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Welcome to the website of Frankly Speaking, a training and consultancy organisation created by Yael Ohana and Andreas Karsten and our former partner Zaneta Gozdzik. We have more than ten years of experience working in, for, with and about education and learning internationally and interculturally.
We are passionate about ethics and values such as human rights, equality, justice, and peace. We believe in the future of participatory democracies and multicultural civil societies. We demand the sharing of power and the acceptance of diversity. In our work as educators and trainers, we try to reproduce these passions and beliefs.
We pay great attention to every single project and are in a constant experimental search for a learner-centred and needs-oriented balance between complexity and simplicity, between theory and practice, between soul, mind and heart.
We believe in life-long learning and think that education and learning cannot be disconnected from the rest of the world. Our projects and our approach therefore start from the reality of the people we work with and operate in a connected and informed triangle of research, policy and practice.
We have the luxury of working with people who are motivated and who trust us to guide them through a mutual learning experience. In return, we appreciate what we can learn from our customers and partners and go to great lengths to honour their motivation and justify the extended confidence by providing high quality work.
We are flexible and responsive to the interests, needs and possibilities of our customers. We are not flexible in compromising the principles of our educational approach, which is learner-centred, participative, voluntary, empowering, developmental and based on equality of power relations.
We believe in the uniqueness and complementarity of non-formal learning and contribute much of our experience, knowledge and thinking to the community of practice we consider ourselves part of in order to cultivate transparency and critical feedback, to initiate a discourse on quality and to foster progress and development.
We are not alone, and we do not want to be. Consequently, we are embedded in a network of partners and friends with whom we co-operate whenever that is meaningfully possible.
We invite you to feel free to explore our work and our thinking and get in touch if you like what you see. Thanks for stopping by.
