling, campfire, inner journey, guided visualisation, games, group challenges and hiking.