Only about a month after getting back into Canada (and it shocks me – by the way – that it took this long) I am finally making some serious headway with uploading the videos from our participants. We couldn’t get all of them on camera, but out of the 30 we got about thirteen, some of which are now up on the blog. Hopefully in a few days, they’ll all be up (vimeo willing).
A few things struck me about the feedback. Firstly, many participants, when asked if they wanted to say anything to those that funded us (thanks again, by the way!), responded that they wanted funding to continue. Sure, fair enough – workshops are good, but one thing that we really tried to bring home was that they were doing this workshop so that they could go back to their communities and be facilitators of similar workshops. Essentially, that would make more funding irrelevant. Although not all of them got that, some did, and after all the videos were taken, during our final session, we really tried to drive that point home.
Secondly, I was impressed that so many of our participants chose to highlight so many different parts of the workshop in their videos. JGI did a great job in putting together an excellent workshop schedule!
It was a real pleasure to do this project. More updates and videos to come!
