Summary
The importance of this Celebration step is inspired and adapted from the Dragon Dreaming approach (https://dragondreaming.org), which makes it different from many other project management processes. Here, celebration is not a task of the noisy extrovert, but rather part of reflection, recognition of effort and acknowledgment.
It is about acknowledging everything that went well in the project and everything that did not go so well. Celebration is also an important process that reconnects the performance of a project all the way back to the initial brainstorming phase.
Community and capacity building is encouraged through Celebration. It gives the chance to step back a little from the everyday stress a project may bring. We look at what we have learned, which new skills we have acquired and where we have actually left our comfort zone and encountered ‘Aha-Moments’ of change of perception and outlook on the considered issue.
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Date: November 2017-2020
This work has been funded through the ALICE project. ALICE is a project funded in 75% by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the umbrella of INTERREG Atlantic Area with the application code: EAPA_261/2016. The 11 partners involved in the project are from Portugal, Spain, Northern Ireland, France, The Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The three-year project started in November 2017 has cost 3 million euros with 25% covered by the beneficiary partners.
Credits: Denis Bailly, Johanna Ballé, Klervi Fustec, Juliette Herry, Michel Lample, Manuelle Philippe.