Category Archives: Team Building
Team Building
Show me your Values!
November 16, 2012, by Carlos
New term… New civic challenge:
— Take one core-value of Global Citizenship and turn it into an educational Comic Skit…
…as a warm-up for creating mini-documentaries (“micro-mentaries”) for our civic community.
Click below to open the storyboards & watch the skits created & performed by GCE Chicago students.
Purpose
Autonomy
Accountability
Gratitude
Special thanks to Mark Piebenga for guiding us in the process of creating the comic skits!
“No man is an island”
August 15, 2010, by Carlos
Working on defining terms,
I feel that words carry both potentials & limitations:
I feel in a game of expanding and blocking:
– Why to expand?
– To provide an improvisation space.
– Why to block?
– To guide the jamming.
Music might be indeed a fit metaphor:
we need both
scales & intuition
to create good Chicago blues;
there’s interdependence,
there’s a peninsula:
one side is the land
where we feel grounded to where we belong;
the other side is the sea
immense
potential
endless…
Carving English for the right terms,
a fit sculpture may be “balance”:
it keeps in mind to pursue a common vocabulary
but still lets poetry breath
and sing the Blues.
* CREDITS: Photo by Guillermo Flores (2005) Puerto Penasco, Sonora.