“Rehearsal for Life”

This training course is open for voluntary and professional youth workers, trainers working directly with young people, that are interested in social problems, but are not yet working with the method of Theatre of the Opressed. The participants must be able to develop and implement a local/regional/ national/ international project afterwards and be motivated to act as multipliers of this method. Participants should be at least 18 years old from one of the following countries : Romania, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Belgium, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Macedonia. Goals of the project: • To improve communication, leadership and motivational skills of the participants • To discuss and explore the issues (especially the problems) facing by Young People and to identify the commonalities therein and how we might best help youth to address them. • To develop the Non-Formal Education Facilitation Skills of the participants, especially the use of Drama / Theatre (in particular shape of Forum and Image Theatre) as tools for working with Youth in their own communities. • To develop youth workers social theatre facilitation skills as a special tool for the inclusion; • To foster a ‘pro-active attitude’ amongst the participants and to pass-on this attitude, so that it might be multiplied within those youth and communities that we work with. • To build an awareness on social theatre methods for youth leaders and to take the first steps towards the creation of a network of forum and image theatre multipliers among youth leaders at a local, regional, national and international level