Today was an excellent full day of learning at the workshop on gender topics with our Colombian expert Amanda. She had helped us out in November 2012 and today proved to be a great facilitator with talents to be a "stand-up comedian" while making the participants think and discuss complicated topics based on so much of human history.
We had about 30 participants and they were instructors, social workers, pedagogy experts and regional government representatives. In some of the wild-west gold-rush mining communities we have as targets in our EFE Colombia program, there are no shortage of relevant case studies.
Amanda used a lot of relevant historic information and mixed it with lots of humor on the topic of gender. Those moments are a real test for my own Spanish knowledge, but I got most of it... :-)
Before lunch Amanda put three groups at work to describe three generations of gender relations: our grand-parents, our parents and our own generation.
The lunch was served in the training kitchen of SENA's local culinary program and the food was so nice (and the company was so good) that I completely forgot to make some photos.....
The setting of this campus is in a beautiful historic building with sensational flora right in the building's patios. The building is located in the historic city - a UNESCO monument - where you can find year-round tourism.
After lunch the groups presented their discussions on the three generations and Amanda did a masterful job intervening and guiding the group's ensuing discussions.
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