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Women's Trust-Building Workshop |
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Written by Ester Golan and Elana Rozenman
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
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Ester quoted from a book about Encountering Other Faiths which states "Dilaogue can take place only on the basis of mutual trust. We opened with an exercise of everyone saying one word that Trust means to them; we developed the following list: Comfort, truth, revelation, construction, respect, faith connection, honest, helping, personal, affirmation, love, openness, no fear, building, compassion, bravery, integrity, return, forgiveness, life, acceptance, sympathy, consistency, diversity, science, war, price, compromise, risk, how?
We had a paired exercise with two people who did not know each other, using appreciative inquiry for everyone to share about "one person that I trust". Small group discussions focused on the topic of "sharing an experience of trust in your own life". This led to the following reflections: to limit expectations, to have patience, put things in a positive way, work against prejudice, protection, finding the balance between tensions, somebody who is close to you, to trust yourself, to be a trustworthy person, self confidence, trust starts from birth, can you trust the other?, to be courageous to take risk, we cannot change the world. One group ended with a Trust Exercise led by a Beduin man--one member standing on a chair and falling backwards while the other members of the group caught her--to everyone's delight.
Everyone did an Action Plan--writing one concrete thing that they can do to build trust in their own life and how can they start to do it tomorrow. When these commitments were shared, they included: meditating daily, contacting someone who they're in conflict with, expressing more gratitude to others, creating more meetings like this, reading about the subject of trust, consciously suspending judgment of others,
Ibtisam closed with a group exercise of guided imagery to capture the energy of trust and hope we had created among ourselves, and instructing everyone to smile at everyone and hug anyone they chose. People were reluctant to leave and walked out with different people than they came in with. We felt blessed that we had been able to facilitate a small beginning in forming relationships of trust between everyone.
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