CONFERENCE

NLP(Neuro Linguistic Programming) specialist Ayşen Turna gave a conference about "psychological reflections of verbal communication with foreigners" on May,21st. Summary of her speech is above.

COMMUNICATION RULES FOR FOREIGNERS
Our world is the world of communication now. Dialogue is two kinds. The first one is being reconciled with ones inner world and knowing what you expect from life. The second one is having a good dialogue with the society in order to realize his/her expectations.

Dialogue is possible with effective and positive communication. Not ideas but emotions are important in the sense of communication. If you take into account the feelings of other people, if you can impress them, the communication will be more positive. To be able to communicate positively, we must take into consideration the following issues:

Do not criticize.
Accept your mistake.
Do not argue.
Do not say “No”.
Do not overestimate yourself and do not despise others.
Make sure your appearance.
Be energetic.
Your gestures and mimics mustn’t be artificial.
Make compliment.
Give them the advantage.
Be optimistic.
Distribute love and respect.
Make sure.
Set your tone.
Listening them is important.

We provide 15 keywords for effective and positive dialogue. If you use these keys, you'll see how your communication differences will be eliminated. You will understand not limits but smiling and making them smiling is important.

ACTIVITIES

TURKISH COURSE

Most of the Roman people who live in Yalova do not continue with their primary education. As they don’t know reading-writing they have difficulties in their daily life. For this reason, they need a Turkish course in order to get over their communication problems and successfully adapt themselvels to the society.

A 120-hour Turkish course was started on November,11 and finished on April,15. During the course, some lessons such as Reading and Writing, Basic Mathemetics and Living Skills are taught.

Certificates were given to the five attenders who finished the course successfully.

ENGLISH COURSE

There is a large number of foreign people who live in our district, Termal. Also, there are a lot of people who are just visitors. We want our people communicate with them easily, a Basic English course has been started by our centre. The course aims for our inhabitants to oevrcome the problems they may face and communicate with foreigners easily.

The course was planned to be last between the dates 16/02/2009 and 09/06/2009 as 132 hours.

ARABIAN COURSE

Most of the visitiors of Termal are Arabian people and all of them cannot speak English. For this reason, Arabian language gets more important for our people. Similar to English course, our centre opened a Basic Arabian course.

124-hour Arabian course started on May,6 2009 and will last until August,20 2009.

General Information About YALOVA

The first settlement in the region dates back to the Prehistoric Period, in around 3000 BC.

The Hittites
The Hittites were an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC.... ruled the region in the 2000s BC, followed by the Phrygians in the 1200s BC. The region was conquered by the Romans
Ancient RomeAncient Rome was a civilization that grew out of the city-state of Rome, founded in the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BCE.... in 74 BC.

Following the division of the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was a phase of the ancient Rome civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government.... in 395, the region of Yalova remained under the sovereignty of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople..... In 1302, Yalova was incorporated into the territory of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire , is also sometimes known in the Western world as the Turkish Empire.....Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, and Father of the Nation Turkey as well as its first President.... occasionally lived in Yalova in his final years. In one of his speeches he famously said "Yalova is my city."Yalova is a city located in northwestern Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Southwest Asia Asia and the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe Europe...., on the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara , also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is an inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating the Asian part of Turkey from its European part...., and is the capital of the Yalova Province

Yalova Province
Yalova is a Provinces of Turkey in northwestern Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Bursa Province to the south, and Kocaeli Province to the west..... Yalova has a city population of 90.000, while the population of the Yalova Province is 188,440.

Yalova has a number of tourist attractions, such as the kösk (Ottoman-Turkish style mansion) used by Atatürk during his visits to the city, and of course, its famous hot springs in Termal

Termal
Termal is a district of Yalova Province, Turkey...., which gets its name from the Latin word thermae

Thermae
The term thermae was the word the Ancient Rome used for the buildings housing their public baths.....

Resume of the accords established in the last meeting in France

As we agreed, we include in the blog this summary in order to remember the resolutions of the meeting in Chalon-Sur-Saone about our Grundtvig Project "without barriers"

- Next meeting in Germany. The dates choosen for the next meeting will be on October 21th and 22th.

- Communication between partenrs: Remember that it's necesary to answer all the e-mails sent for every partner and specially for the coordinator, and dont delate the answers.

- All the institutions who didn't do it yet, must create a work group in their institutions in order to develop the project without barriers. In the same way, they must explain their ideas about how they will develop the project with their
respective groups. Remember that we fixed the date of June 15th in order to publish in the blog about the groups choosen and the way of work for every institution.
As I promised in the meeting, we include the page of the blog of our other project in order you can obtain some ideas about how to develop your project in your institutions:

http://theheartfaraway.blogspot.com/

- Blog. The blog is the window of our project. So, every institution must publish in the blog explaining to the other partners every activity they do in our project. For the partners who didnt do it yet, they must publish an article explaining the characteristics of their institution.

- Media. The grundtvig's project are not only the activities realized in every Centre. We must share these activities. So, its necesary that we use the media for sharing our experiences. Every institution must try to use the local media. Im sure many of them will be interested in knowing how we are working in the european projects. Only you need the first effort for explaining it to the local newspapers, local radios, tvs, etc. Remember that all articles published or recordings of every institution must be published in the blog and sent to the coordinator for the final report of the project.

Finally, only to congratulate again to the french partners for their perfect organization of the meeting and to all the participants for their interest. Im sure we will get a great group with all this kindly people who is in the photo.



Thanks for your effort
Pedro Cantero
Coordinator of the project "Without barriers"

Presentación de Monterroso - Presentation from Monterroso

Incluimos estos enlaces para dar a conocer con más profundidad las diferentes actividades realizadas en el Centro Penitenciario de Monterroso, expuestas en la Comisión Interamericana para el control del abuso de drogas, para aquellos interesados en conocer un poco más el método de trabajo en nuestro Centro.

We include these links in order to know the different activities into the prison of Monterroso, exposed in the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control, for those people interested in knowing a little more about the work method in our centre.

http://www.eulacdrugs.org/fs/view/chile/presentations/Victor_Fraga.pdf

http://www.eulacdrugs.org/eulac/Speakers-ponentes-chile

Team Norway ready for meeting in France

The “delegation” from Norway is an exiting “mix” of people, but we regard ourselves as colleagues since we all work with foreign people settling in our town of Kongsberg. We follow these people from asylum seekers to refugees up to self sufficient individuals in our society. This presentation starts from the left with Henri, and ends to the right with Cherif.

I'm Henri Filmand and I come from Cameroun, West-Africa. My mother tounge is French, but I also speak English and Norwegian. In Kongsberg I run a Taekwondo-club, which takes most of my spare time. I work for a private firm as a consultant for people seeking asylum in Norway. My main task is to keep people active whilst they are waiting for a reply from the Government. This include teaching them about shops and the town in general so that they can run their household, training/different social activities etc.

I am Ingrid Berge and I work as a refugee counsellor in Kongsberg. Every year we resettle approximately 30 refugees. Every person over 18 years are offered an introductory- program that gives them two year to prepare for and qualify themselves towards ordinary work or education. The refugee office work very closely with Fredheim in offering the participants different types of classes that help find employment more quickly or to get the education they need so that they become financially self- reliant.

Je suis Ingrid et je travaille au bureau des refugiers a Kongsberg en tant que conseillere. Chaque annee nous acceuillons environ 30 refugiers. Chaque personne ayant ayant au moins 18 ans participe a un programme d'introduction sur 2 ans qui lui permet de se preparer et se qualifier au marche de l'emploi ou aux etudes. La bureau des refugiers travaille en collaboration avec Fredheim qui offre aux participants des cours pour les aider a trouver rapidement un emploi ou une formation professesionelle afin de devenir financierement independant.

Bente Grosvold is my name, and I come from the Olympic town of Lillehammer. I speak English, Italian and some Spanish, and I might surprise you with some French and German words and phrases too. My work is at Fredheim school for adults. We have people from all over the world here, and they all need to learn my language; Norwegian. The language is important – the key itself – to get a job and an easier life socially. I teach and I also try to give our participants a possibility of getting to know the labor market at the same time. This way they must use Norwegian actively, and they also get a chance to show their employer how good they work.

My name is Knut Aarvig. I have my daily work together with Bente at Fredheim. I function as a counselor for all our participants when it comes to education. Especially those at our primary school (junior high). Besides I also help those who want to verify their education, attend high school or university or authorization of their profession. Our school uses computers and computer related technology on a wide scale. It is therefore highly important that our computers and programs are functioning at all time. For me it is a challenge to maintain all the computers, their programs and to assist students and teachers if they are facing any problems. But it is rewarding each time I mange to solve a problem. Finally I also teach mathematics and science. This year I have the final class, and they are taking their degree in May and June.

My name is Cherif Ousman, I´m from Togo (west- Africa), but I have been living in Norway in 10 years. I speak French, Norwegian and English and I like music and dance. I work as adviser in free time and cultural activities for refugees and foreigners in Kongsberg. Our objective is to promote integration of refugees and foreigners in the Norwegian society trough their participation in cultural and free time activities. We cooperate a lot with sport and cultural clubs and associations of Kongsberg

Je m'appelle Cherif Ousman, je suis originaire du Togo (Afrique de l'ouest) et je vis en Norverge depuis 10 ans. Je parle francais, anglais et norvegien et j'aime la musique et la danse folklorique. Je travaille dans la commune de Kongsberg comme conseiller en activities culturelles et de loisir. Notre objectif est de promouvoir l'integration des etrangers dans la societe norvegienne a travers leur participation aux activities culturelles et de loisir. Nous travaillons en close collaboration avec les clubs et associations sportifs et culturels de Kongsberg.

Meeting program of May 28th and 29th

Thursday 28 th

- 9.00 - 10.00 am : Welcom in Niepce College

- 10.00 am : Presentation by Mr Collin, director of " La régie des Quartiers des Prés Saint Jean", of the actions being jointly with GRETA:

Electrical clearance

Buildings sanitation and maintenance

Action group : recover self-confident though composition and interviews

Flats renewal

- Around 12.00 : Lunch (Niepce College)

- 2.00 pm : Visit to "Prés saint Jean" neighborhood and to the " United Garden"

- End of the day: Visit to Chalon sur Saône, and, lately, Burgundy wine degustation

- Dinner

Friday 29 th

- 8.30 am: Meeting to Niepce College

- 9.00 am: Visite of penitentiary center of Varennes Le Grand

-12.00 : Lunch

-2.00 pm : Final meeting