Training Course: NATURE OF EVS 31/05/2015

Training Course

24-31 July 2015 | Sluňákov, Czech Republic

We invite all EVS actors to a space for refreshment. Come to review your project, get inspiration from others, recharge your motivation in an ecological centre or learn in solitude from nature. Explore the potential, depth and sustainability of your EVS.

FOR WHOM?

Nature of EVS is a training course for 24 youth workers, trainers, project coordinators, mentors and National Agencies staff, who:

- are involved in work with EVS volunteers,

- want to deepen their understanding of the nature of EVS as a life journey and a service,

- are ready to explore and reflect on these topic in an experiential training course, in a community setting and in closer contact with nature,

- are able and ready to work in English,

- feel the call to work on the objectives mentioned below.

OBJECTIVES:

● To understand the complex story of EVS in connection with main aspects of human life, natural cycles and traditional mythology.

● To explore the potential of community life and service as a tool for EVS projects beneficial for all actors involved.

● To create space for networking and sharing about EVS examples and their meanings for different participants.

● To experience personal strengths and shadows as EVS actors, to learn from it and get inspiration for future work.

● To collect useful tools and motivation for developing EVS into a meaningful sustainable experience in participant's realities.

KEY PROGRAMME ELEMENTS:

The EVS cycle as the archetypal Hero’s Journey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth), The Way of Council (http://www.heart-source.com/council/way_of_council.html), community building and experiencing community, learning and challenge, nature as a guide, communication and partnership, storytelling, the role of spirituality and rites in education and EVS, the nature of ‘service’, sustainability on environmental, social, environmental, cultural and economic level, how to use all this back in our communities and work practices.

The training course is based on non-formal education and experiential learning. We will experience different community settings close to the nature and more traditional ways of living, and use these elements as important components of our learning processes. We invite participants with different levels of experience (from EVS veterans to EVS newcomers) and a substantial part of the program will be based on sharing experience and exchange of good practice and inspiration.

Application deadline: 31 May 2015

Date of selection: 10 June 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.