Within our constant efforts to offer LAH facilitators and history teachers who are also potential facilitators in the future, a series of workshops have been conducted around different topics. They included a range of energizing and educational activities that helped everyone make the best out of this learning experience.
This program comprised of the following:
- Enhancing facilitation skills offer that offered the opportunity to gather and reflect on their best practices, learn further and share some fun moments!
- Emotional Intelligence and Body Language; its impact in the workplace and how we can work on improving our social skills, communication tools and manage our emotions!
- Dealing with the Past and Memory of War workshops in collaboration with forumZFD and STEPS; although they are controversial topics, it is important to go through this experience as part of the healing process and use it as a means to keep an open mind in a diverse country like Lebanon.
We have all lived the war in Lebanon in one way or another; whether we have gone through it physically or not.
The sessions and activities targeted several topics like the memory of the civil war, conflict patterns, and multi-perspectivity. Several group work activities and role-play sessions helped in better understanding of our identity on a personal level to its impact on a group of people who are coming from different environments and backgrounds, in addition to understanding the art of communication during conflict and helped in maintaining a tolerant approach towards different narratives of the war rather than focusing on our personal experiences and one coherent narrative, all of which reflected the real image of Lebanon: A community that has a lot in common yet very diverse.
All workshops were very fruitful and collaborative and reflected a very positive teamwork spirit among the participants.
