During the wokshop we tried to achieve the aim "trying to find solutions in other places".

Sometimes even the most successful teachers come to a point where they do not know how to go on. This is very exhausting in everyday work at school. According to A. Molnar and B. Lindquist there exists a method which is supported by cybernetic models, the theory about systems and elements of the therapy for families and which tries to find solutions to more complicated problems.

"If something has to be changed, there has something to be changed", you can say this sentence very easily but it is hard to practise it in reality. What has to be changed ? Who has to change ? If people change themselves, this very often leads to changes within the surrounding area itself. As the control about your own behaviour is more likely to happen, persons who work pedagogically are experts to change themselves. This way is easy but difficult at the same time. You have to leave the pattern of thinking in cause - effect terms as well as special patterns of diagnosis. Practising the method of Molnar / Linquist, problematic behaviour is regarded as being one part of the socially surrounding field and it cannot be regarded as being independent from it. This approach is represented by Professor U. Grau (and others) who teaches at the University in Kiel.

During the workshop the teachers approached this theory. The following way was chosen: Using small experiments of perception seemingly "objective" patterns were put into question. These experiments were meant to make us start reflecting and revising our own points of view and aimed at gaining a more moderate way of perception and interpreting "facts". Though these experiments seemed to be funny when being conducted everybody felt very serious when getting to know what they showed about his / her own behaviour when working practically. The importance of subjective ways of perception in problematic situations and going on to perceive that way became very obvious and was felt very intense. In the second part we tried to find more flexible solutions according to that model. All teachers dealt intensively with diverging explanations and ideas on own problems and tried to be objective when looking for positive explanations and own strong points in contexts of situations. The creative atmosphere having been created by the participants themselves, encouraged them to experiment with their ideas on solutions. They became curious and would have liked to go on experimenting. This workshop was an interesting encounter of people of diverging social contexts. This meeting became so successful because women and men were willing to develop and discover each other. They became curious to deal with new concepts and it was so successful because of a most sensitive interpreter (Irena) who was able to translate all the wishes of the participants in a most appropriate way. The metaphor "to untie knots" is a symbol of those solutions which are so difficult to find because so many people have so different origins and practice so varying professions. All participants were astonished about the amazing solution.