The project launched on Monday November 16th will go on for five years and is coordinated by Timeout Foundation and The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE). Together we want to create...
Participating in the discussions, held in both Finnish and Swedish, were people from across the country: young people, pensioners, health and social care professionals, supervisors and managers, parishioners, employees of...
In the autumn now, the pandemic is escalating again and it was clear in the discussions that people are suffering fatigue, they are constantly on their guard, feeling uncertain and...
The participants represented different backgrounds, genders, generations, regions, countries and realities of life. The dialogues will be continued in autumn 2020. Welcome to join in! Lockdown Dialogues of spring 2020...
LOCKDOWN DIALOGUES 12 MAY The Lockdown Dialogues, which examine citizens’ experiences in Finland during the lockdown, continued in May. These dialogues offer citizens an opportunity for constructive dialogue in the...
The dialogue series of this spring has been concluded. At the end of an exceptional spring, citizens met to reflect on their experiences together. The 17 dialogues held for the...
More than 200 people from different parts of Finland and the world participated in the Lockdown Dialogues Worry about themselves and others, strengthening of communality, blaming and feeling guilty, astonishment...
LOCKDOWN DIALOGUES 28 APRIL Life in a locked down world has put everything on hold The Lockdown Dialogues helped build an understanding of what it is like to live in...
Timeout’s ground rules for a constructive discussion encourage the participants to talk about their own experiences and give the others time to talk about their own. But what are the...
I wrote in the Timeout-blog about how to create a good atmosphere for an equal encounter by offering people a chance to talk about their own experiences (read the text)....
“I have strong personal experience in reducing hate speech.” The promise made by Head of Audience Dialogue at Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle Sami Koivisto is a tough one. There is...
Where do new methods and approaches of facilitation and societal development stem from? I wondered this question more and more at the end of 2016. I made frameworks for visualising...