Reflection on the workshops

The experience of simulating the real life workshop in the class rooms was a great challenge and at the same times an opportunity to master the basic essence of planning and executing a real life workshop in the future. The main challenge stems from the fact that the participators are not real beneficiaries who have economic, financial or political interest on the workshop and hope to gain something out of it. This makes it very difficult to attract the attention of the participants of a simulated class room workshop as most of them have little or no idea and interest on the subject matter of the workshop.

Another challenge that I witnessed of a class room workshop is the struggle to fit all the contents of the planned workshop in a really short period of time. Sometimes we even don't get the necessary time to collect our breath before we jump form one task to another in order to manage our meager time properly. I hope we would have a much longer time than this in when we plan a real life workshop.

But I think we managed to come out of both of the above challenges with victory as we tried to plan our workshop in a sense that it would attract any neutral participant and accommodate all its components in the given period of time.
Finally, I would like to say that I feel I am privileged to experience that moment, face the challenges and share the fun with my team mates and the whole class and I hope the whole session in the consecutive two weeks gave a big lesson on how we plan our future workshops in the real world.