rural codes
Making Ripples
Posted 8 December 2017 by Ideenhochdrei IN / 0 responses
Do you remember the feeling of throwing a pebble and let it jump across the surface of a quiet water? One, two, three, four, yeahh! That´s how we found out how making ripples can be fun. In Septemeber 2017 a group of 20 Europeans came together to find out how […]
Fishing for dreams
Posted 20 November 2017 by Ideenhochdrei IN / 0 responses
Thursday afternoon, the park where we prepared a small stage, chairs and tables is slowly filling with people. We invite them to write down their dreams on little coloured cards and hang them on the rose bushes, our “garden of dreams”. A group of OASIS participants has been out all day with […]
Active listening as a path to inviting people to join Collado Mediano’s Talentshow
Posted 30 October 2017 by Ideenhochdrei IN / 0 responses
Today, on the 2nd full day of the program, we did an exercise to practice active listening before going out into the community to collect the stories and talents that lie behind the beauties that we discovered yesterday in the Appreciative Gaze phase. So we were continuing with the Affection […]
Affection: experiences of how to approach people and build connections
Posted 20 October 2017 by Ideenhochdrei IN / 0 responses
It is Tuesday, the first whole day of the OASIS. Our task: To go out into the village, looking for beauties, talents and stories. How to approach people? For some people it seems to be really easy to involve each and everybody into a casual conversation. Not for me. Welcome […]