I’ve been doubting for a little while if I should share with you what else I do. Since I was pretty out of the minor for some time, it didn’t mean I was not doing other things.
The initiative Kazerne Young is relatively new, and Tuesday (yes the same one as our evaluation) we will have our very first big event. Since I’m the person in ‘charge’, lack of a better word, I have been working my ass off to arrange everything. But as I see it, I have been working on interactions too. Planning an event is actually planning a form of an interaction even far before it happens.
Especially since the “Drink&Talk” nights of Kazerne Young, are meant to encourage the audience to participate in the conversations we have with the speakers. This includes thinking beforehand how we place the people, how to promote the topic, how to talk the whole night together etc.
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Next to that, we don’t have a budget, which means we had to ask people to show&tell about their project without being able to pay them. Often you get a no, because of time, because of money and because of the fact we don’t have a reputation yet. A lot of people are afraid of where they will end up, just as we are afraid if they will show up at all. Although you learn so quickly by doing, and I learned so much about the right and the wrong way to approach people. Also I realised a yes is actually still a no until they show up infront of your nose and tell you how true their yes is. Dealing with disappointments, stress and handling the situations are things that I am learning while organising this event.
The communication between 3 different parties is difficult, you need to make sure everyone gets their information in time and only the information that is relevant for them. Otherwise you will confuse people, but also you spend a lot of time fixing this.
A thing I learned from the one event we did before is that you have to be able to trust others in doing things for you. It is simply not possible to do it all alone, in some things I’m a perfectionist. Although I realised quickly that there are more ways to do it all, and just give others the opportunity to do it their way.
Yes, this event took a lot of my time - the meetings, the promotions and the endless phone calls and e-mails I had to send. Although I do have to say, that since I was not feeling this last assignment of my Minor I was happy to have this opportunity on the other side. - more in the next post.
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