tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90390571749428246942024-03-05T13:43:32.454-08:00Decision Making 2014decisionmaking2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/16159054119072905764noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039057174942824694.post-1309443100630324762014-12-10T08:22:00.000-08:002014-12-15T06:18:28.503-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Erasmus + Project „THINK FAST, THINK</b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">DECIDE WELL, BE STRONG!” concluded!</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“THINK FAST, THINK SLOW, DECIDE WELL, BE STRONG!” that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">finished the 1st of November. We received 24 Baltic participants from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latvia and Lithuania. Here you have a summary of what we did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the preparation, each participant organization made its own activities in its </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">country to prepare participants to the exchange and to spoke about the ideas for the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">activities to do. Baltics watched a movie about Spain culture. We were also going </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">through the application of the project to understand better what we are going to do </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">before and during the exchange. We had also an explanation about what is Youth pass </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the different parts of the certificate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We reflected about what does the name of the Project „Think fast, Think slow, decide </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">well, be strong”. For example in Latvia everybody wrote down what first came up to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">their mind when hearing a sentence as Think fast, think slow and so on. People had </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">various thoughts about it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On September 25th our 24 Baltic guests arrived. The first decision making workshop </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in Madrid was about different competences of decision-making. There were discussed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">competences, including communication in foreign languages, digital competence, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">learning to learn and cultural awareness and expression</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday, September 26, participants had a very thought provoking meeting with one </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of Spain's most prominent lawyers – Efrén Díaz. In this hour long talk Efren </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">highlighted the many difficult decisions he has had to make in his career as well as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gave the participants tips on how to tackle any difficult decision His talk was centred </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on 3 stories from his personal experience. After the meeting with the advocate, we </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">had the activity “Responsible decision-making” a video debate based on the movie </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Vertical limit". Kristaps had prepared it very well, and the result was quite </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">interesting. Kristaps was animating the debate, which was quite hot: At the end of this </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">activity we understood better the importance of having strong set of values and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">criteria (“thinking slow”) that allow taking difficult decisions rapidly when necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the following days we had many other activities. For example, to learn how to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">make good decisions under time pressure, we took part in an activity called "Paper </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">house building". During the development of a project, there are many situations in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which the team should make a decision. Usually, there is not much time, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">decisions should be taken quickly. This activity consists in building a little house with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just a few tools: some sheets of paper, a pair of scissors, some adhesive, and a pencil. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By this activity, we learnt about the importance of listening to all the members of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">group, in order to optimize the potential and the talent of each one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did also sports and an excursion in the mountains prepared by ourselves. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Especially for Baltic participants this was a very interesting moment, because in their </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">homeland there are not such big mountains as in Spain. We had to take care of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">logistic of the excursion, and everything went very well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the end of the exchange we made a presentation of the project at school El Prado, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in Madrid. During the meeting with our mates from the school we told about our trip </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from its beginning, and also about the possibilities offered by the program Erasmus +.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back home we prepare the material for the dissemination of the results of the project: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a video that Latvians prepared in collaboration with a professional of the field, and a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">blog that Lithuanians prepared in collaboration with Latvian and Spanish participants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here you can consult the main results of the project: the blog and the video created by </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the participants about the project and the exchange.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blog: <a href="http://www.decisionmaking2014.blogspot.com/">http://www.decisionmaking2014.blogspot.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFAYsSoS3U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFAYsSoS3U</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was really a good experience; we hope we could do it again!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The project „Think fast, think slow, decide well, be strong!”, Nr. 2014-2-LV02-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KA105-000281, was sponsored by the European Union</span><br />
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decisionmaking2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/16159054119072905764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039057174942824694.post-45963988460677305712014-10-24T15:23:00.001-07:002014-10-24T15:32:44.983-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the end of our trip to Madrid in terms of project "THINK FAST, THINK SLOW, DECIDE WELL, BE STRONG" we have summed what we have done and prepared for presentation at Colegio De Fomento El Prado Madrid. During the meeting with our mates from Colegio we told about our trip from its beginning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a short introduction of countries we came from, we have presented the project in which we are participating. Students were very curious about different activities and workshops we did. The blog that we were preparing at the time and the toolkit that we have showed gained lot of attention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were very happy that our recent experience in decision-making, with new sense of hope and responsibility for decisions we make wherever we are, was needed and kindly greeted.</span><br />
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decisionmaking2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/16159054119072905764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039057174942824694.post-37674527830955818672014-10-24T12:58:00.000-07:002014-10-24T13:04:20.884-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Description of the activity.</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During the
development of a project, there are many situations in which the team should
make a decision. Usually, there is not much time, and decisions should be taken
quickly. To learn how to make good decisions under time pressure, we took part
in an activity called "Paper house building".</span><br />
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consists in building a little house with just a few tools: some sheets of
paper, a pair of scissors, some adhesive, and a pencil. All the teams also received
a list of objectives to reach (i.e., the house had to have a balcony, eight
windows, one stairwell, etc). Each team had fifteen minutes to achieve the
goals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our team,
composed of Spaniards, Lithuanians, and Latvians, took five minutes to think
about the strategy. Several tasks were distributed and all the team began to
work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To design the parts
of the paper-house, we needed a great deal of creativity. An </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">unexpected</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> issue was the communication
process. In order to make this one easy, we spoke in English and appointed a
moderator (Guillermo and Andrew assumed this role).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Other issue
was how to choose among several possibilities. For example, each problem had at
least two or three possible solutions. The decision making process was very
interesting and we learnt a lot with it.</span></div>
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improve the results was:</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 1) </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Thinking
slowly about the strategy to take.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 2)</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Listening to
the proposals of all the members of the group.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 3)</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Defining the
tasks of each member of the group. When all of the members have a well- defined
role in the project, the results improve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 4)Having a group
leader who controls the development of the project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">When the time
was over, all the teams stopped their work. The jury examined all the teams’ paper
houses. At this moment, we found that the results were very different for each
team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The main
objective of team Nr. 1 was to achieve all the requests. However, the quality
of the results was very good. Team Nr. 2 didn't reach the necessary organization
to have a good project. Team Nr. 3 did quite well: in only fifteen minutes they
had built a paper house with sufficient design and good structure: the
objectives were reached.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our team (team
Nr. 4), made a house which didn't achieved all the requests, but the quality of
the construction was extraordinary (excellent designs with a lot of
creativity). As a result, the jury gives to our project the victory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">By this
activity, we learnt about the importance of listening to all the members of the
group, in order to optimize the potential and the talent of each one.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday evening (26<sup>th</sup>), after
the meeting with the advocate, we had the activity <b> </b>Responsible decision-making: Video debate "Vertical limit". Kristaps had prepared it very well, and
the result was quite interesting.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a brief introduction made by
Kristaps, we watched the beginning of the movie (from 0.30 to 6.20 min) in a
big screen. In two words, the plot is as follows: while climbing in Monument
Valley, siblings Peter (O'Donnell) and Annie Garrett (Tunney) lose their
father, Royce (Stuart Wilson). After two falling amateurs leave the family
dangling, Royce forces Peter to cut him loose to save Peter and his sister. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then each participant received a little
sheet of paper, where we had to write our name and our evaluation about the
decision that was made: to cut the rope. We had to write “+” if we agreed, “-“
if we did not agree and “?” if we did not know really. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then on the bases of evaluation 3 groups
were created. Most of participants were in group “+”, just 2 in group “-“ (Emanuels and
Ritvars) and 5 or 6 in the group of indecision. Then each group reflected 3-5
min to make a group opinion about decision made and the two first teams
explained the reasons of their decision, trying to attract the participants
without a clear position. As a result of the debate most of them joined the
group “-“. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kristaps was animating the debate, which
was quite hot: from one side, there was a logical decision making (better just
1 dying than 3 dying), from another side there was the idea that to save 2
persons you have not the right to provoke directly the dead of someone. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kristaps was asking if the decision would
be different if on the top of the rope there was a sick or old person, or if
down the rope there were your own mother or girlfriend.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kristaps also wanted to stress that actors
can be seen as a part of our being: in each decision we do there are the three
elements: the father as the mind, the sister as the feelings, and the son with
the knife as the will with free choice.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of this activity participants understood
better the importance of having strong set of values and criteria (“thinking
slow”) that allow taking difficult decisions rapidly when necessary. The
importance of considering the impact of our decisions in other people as one of
the central criteria in the decisions was stressed. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Emanuels explained us afterwards, we
used in this activity several “learning methods”: video fragments analysis,
emotional learning, guided debates and learning by positioning ourselves in the
debate. It was a very “hot” activity where we learn a good number of things
about decision making, really!!</span></span></div>
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very thought provoking meeting with one of Spain's most prominent lawyers – Efr</span><span lang="ES-TRAD">én Díaz</span><span lang="EN-GB">.
In this hour long talk Efren highlighted the many difficult decisions he has
had to make in his career as well as gave the participants tips on how to
tackle any difficult decision </span>His talk was centred on 3 stories from his
personal experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The first was about his involvement in a case against
tech-giant Google in the widely known ''Right to be forgotten'' case· He
explained, that his success in this particular case was largely based upon his
absolute knowledge of the subject. He stated that in order to succeed you must
know your problem inside out and that the decisions should not be made without
in-depth knowledge of the subject or based on superficial assumptions. For
example, when he had a first meeting with Spanish procurer, American and
European advocates from Google, I was clear that they did not know that the
enterprise that put the incorrect information about his client in the web had
already agreed to retire this information from their website, and that the
information was not anymore available there.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second story he shared with us was about
a last minute problem that arose while he was preparing the location for the
beatification of Alvaro del Portillo. At ten in the mooring of 26<sup>th</sup>
he saw by hazard that on e representative of the place was fighting (discussing
very hotly) with the worker of the enterprise in charge of opening the access.
He went to them and realized that the whole event was in danger because this
little discussion, and he asked to the organizers that authorization to take
the measures to solve the situation, and this was done in the next two hours!!
The moral of this story was that you have to truly care about the projects you
are involved in, you must inquire about it. In short, you have to be fully
involved in whatever you are doing. He also highlighted that one must have a
strong set of moral values in order to make a good decision under pressure.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The final story he chose to share with us
was also related to his involvement in the case against Google. The case had
gotten a lot of attention and he could have acquired a lot of publicity for
himself if he were to have taken the case to a higher court. However, he opted
to keep the case at a lower profile. He chose to do this because it was in the
interest of his client to receive the least amount of publicity possible. So,
the final tip he left us was that sometimes you have to make a decision that is
not in your best interests but is the interests of others. All things
considered it was a very enlightening talk and I can safely say that I am
richer for the experience.. </span></div>
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decisionmaking2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/16159054119072905764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039057174942824694.post-24697106593691671132014-10-18T07:43:00.001-07:002014-12-15T06:19:33.030-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to facilitate the reflection, Emanuels distributed us randomly in five groups of 6-7 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">persons. Each group had to reflect first about one of the key competences of youthpass </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Communication in the mother tongue, Communication in foreign languages, Mathematical </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">competence, digital competence, social and civic competences, cultural expressions, sense of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">initiative and entrepreneurship), and they had to prepare a little oral presentation (in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">English!!) about how this project is helping ME to develop THIS concrete competence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After several minutes, each group chose a “speaker, who was presenting to the other s what </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they found. For some competences it was very easy (for example, expression in foreign </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">languages or intercultural competence), but for other competences it was not so obvious (for </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">example, for the mathematical competence). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, it was a good activity and we could appreciate the very good speaking skills of some </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the participants such as Edvards from Latvia, Lukass from Lithuania and Nicolas from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spain.</span><br />
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Latvia, on September 13</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, we
thought about what does the name of the Project „Think fast, Think slow, decide
well, be strong” really mean so everybody wrote down what first came up to
their mind when hearing a sentence as Think fast, think slow and so on. For our
surprise people had various thoughts about it and opinions differed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Speaking about ¨Think fast¨, participants
wrote that sometimes there is not enough time or some competitor may be faster
than you. You have not to think too long, you should decide in a given period
of time, and think fast as possible to reach the main goal. In life you should
be able to read quickly in situations where there is little time. In fact it is
about time. Time makes us free, the more time you have the more you can do. If
you don't decide fast you might lose a chance. Sometimes you need to react
quickly to changing situations because no everyone will wait for you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">The opinions about the part ¨think slow¨
were also quite rich: ¨To think slow is important because it's better to think
more than one time¨; ¨never hurry, good decision cannot be made in hurry, it's
best to think ahead ¨; ¨Not to precipitate, dedicate necessary time, take into
account all that you can. Not let to be guided by emotions.¨. Think slow was
also associated with ¨to be sure what you want and what you must to reach¨ and
¨Being able to weigh all the options and chose the right one¨. Other
participants stressed ¨Reflection, concentration skills, ask for advice, and
define your identity¨, ¨because you need to think correctly¨.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">The opinions of ¨decide well¨ were
connected with responsibility in choices:
¨Decide well because your future may depend on it¨, ¨you have to know
the importance of decision¨; ¨Decisions change your future, so what goes around
comes around¨; ¨decide well because you want to be correct, because wrong
choice is a wrong choice; take the right choice¨. And also with a good logic in
the decision making: ¨Make decisions on facts: decision should be well
founded¨; ¨to decide well is being able to decide based on legitimate criteria
rather than making impulse decisions¨.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Finally, the exchange about the part ¨be
strong was also very rich. Some respondents said that ¨ this one is most
important in my opinion, because you must acknowledge there will be no way back
anymore¨; ¨keep on putting into practice the decision that you have made.
Decision without action is vane¨; ¨Just do it. You thought of it. Forget your
feelings, your mood, do what you have decided¨; ¨It’s important because the
whole world has a lot of people who will try do disrespect your plans¨; ¨to be
strong in spirit is an advantage without flaws¨. Some respondents associated it
with the fact of taking what one think is the right decision without being
influenced: ¨Be strong in every
decision¨; ¨Being able to make your own, well-informed decisions thus not being
affected as much by others opinion¨; ¨you need to be convinced and to share¨.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First work meeting of Erasmus+ Project „Think fast, Think slow, decide well, be strong”</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On September 7<sup>th</sup> the first work meeting
of Erasmus+ Project „Think fast, Think slow, decide well, be strong” took place.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We watched a movie about Spain culture, and
we spoke about the ideas for the activities to do. We were going through the
application of the project to understand better what we are going to do before
and during the exchange. We had also an explanation about what is <i>Youth pass </i>and the different parts of
the certificate. After a while, Martins and Florian were given information
about the trip and about the insurances. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we started working by groups on the
preparation of the activities. For example, Toms and Ritvars were working on
the excursion to the mountains, looking for information in internet. Jānis and
Kristaps were thinking about the activity “getting to know each other”. And
Martins and Daniels were planning the meeting with relevant people who can say
interesting things about decision making. Edvards and Emnanuels were speaking
about the intercultural evening and what songs we could play there.</span><br />
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decide what pieces to choose, remembering where are the two that are identical.
We were reflecting about what strategy we used to make this choice … (see the
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the weather was nice and we needed to move… and to train to beat Spaniards and
Lithuanians in Madrid!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After sport we watched a DVD with an Erik
Clapton’s concert in big screen, VERY GOOD!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Some young people have witnessed bad examples of decision-making in society, at national or international level, in challenging historical or economical contexts, or even in their familiar or scholar environment. However, in formal education systems youngsters are rarely offered room for self-initiated decision making. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">The aim of this project is to provide young people with a ‘corrective experience’ in decision-making, a sense of hope and joyful responsibility as a part of decision-making, resulting in a new self-confidence and passionate involvement in decision-making processes in their personal and social life. More concretely, the main topic of the project “THINK FAST, THINK SLOW, DECIDE WELL, BE STRONG!” is to help youngsters to become good decision-makers in any fields of their life: carrier choice, life style, time management, work and leisure activities, family life, ethical issues, social involvement, participatory citizenship.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">30 youngsters, mostly from 16 to 22 y.o., from Lithuania, Latvia and Spain will meet during 5 days in Madrid at the end of September 2014 to face these challenges in the frame the Youth mobility action of Erasmus + program. The activity plan consists of a mix of workshops, exercises, debates, social games, outdoor activities and others, related with the theme chosen by the participants: Decision-making. The project uses and informal learning approach, learning practically decision-making competence in activities during the Exchange, with peers and facilitators. It is mainly learning by doing. In general the activities use participatory working methods that 1) offer space for interaction of participants, sharing of ideas, avoiding passive listening; 2) allow participants to contribute to the activities with their own knowledge and skills, and 3) allow participants to undertake their own analyses, including reflections on competences acquired during the activity (i.e. their own learning outcomes). Participants are involved progressively in the decision making process of the project as such, from the preparation of the application till the dissemination.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">The activities included “sharing decision-making experiences”, “decision-making theory in practice” (informal meeting with relevant adults), “decisions for healthy live”(sports, excursion), “social decision making” (role game), “responsible decision-making” (cineforum), “the reflective decision-maker” (Youthpass process), “Intercultural decision-making” (intercultural evening), etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">The results of the project (a blog with the tool-box of the good decision-maker, and a video explaining the problems, process and solutions found by participants), are made wide available on line (Youtube, websites, etc.)> presentations are also done by participants at local un national levels.</span><br />
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