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Mar 18th, 2009 - 00:15:13 | Saad Rajput
feedhello again friends!
so for the final set of workshops in newfoundland, i was thinking that we should organise a post-workshop activity. what i came up with is a plan to distribute TIG material and some form of talking points to the participants. they will then go to their respective neighbourhood businesses and other places and post/distribute the tig material and talk to people about tig. they can then write blogs online informing each other of their experiences.
any ideas?
Mar 18th, 2009 - 00:10:02 | Saad Rajput
so while i was in norway, i attended a workshop on human rights. we spent a day with a very brave and sweet lady name rubab. she is a human rights worker from the occupied western sahara region which has been under moroccan rule. rubab is the winner of this year's student peace prize award for her work. she has been tortured, her friends murdered and her family jailed for her activism.
my friends in the workshop came up with the idea of helping rubab highlight her plight and we have now in the planning stages of launching an international organisation that will enable peace prize winners to travel to countries like Canada and tell their stories to government officials, human rights groups, students, and civil society in an effort to elliviate some suffering in that region.
i introduced (very informally) tig and its tools to the participants and hopefully the project will be launched on tig very soon! i will keep you posted :)
here is a short video rubab recorded on our request.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b45UPLvBJbM
Mar 18th, 2009 - 00:02:20 | Saad Rajput
hey clc-ers!
i am glad to be back to Canada, where clc is hard at work and the beer is cheap! norway and germany were a lot of fun and i truly had an amazing time. i met people like bishop desmond tutu, betty williams, flemming rose (former editor jylland-posten) and hans blix. i actually told betty williams about tig as she was going on and on about this island she aquired for orphans!
i have decided to take the next year off and go to europe. i will now start my masters in 2010. travelling will give me a chance to talk to europeans about clc!
so all of you should apply in 2011 for international student festival in trondheim (isfit)!
Mar 17th, 2009 - 12:42:33 | Jess Wishart
Hey everyone!
I just wanted to direct your attention to a discussion thread I just posted (http://discuss.tigweb.org/thread/36523)
Basically, the thread is seeking TIG member input for the TIG guide to action on mental health. I'm hoping not only to get ideas for content, but also to feature different answers on what people are doing to take action on mental health, as well as what mental health means to them. I think a really cool part of the TIG guides to action is that they have that personal connection. So, what I'm saying is it would be REALLY AWESOME if you guys could respond to the discussion thread, even just a quick answer just to ensure it stays visible. And who knows, you could be immortalized forever in the guide :)
Thanks!!
Mar 15th, 2009 - 19:57:10 | Nyla Obaid
Hey everybody!
I've been so busy with a billion things recently that I haven't had the chance to get around to this yet, but I wanted to share with you all the recent Diversity and Identity workshop that I did with a group of Quebecois youth on a short trip to Toronto. I know Identity isn't necessarily one of the topics that TIG covers but I think it's a wonderful starting point in getting youth inspired and empowered.
I divided up the workshop into three components: exploring self-identity, exploring others identity, and exploring identity issues that might arise in a diverse setting. After the ice breakers, the first activity had to do with them drawing out how they see themselves and then we all shared this information with each other. Afterwards, I asked them to shout out words and expressions about who they thought I was. This was very similar to the activity we did during CLC training (oh so long ago!) at the anti-O training. I used this to show how we judge other people when meeting them and how we assume their identities. The final activity, which was a huge hit with the youth involved them playing "Identity Musical Chairs". Each seat had a type of Canadian (young male black, or blind middle-aged woman, or native 15-year old girl etc) and I read out some situations (buying groceries at a store where all the labels were in Chinese, someone claiming that Canadians are always white etc) and they had to discuss how they would feel from the perspective of their chair. Then, they moved chairs until they got the chance to put themselves in many people's shoes.
The activities all resonated with them well, and I like to think I made a slight positive effect on how they view themselves. They were all also really interested in TIG and opportunities with TIG. If any of you are interested in running similar workshops, please get in touch with me and we can collaborate!
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