I was one of the participants on the project “PlayBack to school” held in Budapest,
Hungary in end-August beginning –September 2015.
In my experience I have some other projects where I
participated, and with this time distance, now I can say that this was the most
organized project I have took part so far. During the whole project, every day
was so well planed, from the morning coffee until the closing activities after
the dinner. I really like that every hour of the dynamic days we had, was
fulfilled with interesting activities, so the time just went by.
All of the activities we had during the 8 days of
the project led to an amazing experience and useful skill we all gained at the
end of the project.
On the project, I had a chance to meet many people
with diversity backgrounds. Here I first want to mention people who were big
part of the activities we had during the days. People who came to show us their
skills and to share with us their stories. Now when I look back at those days I
see that all activities were so well planed, so at the end they led us to the
magnificent finish of the project.
Theatrical group that came to show us their skills
with the Playback Theater had a huge contribution on my personal improvement
when it comes to methods of Playback Theater we were learning. It was also
amazing to meet youngsters who came to share their stories and to bring us
closer to the problems many of us could find themselves in and to learn us how
to approach to those problems. Because approaching to the problem sometimes may
be more difficult then the problem itself. All of this, as I mentioned, made us
more prepared for the final day of the project or for its goal – visiting the
youngsters from Reformatory and spend a day with them, while trying to approach
to them and to make them more open to talk about their problems, to arouse
theirs self-esteem and to help them reintegrate in the society.
Getting a chance to spend some hours with these
youngsters form the Reformatory is unlike the experiences I had so far in my
life. An experience I keep telling my friends about. At the Reformatory, during
those hours spent with these youngsters, we, the participants on the project,
worked as a group. We planed our routine, the games we were going to present,
Playback Theater methods we were going to introduce and invite the youngsters
to take an active part, and at the end, we were very proud that all went fine.
I felt so proud of our group that we manage to animate the youngster to take an
active part in all of this, that we as a group manage to bound with them, that we
managed to gain their trust so they felt free to tell us their personal and
touching stories.
As a result of all of the days spent in practicing
theatrical methods, meeting people who came to teach us and to show us, to
share their experience, we had 8 kids whom we mange to make a day better, to motivate
them to stay positive about life and all of the problems they are facing and to
bring them hope for better life. For that, I felt very happy, very proud and
very satisfied.
Some of the methods we learnt on the project I find
very useful in every days life. From all of the methods I especially appreciate
those which learnt me how to bond with people, how to gain their trust, how to
relax them when they fell stressful, and because of that I consider this
project as very big win for my personal and social life.
At the end of this summary, I really like to mention
all of the participants on the project, which I find very dedicated and
motivated during the whole project. With most of them I am still in contact, for
we manage to find a way to bound on different levels and because on different
reasons and similar experiences. As it is common, one cannot find the same
language with every one, but I am proud of the group as whole and on myself
that we had very pleasant 8 days on the project, shared good energy, that we
motivated each other’s and supported when was needed. This is one of many
reasons I mentioned before, why I fell this was life-changing experience for
me.
As conclusion, I would like to add that in my
opinion, all of this that we as a group, and then me as an individual,
experienced was because of the project coordinators who did an excellent job
leading us through this experience. With their help, we manage to learn all the
methods of Playback Theatre and then how to use and implement them. First, we participants
practiced among us, and then we use them in interaction with youngsters from
the Reformatory. However, the most significant job that they did, in my
opinion, is to train us to be more open with each others, to gain each other’s trust, to feel free to open to each others, to share
stories and to bond very close. It is because of them that the energy during
the whole project was perfectly calm, inspirational and trustworthy. ( Ana from Macedonia, 28 years old)
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