Our second day begun with a nice breakfast and a cup of coffee. The hungarian team welcomed us with a simple and creative name game.
In this game each one had to introduce himself with a special movement. We have to admit that after that we begun to remember all participants names... ok perhaps not all of them.
After our first contact, bonding naturally took place. Following this, the polish team introduced us an activity where we were split in pairs. We were put to answer different questions related to our local festivities, norms, dress code and there was a discussion. This gave us a great opportunity to get to know each other. After a lot of work, we were exhausted and we needed food... and yes lunch was ready. After finishing our lunch, the Cypriot group organised an intercultural communication workshop. Main aim of the workshop was to explore why culture is important and to form a more comprehensive understanding of culture as a framework of values, attitudes and behaviors. We had various activities such as greetings in different languages, discussed various subjects about our culture and values. We had a chance to express ourselves through interactive conversations.
Key objectives were to enable participants to reflect on their own understanding of culture, and its influences. This also contributed in raising awareness for both visible and non-visible
components of culture.
Later on an amazing activity took place that had as a goal to increase our self-awareness through self-reflection. There were four different posters with definitions for personality traits. We
got to decide on how much we were most related to. This process gave us the opportunity to have a self evaluation without us realising this was what we were doing.
Continuing our evening we had dinner, after it we created our group contract. Divided in four teams we exchanged opinions, came up with what's important and what should be set as ground rules.
As a whole we concluded to the final contract rules, something that each individual put his/hers signature on.
Overall the day was about the team-building and bonding for our future co-operation.
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