Outcome of the 'Communicate Yourself!' Workshop

This intensive and enriching workshop was facilitated by Kosha Anja Joubert and Martin Stengel in the ecovillage of Sieben Linden. 26 Participants from 18 countries had come to share their ideas, cultivate their communication skills, and to practise facilitating and harvesting group conversations. The program contained not just lectures but a lot of exercises, and also provided useful tools to help community building in the future. The participants stayed in contact after the course to support each other's projects the best they can.

Here comes the memory of Arzu, a participant from Turkey:

I want to thank deeply  from my heart to all people who helped to make this workshop happen. It was an extraordinary week full of richness with diverse people from different cultures, countries and ages who were ready to learn, share and open their hearts and minds. 

The curriculum, tools and  flow of the course were built  very well so it worked  as a unique learning experience . An excellent safe space was built by the training facilitators - dear Kosha and Martin - and their excellent co-leading skills helped us a lot to explore edges and climb the ladder with one or more giant steps.  Thank you very much for your passion, incredible effort and high enthusiasm, Kosha and Martin. The result and the process were both extraordinary. 

I also feel gratitude towards the Grundtvig program, the Sieben-Linden Community, all people who worked for this workshop and who we couldn’t meet face to face. I still wonder how it was possible to select the participants so perfectly - excellent selection and decision making process. A perfect diversity helped to built a group of rich knowledge, skills, experiences, creativity and possibility.  I charged my batteries sustainably with joy, passion, love, knowledge, hope and peace. I regained my hope and confidence to world peace. We were able to create peace in ourselves, peace in the group and peace in the future world. The seeds have been planted now. I strongly believe that each seed will be a giant tree everywhere Europe, full of new life. I have experienced it fully with our group.  Yes, most of us feel like we are a tribe now. This workshop expanded every participants joy, courage and hope. I was full of inspiration and creativity, felt great connection to my true self, to the group and to the divine.  I think the environment at Sieben Linden helped and magnified the workshop effect very much. The size of the Sieben Linden Eco-Village is excellent for this type of experimental learning . You can easily feel at home. The hospitality of the community members, their patience with us, excellent healthy food and no mobile phone disruptions around were creating a wonderful learning and living environment surrounded by people who walk their talks. 

I experienced a deep feeling of unity and peace at Sieben Linden. I have witnessed that almost all participants had the similar thoughts and feelings. All of us were creating plans just to be executed when we arrive to our own communities. It was like a miracle. I know that there is a giant people and community investment behind this - grateful to all.

And the trees at Sieben-Linden are quite special to me. They are great teachers there, ready to share their wisdom with you.  The beauty of nature, community, trainers and anyone involved to make this happen were just a perfect combination.  I have participated in many workshops . This became my number one, maybe it is just a coincidence, I don’t know. All I know now is that  I communicate from my true self very easily, understand all creatures more deeply, started to sing and dance. And it is still with me and seems it will stay with me. What else can I expect from a week  long workshop? 

If the majority of the people all over the world had a chance to participate in this kind of workshop I couldn’t imagine how the world would be? 

With gratitude,

Arzu Kutan