Unit E.2.1 Writing your post-workshop story
Writing your post workshop story
Writing your post workshop story
Writing your post workshop story
The work and effort that you put in preparing for and seeing your workshop to completion is a big achievement that must be celebrated. Congratulations! Now, to further enrich your experience, writing a story about your workshop will help concretise this for yourself and others.
Think about it, by sharing your knowledge and skills, you have made a positive impact on others’ lives. Through your knowledge, you can help others develop both professionally and personally. Also, documenting your workshop experiences can help empower you to continue to share your knowledge and as a consequence, strengthen your skills along the way.
By sharing your story to the wider e-VELP community, it will inspire others to do the same, scaling your impact to even greater heights.
Post-Workshop Story Guide Questions
In order to create your post-workshop story, here are some guide questions that could help you reflect, create structure, and eventually write about your own workshop experience.
About you:
1) Briefly introduce yourself: Where are you from? What is your study or professional background?
2) What is your driving motivation for sharing your knowledge?
Prepare and plan your workshop:
3) What was the workshop topic?
4) How was your experience and what is your advice in preparing workshop proposals and content?
5) How was your experience and what is your advice in finding a Host organisation?
6) How was your experience and what is your advice in organising your workshop together with the Host organisation?
Executing the workshop and its impact:
7) How many people attended your workshop and what was their background and age group?
8) Do you think that your workshop had an impact in their lives? Did you ask them about it afterwards?
9) What is that special moment you will remember from this time together?
10) How was your experience and what is your advice in executing a workshop?
11) Any additional comments or advice for others who would want to create workshops and Host organisations?
To better help you to write, here are some samples of stories from the TeachSurfing platform: Teaching Meditation in Armenia and Postcards from the Future.
1.Begin by reflecting on the guide questions above and make an outline for your workshop story.
2.Create a 500-word draft of your post-workshop story. Come up with a catchy title and choose a photo from your workshop that would best communicate the experience you and the attendees had.
3.Optionally ask a friend or other participant to review your draft.
4.Share this in your TeachSurfing profile. First watch this video on how to post a story on teachsurfing.org.
