Training Course - Italian First Meeting

On Friday, 4^th February 2011, the 20 Italian “Green Ambassadors” met to attend the First Meeting of the Training Course.

We began the meeting with a Name Game: everyone had to introduce himself to the rest of the group with his name, preceded by an adjective related to the person. It was a funny way to know each others.

After that, we played with the “Flower Garden for Expectations”, an non-formal way to evaluate the local training course. To have an idea of the activity, look at the picture: on flowers  we wrote our expectations and on stones our fears about the training course!

 (The Flower Garden for Expectations)

After playing, the “serious” part of the meeting started: the environmental education.

We watched the BBC Documentary “Planet Earth”, about climate changes, to introduce the first meeting issue, climate changes definition and causes.

After that, we analyzed some slides about climate changes to better understand how does it work and we discussed about the way we came in contact with this issue: the most of us faced the subject at school or University, someone was sensitized directly by his parents.

Finally, after a short brake, we divided ourselves into three working groups, based on the thematic we choose amongst all during the First International Meeting in September:  MOBILITY, ENERGY and WASTE. The groups will work at home to find out the connections between climate changes and the three thematic: every group will produce a little report in English and these three documents collected will constitute the first step for the creation of our Local State of Environment.

For the next time, a representative person for every group will introduce the subject to the rest of the participants. Then, we will face climate changes consequences and we will discuss about how to develop our Local State of Environment.