Values and Metasaga training day.

30 pupils and 9 staff from across the 6 Orkney Schools of Ambition attended a very full and demanding days training programme at Kirkwall Town Hall on Thursday 4th December 2008.

The aims of the morning presentation, presented by Janet Trevanion, were a preparation for the kind of deeper, emotional but also personally analytical thinking that designing and taking part in Metasaga entails.

It is aimed to bring the participants on a ‘journey’ of self analysis and an exploration of how they personally answered leadership skills and then how these fit in with their own personal values.

The morning session was a preparatory session for the Metasaga input that followed in the afternoon, and as such complimented the work to be covered in the afternoon.

The afternoon session, presented by Kate Coutts, was devoted to introducing Metasaga. Metasagas allow people to reflect upon important life issues, and thus help take forward the way people think about their own life and learning e.g. find yourself in the world around you.

Each of the 6 schools planned to take their own Metasaga about the catchment area of their own school and identify key stopping points. Pupils will research each stop. The school will create a Metasaga in their community. There will be a live version and a virtual version on the internet.