Training Course - Theater for Youth - Switzerland

Training Course: Theater for Youth

Location: Schwanden/Sigriswil, Switzerland

Dates: 26 November – 3 December 2017

Number of participants: 30

Participating countries: Czech Republic, Egypt, Ireland, Israel, KOSOVO*, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Organizer: Verein Naturkultur Association – NGO

Apply here: Application form

Deadline to apply: 22nd July 2017

Inquiries about this training course: Oliver Schneitter, E-Mail: info@nakultur.ch

Costs: This project is NOT financed by the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.

70% of travel costs and 100% of visa costs will be reimbursed

70 CHF participation fee

Accommodation and food as well as program costs are covered

Theater for Youth

“Theatre for Youth” is an action based training course on the Theater of the Oppressed Methodolody, designed for youth workers and professionals who deal and work on antidiscrimination, human rights protection and intercultural learning.

General Description

Theater of the Oppressed is an innovative educational method, which is designed for people without experiences in acting or expressing on the stage or in public.

With the Theater of Oppressed method participants can discover empowering solutions for everyday life while working with young people.

Learning experience can be implemented by youth workers, social workers, teachers and educators for analyzing and discovering difficulties in real life situation, to establish trust and mutual respect and understanding not only on the stage, but in everyday life.

The training will allow you to develop your own skillset or toolkit, with different inputs, approaches and exercises, so that you:

1. Become more aware of your own communication at all levels: non-verbal, vocal and verbal. This will help you to communicate more effectively and more clearly with the people you work with (one on one as mentor, coach, or with groups of young people as a youth worker, educator or trainer).

2. Discover new possibilities of movement to support your communication. Tbese tools can help you especially when you work with people who have limited verbal skills, wheter because they have physical limitations, or because they are immigrants in your country and have not mastered the new language yet, or because they come from places where limited vocabulary is used only.

You will be able to create excercises which will support them in expressing their feelings, thoughts, and you will be able to design those which help you to map relationships on a non-verbal level in groups.

3. Improve your capacity for creating connection with others and gain their willing cooperation. This capacity and skill-set will help you when you set up a new group, start a new coaching or therapy session, or enter to a new group for a limited time as a trainer.

4. Develop a more persuasive and impactful communication. This tool-kit is two-fold: you will be able to support your mentorees, coachees, youth you work with in general to become more aware of their communication, and to be able to use different style of communication in different social situations (which is a skills sometimes lacking because of insufficient cultural knowledge as we find it for example with immigrant groups).

And on the other hand you will have an easier time to find connection to your target group.

Theater for Youth is an action-based training course, designed for youth workers and professionals who deal and work on antidiscrimination, human rights protection and intercultural learning.