Apologies for the lack of blog over the past few days! The Academy has been jam packed and we haven’t found a moment to sit down!
So far we have done a huge variety of sessions: Leadership is Practice not Skills, Gender & Diversity, Leading Change, Risk Management, Volunteer Management, Building Capacity.
A firm favourite so far has been “Monitoring & Evaluation” as it was eye opening into ways in which we can improve our evaluation methods to evidence our impact.
Alison’s favourite was Strategic Planning for Success! She feels it was good to develop an understanding of the theory behind strategic planning and know how to use the tools to support others.
In addition to the twice daily, three hour sessions there is an opportunity to go to short sessions of around half hour. Jo went to a session on icebreakers based around Gender and Diversity and Alison went to one on the Learning Journey
Aside from our sessions, we’ve had plenty of time to network and make friends with Scouts and Guides from across Europe. We’ve been working on our challenges and building up a list of international opportunities for girls in our regions. Becky has been talking to Giulia from WAGGGS Europe about the development of GOLD and has been promoting GOLD to MOs who may be interested in building a partnership.
We had an amazing time at the International evening. We had our own “stand” decorated with British delicacies to share with our international friends. Shortbread, marmite, welsh cakes and Everton mints featured heavily along with lots of little glasses of Pimm’s!! We also had opportunity to “visit” other countries. We tried moose from Norway, fruit from Azerbaijan and stroopwaffel from the Netherlands.
We’re having an amazing time here in Slovenia and learning so much.
