GET INVOLVED THROUGH PEER MENTORING
Interviews and Narratives
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
INVOLVE project
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Proposal text p.23:
‘…. will be a dialogue between active and
noninvolved possible learners coming from
the close environment of the active ones .
What is the reason some people don’t feel
that are able to contribute in common aims
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Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
Characteristics of involved and noninvolved
According to a research made by the University
of Peloponnese with the topic “Research
about Volunteering in Greece”, there are
some personality characteristics that people
that are involved in such activities have and
some that non-involved have.
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
Characteristics of the involved
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They believe in the purposes of volunteering
The action of the organization affects them
The want to be useful to the society
They want to feel useful and important
They want to take advantage of their knowledge and capabilities
They want to improve their social and professional abilities
They want to be with people and share the same social values
Because someone from their environment is a volunteer
They don’t want to stay at home
They have fun doing it
They want to fulfill some religious obligation or conviction
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
Characteristics of the non-involved
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They don’t have enough free time
They can’t be committed to something for a specific period of time
They prefer to give money than time
They have already contributed in something
They have not been asked to do something like it
They voluntary participation has an economical cost
They don’t know how to get involved in such activities
They face some health issues themselves or someone from their
family
They have family obligations
They don’t trust themselves
Are being negatively pressed from their environment
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
In order to satisfy the question above
mentioned
Partners will try
 to motivate people in the circles of reference
(local , regional , etc) ,
 by finding the reasons of inactivation so far ,
 to reflect on their role as citizens , as parents
,as learners , as human beings .
We are not defining the vision or not being stacked to a
specified mission - but only contribute in raising awareness of
being active , support in becoming member of an active
community , gaining self esteem by taking the decision to ask
for being volunteer in a way .
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
Approach
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Trying to organize local group meetings by inviting
people and sharing experiences, knowledge and
needs
Asking ‘volunteers’ to be respondents by sharing
with the rest, important information about ‘ non –
involve’
Trying to provide opportunities between local or
video viewing , activities – f.e EVS films – on or
about volunteers sharing their positive experience
from their activation so far as volunteers
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
CYCLISIS work activities , on project mentioned aims so far
and in accordance to the above reference
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Searching for good practices in local level –
interview of a Leader from ASTO – Youth NGO
Organizing a core group of 5 fresh members in the
approach of non directed discussions on
volunteering and active citizenship
Virtual attendance of European Conference on
Social Economy as practice for creative and social
oriented way of working today
Framing the meetings of the ‘core group’ under the
title ‘ Apo Koinou’ meaning :Together With In.
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
Apo Koinou
‘ Together With In’
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Who : Non directed , independent and positive thinking people
as group of persons in searching meaningful ways to express
them selves locally and further [European ] for common aims
targeting peers – f.e students in schools as peers , neighbors
as peers , coworkers as peers, etc
Why : to be motivated in order to become active as human
beings, as citizens , to understand reasons for being inactive ,
to share negative experience respecting to , to learn from peers
. To be connected , to share , to enrich the sense of belonging
How : coming in contact with other organizations , reflecting on
experience as observers , self digging to find reasons to
become more open . Mutual cooperation wit other initiatives together – with – in
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
Approach : Narratives [ life stories]
Main concepts behind ‘words’ of ‘informants’
lifewords
Motivation [ need , mistrust , visions,values sharing , ideologies
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Commitment [ tasks sharing, common aim, understanding ,
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participation and equality , leadership and hierarchy , democracy
and social values ]
Physical attainment [ presence , activation ]
Concentration [ Deeping into the aim ,focus , common
understanding , critical thinking , independence / dependence ,
etc]
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
Narratives
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Life stories : personal writing
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Visual narrative tecqniques : Listening to individuals
tell their stories visually mean to attend closely to the ambiguities,
complexities, difficulties, and uncertainties embedded in visual images
– imagery and visual expressions that reflect the uniqueness of an
individual’s life (John-Steiner 1985); ambiguities is no means by which
we can standardize or classify images or visual thought
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
Personal stories [ autobiography] 1
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The autobiography has always been in the humanity’s history: since
the ancient times humans have needed to fix their own experience, not
only to try to overcome the impermanence of their existences, but also
to think about theirs own lives, to understand the sense of their lives
and to gain new vital impulse.
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Not only the people who have given to the autobiography an artistic
form, but everyone who has tried to write a diary, maybe during a
particular period of own life, has experienced a feeling of quiet and
of an inner order and he has convinced himself, if not of the
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Narrative practices produce self-esteem: the writer is helped to discover his subjectivity
through the discover of own life. They feel themselves authorized to discover the dignity of
the use of the first person and it is a pleasure for them.
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The autobiographic method has a positive effect on the esteem of the other people
when the writer and protagonist of the story meet people interested to listen to the story
who, maybe, will tell it again adding own story and own experience.
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In addition, autobiographic method allows to discover that thoughts, desires and
values often are common to the human condition in spite of culture and of different
countries of origin1
1 [community “L’Ancora” “Raccontiamoci” project
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
CYCLISIS
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1st Narrative (20 year-old student)
2nd Narrative (middle aged woman)
Narratives will be organized in an action research approach ,
meaning that through the whole process ,
we will try to reflect and see the ‘change’ in persons attitude
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
Good Practices
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ASTO
Ark of the World (Kivotos tou Kosmou)
Scale (KLIMAKA)
Sunday School for Immigrants (Kyriakatiko
Sxoleio Metanaston )
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012
As conclusion
Circles of sharing for
Social and personal
Quality of life !
Thank you
CYCLISIS
ANKARA 2012
Anastasia Giannakopoulou &
Angeliki Giannakopoulou Ankara
2012