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World’s Greatest Smile

Workshop

Here we created a workshop for you about communication, differences and similarities, and how to live together in a friendly and peaceful world.

We provided some suggestions for considerations and conversations which you can use to find solutions for interpersonal challenges and for improving your team work. And beside that you could find answers to international issues.

You can use this workshop for yourself. And it will be even much more effective when you discuss the questions with a group of people, your family, colleagues, and politicians!
If you want us to come around and help you doing it or do it for you, please
contact us! (Yes, we can do that in German as well.)
 

Workshop:
Create the world you would like to live in
 

Topics:

The audience:
This program is useful for schools, businesses, families, politicians, and other groups as well.
(We discussed these questions with children from age 6 to 94 years old. Even the youngest understood the advantages and methods of friendly behavior, sometimes is an adjustment in verbalization and timing helpful.)
 

The time you need
The time you need depends on the intensity and quality of the results you would like to get. You could choose an abstract of the questions and start with 15 minutes.
And you can decide to expand it for a program of a week or longer. Then you have time to include games, more knowledge, artwork and much more fun at this topic and your long running results will be even much better.
At the end you will find out that you save a lot of time through a more friendly, peaceful and effective cooperation!
Above all, most valuable the questions and answers will be if you keep them in mind and adjust them from time to time!
 

To set the stage for a discussion like this:

  • Provide a friendly surrounding.
  • Everybody of the group is welcome to speak his/her mind.
  • Listen to each other.
  • New ideas are great! Ideas don’t have to be good at the first moment. Sometimes the combination of two bad ideas makes a great one. So every idea should listen respectfully.
  • One of the group should take care of the correct order of the request of speak.
  • It’s helpful to note catchwords. Some volunteers could do that.

Topics of the Workshop:

Friendliness and Communication:

  • What is friendliness?
  • Which advantages does gentleness bring?
  • How can you be friendly to others?
  • How can you be gracious to yourself?
  • What is unfriendliness?
  • Can you be ‘unfriendly’ to others? (Sometimes that can important if someone asks you to get in his car or something like that.)
  • If you have been unfriendly to a person or yourself by mistake, how do you enhance your mood again?
  • And what do you do to settle a difference?

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Smile:

  • What is a friendly smile?
  • Which influence does a true smile have on yourself?
  • Which influence does a true smile have on an observer?
  • Why is smiling international?
  • Why is smiling healthy?

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Freedom of opinion:

  • Does everybody have to be the same opinion?
  • What can you do if you have another opinion than someone else?
  • What are compromises?
  • How can you find compromises?
  • What is a good argument / reason and what is an unproductive one?
  • How do you express a good argument?

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Your Rules:

  • Which rules do you like to have for yourself and other people?
  • How can you agree on some rules with others?
  • How could you make people observe these rules?
  • What do you do if someone does not observe these rules?
  • Which advantages do your rules bring for yourself and the others?

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Peace:

  • What is peace?
  • Which advantages does peace bring?
  • What is war?
  • Where is peace?
  • Where is war?
  • Which are the steps between peace and war?
  • How could you get from war to peace?

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People around the world:

  • What do all people have in common?
  • Which differences do people have?
  • Why are people different?
  • Why do people look different?
  • Why do people speak different languages?
  • Why can you find much more friends if you speak more languages?
  • Which are the basic needs and wishes of people around the world?
  • Why are friendly people in each state?
  • Which cultures and religions do you know?
  • Which similarities do different cultures and religions have?
  • Which countries do you know?
  • Which similarities do different countries have?
  • Which political systems do you know?
  • Which similarities do different political systems have?

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