I am home again, and have to come to post my last reflections on an amazing 5 days of learning and sharing:

• We look different, sound different, speak different languages, live different lives, but we are all the same. We have the same experience of being media professionals, who are at the same time women who have dealt with violence. We are people. We have one story and it is of the triumph of spirit.
  
• What we are silent about, what we cover up and leave unspoken, festers, like a covered sore. Speaking and telling, in that process, takes the sting away, erupts the volcano beneath, and it has no power left.
  
• I came home freer. Like Bambi said, the heaviness is gone, there is a lightness about no longer keeping the silence.
  
• Technology is a tool - something used for a purpose. It is always about the people, the connection with others, the shared story. People are always at the centre of technology.
  
• Like in life, we must cry a little, dance a little, laugh a lot. Thats what these 5 days have meant to me.
  

I would like to thank the organisers for this life-changing workshop. Let it be multiplied a hundredfold. Lets all tell our stories.


Thanks and love

Ingrid