I went to Helena Komasova’s series of lectures on communication that she was giving in a small South Bohemian village where the modern school building dominates. It is a place where Helena is a regular and welcome guest. The topic of communication caters for 8th grade pupils and is part of a broader program of ethical topics that Helena deals…
How to understand yourself and how to manage conflicts with your parents and other people when you are in your teens? That is the topic of the session that caters for 8th and 9th grade pupils. I took the opportunity to participate in such sessions provided by three lectors within the project called Healthy Youth: Pavel Slepicka, Petra Stranska…
The Internet is a place where many children spend most of their free time nowadays. Therefore, the sessions on potential Internet danger are one of the most demanded ones. Radek Pospisil confirms that – this is the topic that the schools in Kolin and its surrounding villages want to speak on the most often. In November I went…
Ida Pencova visits schools in Varnsdorf and its surroundings with gabfests from workshop series on Ethics. In the middle of October I visited with her two forth and one fifth class in Elementary School in Rumburk. Ida has been in all these classes at least for the third time and children have remembered her very well.…
Petra Stranska started lecturing last year in the Hradec Kralove Region. Her work picks up on the leisure time activities clubs for children between 10 and 15 years that Petra founded in Vsestary and Nechanice. This year, these activities mounted into a children´s summer camp with eighty participants. Petra told me that there had already been…
The lecture by Monika Sluneckova at the Secondary School for Agriculture in Ceske Budejovice has proven that a class of last-year students is able to listen to a two-hour lecture on history given by a lecturer who is one generation older than them. Monika focused on the modern history of the state of Israel, which is undoubtedly an exciting…
The city of Trutnov, which is the metropolis of the Giant Mountains, was short of the lectors for a long time. Since last year Karla Mihatschova has been the first lector. She offers the schools ethics programs on the basis of ethics workshops. As sometimes happens, the work was difficult first for various reasons, however, the…
Petr Kadlec has been working in program Healthy Youth in Ceska Trebova area since August 2012. His work in elementary and grammar schools has been continually getting more and more accepted. I visited his two lectures for the 7 th grade of an elementary school near Lanskroun, where Petr sometimes comes. It was obvious that…
The secondary school of Plzen at which I visited Radek’s lecture has extraordinarily excellent approach to shaping of the ethical aspect of the students’ life. It could be seen absolutely everywhere in the teachers’ behaviour and in the extraordinarily helpful approach to the lecturer and to me; we felt as very important persons. Radek is…
Additionally to her lecturer work, Petra Stranska also leads four children clubs. I visited two clubs (one for younger category, another for older category) in a village at about 10 km from Hradec Kralove. The children feel well in the club; they experience interest and acceptance of Petra. There are moments of chatting in a circle…