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01630 Saint-Genis-Pouilly
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Gemmes workshops
Our workshops
Gemmes workshops take place either during schools hours or as part of extra-curricular activities. For the time being, they are only offered in France and Switzerland (in French). They are deep and interactive workshops for young people aged 12 to 24. They provide an opportunity to explore a number of themes, enabling them to better understand themselves as individuals and as part of a group, to analyze their environments, and to become agents of change for the collective well-being.
Our workshops have been developed around four main pillars: Réflexion, Inspiration, Action et Arts.
WHY INTROSPECTION ?
Before you can understand the outside world, you need to understand what is happening inside yourself.
In our society, we generally work the opposite way round: first we learn about a subject, or how to do a job, or the way the world works, and only much later do some people start a process of “personal development”. As a result, opportunities for introspection are often offered or adapted exclusively to adults.
However, self-knowledge ought to be an integral part of learning offered to young people, especially during such a crucial and complex period as adolescence.
Why Inspiration ?
Inspiration feeds our interaction with the world and gives us momentum. Inspiration starts by looking at and connecting with what is around us.
Then we try to understand, analyse, and feel what clicks with us: observing what disturbs us, what excites us, what we would like to change, what we would like to participate in.
Why Action ?
Wanting change and imagining it are important steps. However, we need to be able to move on to achieving real and collective change, each at his or her own level, in order to live it fully.
If the Gemmes workshops offer keys to transforming young people’s ideas into action, you are already becoming active by participating in the program.
Why Arts ?
The arts are at the heart of the Gemmes programs because they links concepts together and illustrate them in a different and often more accessible way. The arts help participants to connect with their emotions, and to express them to convey a stronger message.
The arts also stimulate our thinking in a different way, calling on our imagination and creativity. It is also a call to action, moving us forward and transforming an idea or message into reality. Last but not least, artistic activities are a time of unity and shared joy.
Format and workshops
When Gemmes workshops are facilitated within middle or high schools (in France and Switzerland), they are combined to the SPARKS program as part of a full year program (“Parcours Gemmes” in French).
When Gemmes workshops are facilitated outside schools, they can be combined and organized over one to five days. They are suitable to young people between 12 and 24.
“Building courage in me” workshop
Assist participants to :
- Understand courage: grasping its different aspects to use it in everyday life.
- Embrace challenges: gaining a better understanding of how one functions personally to better face adversity.
- Boost self-confidence: encouraging self-esteem and awareness of one's ability to act.
The workshop is divided into several themes, presented at the start of the session. Each notion is then worked on in plenary or in small groups through individual and collective reflection exercises.
Standard format: half-day
Extensive format: full day
- Take a positive view of oneself
- Develop a growth mindset and greater confidence in one’s ability to learn and improve
- Better understand the difference between courage and unnecessary risk-taking
- Dare to accept the challenge of learning, to commit despite unpleasant feelings, the uncertainty of the outcome, and the potential but measured danger it entails
- Become aware of, name, understand, and regulate one’s emotions
- Increase one’s capacity to act by developing self-compassion
- Know how to ask for help
- Boost perseverance and value the sense of effort
- Celebrate personal achievements (gems discovered or polished) and those of others
"The World and Me” Workshop
Encourage participants to think about their inner qualities, their relationship to others, their place in the world, and the role they can play in improving their environment.
This workshop is based on the SPARKS material but facilitated directly by the Gemmes team. Participants are invited to question themselves through discussion, games and the sharing of experiences. The session concludes with the construction of positive solutions that can be applied at their own level.
4 to 8 hours per pair of themes.
- "Empathy and Responsibility"
- "Identity and Inclusion"
- "Resilience and Collaboration"
- "Social Justice and Solidarity"
"Video for change" Workshop
In a small group, produce an inspiring one-minute video to raise individual and collective awareness of a social issue.
Each participant is asked to :
• Find a theme that interests and inspires all group members
• Learn to be a source of positive solutions in line with the chosen theme
• Transform their thoughts into action, cultivating creativity and courage
• Learn to organize as a group
• Learn to search for information
• Learn new tools and different ways of expressing yourself
Each group is supported in its choice of theme and approach. Participants are guided and assisted by a facilitator, but encouraged to organize themselves independently.
6 à 8 6 to 8 hours.
• Choice of theme and construction of message
• Storyboard creation and introduction to filming
• Guide to finding information
• Defining roles and creating content
• Finishing editing with the Gemmes video editor
"Slam poetry" Workshop
To express and embody societal themes in an artistic language.
The program is adapted to the level of participants.
During the first sessions, participants are encouraged to work on poetic writing and expression. The approach is both individual and collective. The texts are then set to music, and recorded for the creation of a unique collective piece.
6 to 8 hours.
• Creative writing
• Training in declamation
• Recording and setting to music
Gemmes facilitators including one specialized in slam poetry.
Contribution
The price of the workshops depends on their duration, the number of facilitators required and the location.
At Gemmes, we don't want price to be a barrier to participation. If necessary, Gemmes can subsidize certain partners who are unable to pay the full cost of the workshops.
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