On July 18 in SOS childrens’ village of Kutaisi there was held uinformational meeting with the staff of the organization. The meeting was attended by the member of Sakrebulo – Lela kelyui96iani.
Meeting participants spoke about different problems and asked the representative of local self-government to help in solution of these problems.
Workshops with the women groups were held in Khoni, Senaki, Khurcha (Zugdidi municipality). After discussion of the examples of domestic conflicts, the work was interactive. The participants mentioned that they have never looked at themselves from the side and saw that often they are the initiators of conflicts.
- It's hard to be angry with yourself, but it is easy to keep evil on others.
- Often, when offended at someone, i pour it out on the family - because it is always difficult to beat yourself.
- If people are able to manage personal, internal conflicts there will be fewer family conflicts - such was the opinion of the participants.
At the workshops, it was noted that conflictology should be tough during the workshops, as a subject, especially in the higher classes, as young people will study themselves better, and easily will resolve conflicts of various types.
In the WSCs of Kutaisi, Senaki, Khurcha (Zugdidi Municipality) there were held group psychological meetings with women. Main topic of the meetings was crisis periods in family development according Virginia Satir, as prevention of domestic violence. Marital conflict resolution depends primarily on the spouses ability to understand, forgive and give in, i.e to compromise -.. These and other issues were discussed at the meetings, which, according to participants, are important and useful.
The discussion of personal conflicts was interesting to young people. The views expressed by them, showed that they are often in conflict with themselves: when they do not know what they want, what their purpose is. Internal conflicts, they often make out, and it is negatively reflected in relations with others.
Imitated family scenespresented by the separate groupswere interesting. Young people came to the conclusion that if we want to solve the conflict, first of all, it is necessary to resolve internal conflicts, and then it will become easier to manage family conflicts.
Workshops were held in Tskaltubo, Poti, Kutaisi.
Kutaisi Gender Advisory Council (GAC) summarizes results of three-year activity: with this aim, a large-scale conference is held. At the meeting of the GAC there were discussed organizational issues, and a list of participants was compiled. The conference was attended by representatives of 12 administrative units of Kutaisi, as well as local authorities and media.
According to members of the GAC, the conference is a good arena to share their experience, to make a record, evaluate and present the positive results of achievements in the gender area.
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