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Employees of the NGO “Center for Humanitarian Aid ‘Volunteer-68’ constantly face unexpected psychological circumstances, logistical crises, emotional problems, and sometimes situations that pose a threat to their lives and the lives of their wards.
That is why our organization periodically conducts trainings that are close to our activities and are designed to expand experience or introduce new ones.
Trainings aimed at personal growth and psychological relief stand out in this line.
For example, in order to optimize interaction between all colleagues and various departments of the NGO “Volunteer-68”, a training was held to stimulate intuitive approaches to creative solutions, teamwork and pairwise dialogic cooperation in a playful way.
The event was focused on the problem of harmonizing individual actions with a collective goal and mutual trust between the players. In the format of mime theater, the participants tried to convey the mimic message set by the coach as accurately as possible through the chain of players. The result was very pleasing to everyone present and at the same time clearly demonstrated that improper perception of information leads to critical
distortion.
The mise en scène, which reproduced the interaction between the manager and the managed, showed that it can be considered adequate only when the “manager” has a strategy and his instructions are clear, and the “executor” perceives them carefully.
The scenarios involving collective efforts to achieve a result illustrated the need to invent and test appropriate technology, and the team competitions revealed the need for individual initiative and sometimes playing on the verge of a foul to achieve victory.
Improving understanding and empathy among colleagues is key for humanitarian organizations, as understanding and empathy are key tools in their interactions with those they are trying to help.