Training course: Build Inner Peace – Bring Outer Peace (strengthening youth workers impact against radicalization)

Location: Gudevica village, Bulgaria

Dates: 6-14 November 2018

Number of participants: 24

Participating countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom

Organizer: Learning for Change Foundation

Apply here: Application form

Deadline to apply: 20 August 2018

Date Of Selection: 31 August 2018

Inquiries about this training course: Ognian Gadoularov at home@learningforchange.net

Costs:

“Build Inner Peace – Bring Outer Peace” is a project financed by the Erasmus+ Programme, thus all the activities, accommodation and food are 100% covered by the EU grant. The travel costs will be reimbursed to the participants after the course up to the maximum amount limit presented below.

– Greece – 180 euro/participant
– Cyprus, Romania, Italy, France and Estonia – 275 euro/participant
– UK – 360 euro/participant

Build Inner Peace – Bring Outer Peace (strengthening youth workers impact against radicalization)

Enabling youth workers to acquire competences and methods that prevent the violent radicalization of young people. Main concepts included in the program are Positive psychology, Ecocentric development and Nature based practices for self-discovery.

One of the challenges to European countries is the violent radicalization. While refugees/immigrants enter into Europe, the extremism rises even to using violence against fellow citizens.
Young people become an easy victim of these behaviors. Lacking their own critical thinking and inner motivation for being active citizens, they indulge into manipulations and threads starting from violent behaviors in school.

In this context, there is a need to strengthen the common European values of freedom, tolerance, respect for diversity and non-discrimination. Youth work can have a significant impact in cultivating critical thinking and fundamental values among young people, preventing extremism, violence and radicalization. In fact, the Youth Work Report 2014 has identified that youth work can result in a range of positive effects for youth which enable them to enhance competences, reinforce their network and social capital, improve particular behaviors and develop positive relationships.

Given this, Build inner peace – bring outer peace aims at enabling youth workers of today to acquire additional competences and methods that prevent the violent radicalization of young people, especially among to the hard to reach young people (minorities, migrants etc.).

TRAINING OBJECTIVES
The training course is built on a flow which combines elements of practice/experience, reflection, theory and application. Thus, we are aiming at:
• To develop understanding about the common reality all over Europe regarding violent radicalization;
• To raise awareness about the reasons for radicalization happens among young people in different parts of society;
• To increase the knowledge/awareness of youth workers regarding what young people need to develop fundamental values;
• To develop skills to prevent violence and radicalization of young people, particularly to the hard to reach youth;
• To equip with innovative methods and tools for working with hard to reach young people;
• To increase the fundamental values on youth workers themselves and motivate them to work for strengthening these values with their target groups;
• To develop follow-up activities targeting hard to reach young people.

TOPICS OF THE COURSE
– Fundamental values – value-based Youth work and how to strengthen core values in youth;
– Causes and effects of violent radicalization – exploration of current situation and trends in this field;
– Methods for affecting hard to reach youth – defining suitable approaches to work with minorities, migrants, marginalized sub-cultures etc;
– Innovative tools – positive psychology, ecocentric development, and nature based methods;
– Self-analysis and self-development – how to transfer understanding about ourselves into process of conscious development.

PROGRAMME ELEMENTS
Ecocentric developmental Wheel
Working with values
Positive psychology practice
The Way of Council
Nature based methods
Experiential learning
Methods for self-development
Workshops development and delivery
Solo time in nature
Sharing
Peer-to-peer learning
Transferability
Living as a community (cleaning, cooking etc.)