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Pooja Patki

About Gymnastics

Introduction

  • Gymnastics knowns as "Mother of all Sports"
  • Gymnastics provide guidance to choose right sports for your own child
  • Sports of:  Men and Women 
  • Gymnastics helps to build: balance, strength, flexibility, agility, endurance & control
  • Gymnastics contribute in development of arm, legs, shoulder, chest and abdominal muscles group
  • Even more, Gymnastics develops mental traits (e.g. alertness, precision, daring, self-confidence and self-discipline ) 

Types

  • Women Artistic Gymnastics
  • Men Artistic Gymnastics
  • Rhythmic Gymnastics
  • Acrobatic Gymnastics
  • Trampoline Gymnastics
  • Aerobics Gymnastics


Age Criteria to Enter into field

  • 2 Years and above

Uniforms/ Leotards

  • Long T-shirt (Provided by Tiny Cubs)
  • Short (Knee Length)
Thea Renate Berg

Stabspåkobling

Ta en kopp kaffe sammen. Snakke om hvor vi er, og hva vi kjenner på før oppstart.


Gå gjennom deltakerlister og godtatte invitasjoner. Status.


Gå gjennom dagens plan og samle forventninger, hoder og hjerter. :)

Veronica Spagna

CreAction for Hopeland

Participants will collaborate in small groups to the realizations of artistic painted products for giving their contribution to the Hopeland venue and leave their mark on the place (e.g painitng signals for the trees, tents’ names, venue areas’ names etc.)

Magnus Nord

Connect the Dots

A timed estimation game that reveals why accurate estimation is so hard, and why asking the right questions matters.

Players are asked to estimate how many iterations they need to connect a given number of dots.

The task looks trivially simple, but there is hidden complexity: Time pressure, total number of dots, lines obscuring numbers. This makes it harder than anyone expects. The gap between "this is ieasy" and "it was actually hard" is the lesson.

Use it when stakeholders wonder why forecasts keep missing, or when you want to shift the conversation from "why can't you estimate better?" to "how can we change the way we work to make more accurate forecasts?"

🌐 Online A ready-to-run digital version of this game is available at https://facilitatorkit.co/connect-the-dots-online. The facilitator creates a session and shares a link — participants join in their browser and play on their own device. The game generates burndown charts automatically after each round.

Liberating Structures

Caravan

You can quickly and effectively get and give help in a diverse group, organization, or community. Caravan gets rid of long large-group presentations and replaces them with several concise consultations made simultaneously to group members that have asked for help with a challenge.


A few individuals set up stations where they share a challenge and a consultation question. Often the challenge is directly or obliquely shared by others in the group. As small groups of consultants move from one station to another, their size makes it easy for people to connect with the client and visa versa. Clients learn how to ask productive questions and consultants learn how to be more effective coaches.

With Caravan everyone can quickly learn how challenges are being addressed and how new approaches might be adapted to their own situations.

Liberating Structures

Positive Gossip

Creating a climate of appreciative personal feedback can dramatically boost performance for individuals and groups. It is possible to begin turning a vicious self-reinforcing cycle of negative gossip—that stifles risk-taking and innovation—into a virtuous self-reinforcing cycle of positive feedback. Positive Gossip is an antidote to a strongly felt discontent and indifference that spreads informally from person to person (a form of acute proliferative dysphoria). A generalized malaise in which “things will not get better, only worse.” A robust pattern of positive feedback can eliminate the need for extrinsic rewards and incentive programs (e.g. free coffee coupons, stickers, awards ceremonies).
Liberating Structures

Future-Present

Notice threads in the present that if tugged on might unravel a more attractive future. Identify how the hints of a more ideal future are present, just not widely distributed yet. Participants can notice small changes, support structures, and local success patterns that have the potential to be scaled up to a global transformation. This includes surfacing strategies to overcome resistance and methods to spread early successes. Future~Present does not produce a plan to be implemented but rather builds momentum, imagination, social proof, and confidence in subtle or incremental signals. This builds capacity to actively shape next steps and pounce on opportunities.

Erica Marx

Truth holding

A collective witnessing practice where participants anonymously name truths they are carrying and then the group then takes turns physically and verbally “holding” one another’s truths, building shared understanding, acceptance, empathy, and surfacing patterns in the group.