This was a one-day workshop (19th Nov.2017 Sunday) is packed with essential information based on the UN, relevant and useful tips on how to MUN-on-the-run, from the best of our school and a simulation of an actual MUN with mini-agenda and debate. Specially designed for First-Time MUN-ers and students who may not be as confident on stage, this workshop will equip you with all the necessary details on how to MUN and become a confident speaker.

L1 – Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth,

Knowing that my strength in this particular field was prominent, I took the liberty of making the presentations for the workshop. With the setting of the syllabus and making the study guides, I took care of everything. So that I could use my strengths in the right place. My weakness, as I know it, was listening to others so this time, as I could enhance it, I delegated work to my fellow teammates that made me listen to them at times which helped me overcome my weakness slowly.

L5 – Demonstrate skills and benefits of working collaboratively,

We were four students and one teacher who were teamed up to conduct FSMUN and this workshop. Honestly, I think we did an amazing job as in the start we did have some hiccups but we started understanding each other and today I can proudly say that working with them was a privilege. Something to learn is that not everyone is perfect and honestly with these events, I understood that one could become perfect but only if they are ready to accept their mistakes. Many mistakes happened and I would have never known if my team members wouldn’t have pointed out. I understood that sometimes more minds extend to the duration of taking a decision but the success rate of that decision is much higher.

L6 – Engagement with issues of global significance,

Today globally MUNs have evolved but in India specifically, Surat students do not understand the main crux of these events. Through this workshop I and my team tried to influence some students and hope to bring a change in the MUN industry which is slowing becoming about money, our goal was to make the students understand the greater good of this event and display the significance of it in their day to day life.

L7 – Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions

While hosting and chalking out the event there were multiple times where we had to engage in handling a large group of children younger than us, we had to understand how to handle them since it was the first time I and my colleagues were handling such a large number of them without supervision, so we had to understand how to treat them, how to cater to their doubts and queries, this helped us consider how our actions affected the others and their learning.