3rd Meeting

CIAK TURKEY 3RD MEETING

On the 29th of November 2012, the Turkish participants of CIAK met at the National Education Directorate to hold the activities of the 3rd CIAK meeting.

The meeting began with the share and discussions of questionnaire results. The questionnaire was conducted on 200 young people in Muratpasa district. Its results are decided to be used for the big CIAK meetings held in Turkey.

The activities began with and Ice Breaking game, called 3 truth does not kill one lie. Each participant tells three facts and a lie, the others try to guess the lie.

The power point presentation of Effective Communication was followed with Interactive Tasks.

After the discussion of the elements of communication, the importance of nonverbal communication came forward.

However, the fact that nonverbal communication is culture bound!!! Said by one of the participants so we watched a video on cross cultural gestures, that it really differs what you are actually saying in different cultures with your gestures.

watch cross cultural gestures video

The use of me and you languages trying to send more empathetic messages, and being an active listener were the other topics that were handled.

The activities on eye contact, proxemity, nonverbal communication and language uses were used at the meeting.

Meanwhile, contacts with the City Youth Council of Antalya and the Antalya Youth and Sports Ministry were set and initiations to hold visits and meetings with reps of these authorities were started.

The tasks of preparing an introduction video of the Turkish group and outlining the big meeting with other youth groups are given to the participants.