Training Course: Get Storied! (STORYtelling & EDucation) 15/06/2015

Training Course

22-29 August 2015 | Sermugnano, Castiglione in Teverina (VT), Italy

Are you passionate about stories? Are you curious to learn how to use storytelling as a tool to support learning and increase the effectiveness and enjoyment of your work with young people? Then this might really be your call to adventure!

"Get Storied" is a Mobility of Youth Workers activity promoted by the Italian organisation Cooperativa Sociale Muovimente. The course wants to make trainers, facilitators and youth workers aware of the many and various uses of the non formal educational method of Storytelling and show them how it can be used to work with young people, helping them to develop a big number of important abilities and competences in the professional and personal sphere.

Our love for story is universal. And we use story all the time. Every time we understand a new set of data, learn a new skill, change an attitude, or share a part of ourselves with others, we do it through formulating some sort of a story. By using the storytelling process consciously, we can learn how to increase the effectiveness, robustness, and enjoyment of our work with young people and not only!

We'll approach storytelling in many of its ways and forms, with a particular focus on the elements of Hero's Journey model, digital storytelling and gaming, theatre and role-playing and practises of personal storytelling.

The main objectives of this traning course are:

- To discover and understand the employability competences that are developed through storytelling;

- To create an intercultural network of youth workers and organizations that use the method of storytelling in developing employability skills;

- To explore the concept of "transformational storytelling", how to use storytelling as tool for innovation to change and self-development;

Application deadline: 15 June 2015

Date of selection: 25 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.

Training Course: Stay Tuned Online 29/07/2015

Training Course

12-19 September 2015 | Djakovo, Croatia

Training Course about online communication in Youth Work.

Different non-formal education methods will be used throughout the activity, such as: brainstorming, work in group, discussions, debates, simulation, learning-by doing, peer-to-peer process, etc. Project is developed as follow-up of very successful project “Stay Tuned” that was hosted in end of 2014 in Djakovo. STO was created in order to answer this needs of organisations involved, participants that will be involved and other organisations involved in youth work all around the Europe.

Main objectives of the project are:

– to strengthen capacities of involved organisations and other organisations in Europe for communication with young people that are their targer group, including wider number of young people, using less resources (time, human resources, financial, etc)

– to promote use of ICT in youth work and non-formal education trough education of staff of involved organisations and dissemination of project results

– to establish online platform with tools, tips and materials that may be used by involved partners and participants in future, but also bu other youth organisations in Europe

– to enhance international cooperation of involved organisations that already started partnership before and wider partnership trough inclusion of other partners that are involved in this project for the first time

– to create positive buzz and new trend in youth work related to active participation, but also to the topics such as entrepreneurship, inclusion of minorities and EU citizenship that will be topics used during main activity

Project will result with rising capacities of organisations to improve activities and communication with wider target groups using online tools. Innovative online communication tools and approaches will have impact on other youth organisations active in the youth work all across the Europe.

Application deadline: 29 July 2015

Date of selection: 12 Agust 2015

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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.

Training Course: Green Power 02/06/015

Training Course

2-10 July 2015 | Tempio Pausania, Italy

Green Power is a NFEl Training Course which will be held inTempio Pausania (Italy), 02-10 July 2015. Target Group: youth workers, social workers plus a youth member of their organisation willing to act as multipliers in their territory.

"Green Power" is a multi-activity conceived inside the main general framework of european cooperation in the youth field and is focused on the issues of green skills and green jobs as a new solution for employment, Youth Participation and Active Citizenship.

This MVNGO project will take place in Sardinia, Italy and foreseen a second stage with a Youth Exchange which be held again in Tempio Pausania in March 2016.

"Green Power” will involve young people committed on non formal education activities, workshops, meetings with trainers, experts and visits to some best practices of green jobs in Sardinia in order to better picture green economy in its practical applications. 

The mobility project will focus on how to face youth unemployement developing new green job opportunities.

Participants will come from 9 eligible countries: Austria, Romania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Greece, Croatia and Italy (2).

Learning objectives of the project are: 

1. To promote the so called green skills as a competences for create new job opportunities;

2. To stimulate the creativity and sense of entrepreneurship in the green sector through nfe methodologies;

3. To share best practices, the capacities of developing and implementing international youth projects.

Through non formal education and the trainers support, participants will focus on mutual understanding of their culture and they will reflect on nowadays environmental related challenges, youth unemployment and rural depopulation in each european country and the common issues we share on these topics. 

Those visits are conceived to show participants how green skills and natural resources can be means of development for rural areas in a way that allow us to promote sustainable economic and social growth. 

The concept of sustainable development will be approached also in a way to foster youth active citizenships. 

In order to foster future cooperation, during the project there will be a project management session to promote new transnational actions.

Several methodologies are designed to ensure the principles of non formal education and intercultural learning, as group work and activities, presentations, workshops and personal assignments as well as to provide space to share experience and know-how.

The participants will have an opportunity to share their experience, to debate and discuss, discover the needs of their communities, work on simulations, lead and be leaded by each other, to learn from each other and experience situations through the use of non-formal methods which will be implemented according to the needs of the participants and youth organizations involved.

Application deadline: 2 June 2015

Date of selection: 3 June 2015

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Last languague exchange 28/04/201

Hola a todos!!

Aquí os dejamos la foto de ayer, como cada martes celebramos los intercambios de idiomas en el ON a las 21:30. En el pasado intercambio jugamos a un juego de nombres. Esperamos que lo hayáis pasado muy bien. Nos vemos en el próximo martes!!

Hi everyone!!

Here is the picture from the last event, we'd like to remind you that we meet every Tuesday at the pub: 'On' at 21:30. We played a name game, we hope you had a good time. See you at the next language exchange!!

Training Course: WANDERFUL! 31/05/015

Training Course

17-24 June 2015 | Maria Stock Pilgrim Trail, Czech Republic

Pilgrimage and outdoor guided activities as a tool for personal development, learning and transformation in youth work and training. Personal experience of a pilgrim who leaves all certainties behind and starts a journey out towards unknown landscapes.

FOR WHOM:

youth workers, youth guides and mentors, personal development trainers, who:

- are interested in exploring the potential of pilgrimage and outdoor guided activities as a tool for personal development, learning and transformation,

- do work with young people and have space and wish to use outcomes of the training back home,

- are ready to spend one week walking in Czech landscape, in very basic conditions, in community with 20 people from different countries, 

- are able to work in English.

(The group of ca. 20 people is almost complete, we only look for max 5 more people)

MAIN OBJECTIVE of the training is to explore pilgrimage and outdoor guided activities as a tool for personal development, learning and transformation in youth work. For this we will use the personal experience of a pilgrim who leaves his/her certainties behind and starts his/her journey out towards unknown landscape, finds him/herself in new unusual situations. In the same time he/she has possibilities available for learning from those moments. Further these experiences will be systematically used and analysed as an example for the transfer into participants' realities.

METHODOLOGY:

Group of 20 youth workers from different European countries will pilgrim together through Czech landscape. We will be sleeping outside, cooking for ourselves, sharing different approaches and tools connected with community and nature based youth work. In the beginning there will be more of personal experience and individual reflection. Towards the end the focus will be more on how to use this experience back home in favour of our youngsters and communities.

MAIN ASPECTS OF THE PROGRAMME:

- Exploring our characters, strengths, values, roles as guides, youth workers and trainers.

- Sharing about pilgrimage in different times and cultures.

- Possible use of pilgrimage in education, youth work and training.

- Reflecting and sharing about tools of transformations and pilgrimage as one of them.

- How to adapt pilgrimage to our realities, conditions, target groups, resources, personal styles.

- Discovering our ways of dealing with challenges, understanding the potential of difficulties.

- How to prepare a pilgrimage, what to expect, what to have in mind for the logistics.

- Collecting the outcomes.

Application deadline: 31 May 2015

Date of selection: 2 June 2015

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Training Course: Training Course on Use of Cultural Heritage in Youth Work 04/05/015

Training Course

18 July - 11 August 2015 | Amsterdam , Netherlands

We would like to invite you to join a unique training course for youth leaders and youth workers on the ways to use cultural heritage in youth work.

A unique training course on learning the methods of use of cultural heritage in youth work and intercultural development.

The course is structured in the following way - from MON to FRI participants will have trainings from 9 am to 12 where trainers will discuss the issues of use of cultural heritage in youth work and intercultural development. In the afternoon participants will visit museums investigating cultural heritage in order to discuss it during next trainings.

Also significant attention will be given to issues of intercultural development. Participants will be given a number of trainings on intercultural learning delivered by experienced trainers.

The aims of the course:

Develop intercultural skills of participants

Give the knowledge and skills on use of cultural heritage in youth work

Develop together possible projects on the use of cultural heritage in international youth work

The unique methodology allowing to use cultural heritage in youth work will be applied.

Application deadline: 4 June 2015

Date of selection: 18 June 2015

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