UPCOMING TRAINING COURSES & Recent events

NOTE: Here we are posting upcoming training events and other important happenings in the VIPP world. If you are organising a training or event using VIPP, please send us a description or announcement, a link to a website, and we will post it on this page.

UPCOMING TRAINING EVENTS

For the rest of the year 2009 the VIPP Core Team is planning and preparing the following VIPP trainings. Please contact Timmi Tillmann (Tillmann2003@gmx.net) for detailed announcements of each training workshop.

2009

11. – 18. October 2009 – Experimental (experiential, innovative, practical and visionary) workshop: VIPP-Trainer-Training – Black Forest, Germany (8 days)
8 to 14 participants with VIPP-Facilitation experience will develop new learning tools and modules on issues like participant diversity, creativity, idea generation, intercultural understanding, interethnic conflicts, group dynamics and dialogue. We will learn and practice advanced VIPP-Trainer skills to generate a learning process based on the art of process design. We aim at developing a personal plan for improvements, as well as plans to develop complementary trainer teams for the Training of Facilitators worldwide. Together we develop quality standards for the design of facilitator training events and elaborate evaluation guidelines that will be employed and exchanged to maintain standards. One outcome is the design of the basic contents of VIPP-Facilitator Training courses to be organised with support of the VIPP-Community (some self-funded through registration fees, some institutionally funded). Size of trainer group: 8 – 14 participants
Registration deadline: August 25, 2009 Workshop Fee (all inclusive): 1200 Euro
Note: Special discount rate available for colleagues from NGOs, Grassroot Movements and Trainer Networks on request.

The Training Center of St. Ulrich Monastery – in the heart of the Black Forest.

Second international VIPP-Summit (postponed to 2011)
After 12 years the VIPP Core Trainer Team will organise the Second International VIPP Summit for all facilitators and trainers who want to share their experiences, learn from colleagues, plan jointly future events and get ideas for new tools and methods. We will look back to assess critically the achievements of the VIPP approach and discuss the future challenges for facilitators and trainers to cope with the technological and psychological changes of modern societies. The event will be accompanied by electronic discussions and conferences. We hope to hold it in Penang, Malaysia in coordination with the VIPP Community of Malaysia.

2010
We will organise in St. Ulrich a minimum of 2 training workshops in 2010 (between May and July) for Facilitators and Trainers in English language. Also one workshop in German language with regard to how to organise and manage participatory meetings with large groups of people.

In other continents – Africa, Latin America, Asia
We are planning to organise VIPP-Facilitator Training Events with a variety of specific topics (like intercultural facilitation, team work and management) in different regions of the world. We will announce the dates and concepts of each workshop once we have defined the teams, dates, basic announcement. In North America, Asia and in Africa it will be in English language, while in Latin America the teams will be offering courses in Castellano.

The next workshop in Latin America will be organised in Peru end of November 2009 – of course in Spanish language. Announcement will be posted soon.

Passed events
20. – 24. April 2009 – VIPP-Training of VIPP-Facilitators and Trainers – Black Forest, Germany (4.5 days):
A comprehensive training course for VIPP-Facilitators and Trainers (4.5 days), which provided the opportunity to learn and to practice how to organise, plan and prepare training sessions and events; how to improve creative visualisation and presentation skills to motivate participants; how to facilitate attarctive events that prioritise the learning process of participants. The participants practiced different tools to allow groups to use time efficiently and come up with shared, innovative results and ideas as a product of an intensive and harmonious process. 12 participants from 4 continents learned and practiced advanced VIPP-skills like intercultural dialogue in facilitation, the benefits of diversity of cultures and trainees.

As part of the small grant by Oxfam Novib we were able to organise Training Courses in 3 continents: in January 2009 in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, for 20 participants from 7 countries from Latin America, in March 2009 in Penang, Malaysia with 17 participants from 7 Asian countries, in April 2009 in St. Ulrich with 12 participants from 10 countries. We are planning to hold a Training of Trainers in South Africa this autumn. Wait for announcement.