Preparations and welcome

This was our first English-language event called Deep Talk. At 17:30, we arrived at Cafe УЛАФ СТЕ to set everything up because the event took place from 18:00 until 19:00. For the future, we know we don’t have to come this early because the setup did not take that much time at all. The café owners were happy with our arrival and even helped set everything up, which sped up the process even more. Even though the owners are deaf, the communication went well. Marit even had the possibility of learning some sign language.

Jar and drawn-out questions

In the cafe, we had the whole top floor to ourselves, so there was enough privacy. The chairs were put around some tables to create a circle. After almost everybody arrived, it was time to start. One person was not able to make it (due to personal reasons). In total, there were 11 people, including Bretislav, who took pictures of the event. First, we did a short introduction to talk about Deep Talk and a little bit about ourselves. The Deep Talk is planned to be held every other week in the same café at the same time. Every time there is another topic that we would be discussing. The topic of the first Deep Talk was “first impressions.” In the preparation, we thought about questions and wrote those down. The questions were then put into a jar. After explaining how the event would take place, it was time to grab the first question out of the jar. It is expected that when you grab a question, you will answer the question. So after the first person answered the question, some people made comments about it and shared their ideas. This could be the same idea or a completely different idea. Then the jar was passed to the next person. In total, we were able to withdraw 20 questions in the hour. To end the first Deep Talk, we took a group photo by the SFERA banner.