rick filosofeert

elitair, elegant, arrogant, sinds 14 mei 1977

Facilitation

The suitcase

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In the end the suitcase was the most important.
Not out of a materialistic view.
Although it’s a nice thing to have.

But as a symbol.
As it enables you to go out to the world.
Like an Ikea kitchen starter set.
Or your first football kit.
You suddenly become independent, a footballer.
Or a moderator.



It was the most intensive course i can remember.
We were like a dumpling.
Being dropped in a stew of logical frameworks
And would never be the same.

Whether we were cycling through Ixelles or St. Gilles.
Or eating Italian, Mexican or Indian
- The belgian life style -
Objective trees surrounded us.
And suddenly the Lebanese „Mâitre de”
Subtly facilitated us towards a fuller Lebanese wine.



And trees we built
For Widgets, For Botswana and Alcohol Abuse
In the Rue de Luxembourg.
Between King and Parliament.
Above a bar, where Hoegaarden and Leffe
Provided their own logic.

After a week we all went our way
Exhausted, physically and mentally.
On our way to a future where we would have to test our skills in real life.
But we always will have that suitcase.



This blog describes the marvellous „facilitatiation and moderation for logical framework analyses and project cycle management „- training by Erik Kijne (PCM group) and Frank Little (Provenium)

A simple trip abroad

It started so simple
A plane deep into the night
Starting at CPH, landing in TLL
I went to bed
I woke up at the 23rd floor
Seeing this view of
Tallinn

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I went to city hall,
To an office without a window,
But with a beautiful soviet era phone

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We went to a Datcha
8km out of the city.
Jeroen, our dutch expert arrived.
Bringing the first signs of what was to come
His flight was the last out of Copenhagen

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Our
Civitas workshop worked effectively
The Slovenians and Estonians
Debating on what ticketing system they would use.
Creative, and Outspoken
As any
LFA inspired workshop would like to be.

And then our lovely Estoniuan host surprised us,
By inviting us all to the Sauna.
It would be very rude not to oblige.
And the
Saku beer tasted nice

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The workshop continued the next day.
But our minded wandered off
To what the
Volcano would bring us

We decided to act,
And after some deliberations,
We reserved a place on the Tallink boat to Stockholm.

We had some time to visit the centre of Tallinn,
Looking at its Hanseatic centre, Ancient Reval
As two guys from the city that
destroyed that League

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The HMS Victoria gave us a smooth ride
Lovely food, and Cuban dancers.
Before entering Stockholm at is most beautiful
Through the Archipelago

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A small
trip with the use of Stockholm's ov-chipcard equivalent
Brought us to a crowded
T-Centralen.
But a hero from
VTI,
Already arranged Tickets to the city of the Mermaid

After a quick coffee with some Swedish friends,
Our
X2000 tilted across the Oresund
To an even fuller
Københavns Hovedbanegård

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We somehow managed to get in the ready-to-depart train to Hamburg,
And after a quick ferry,
We were pickede up in Oldenburg,
By Gert, another hero in this story,
who brought us back to the United Provinces


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