Guides on the road again

Guides on the road again is the next step of a very sucessful training working with social inclusion. The program will take 9 days involving 30 young social workers working in this field. Our goals are to continue work against social exclusion, to extend knowledge of the social workers, exchange ideas, experiences, in order to make them even more effective within their own community. For this, our practical training involves 6 EU countries, and 4 eastern partner countries. As a first step on the previous training, the participants have put a Handbook of Methodology together, full with activities, tips, ideas which they can use in their work. This time we would like to create a projects to bring youngsters closer to a solution on regional level. The program is mainly based on informal educational methods, tools of selfexperience and non-violent communication, but presentations, transferring infos, space for sharing experiences and views, practical methodical presentations, active practice, and creating own projects are as well on the list. Getting closer to the end of the training the participants again will have the chance of trying out „live” what they have learnt – they will have to arrange a one day community building program for small community (roma and orphanage children). This part will integrate into a longer process created by our Organisation. The participating countries are: France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia Aims: Gain knowledge about experiential education used in the field of social inclusion; Gain experience how to handle challenging situations during outdoor trainings; Learn about Non-violent communication (NVC) Learn about yourself Develop your own project implemented to your local area Contact making, sharing experiences, views, practicies THEMES & PROGRAMME Tools are: Experiential education, ropes activities, theoretical lectures and practical education, workshops and self experience, non-violent communication, project management. Themes are: · Social inclusion · Planning and running of complex outdoor activities/programs · How to use experiential education on the field of social inclusion · Self knowledge – self understanding Planning own project can be implement localy ACADEMY OF EXPERIENCE HUNGARY – ÉLMÉNYAKADÉMIA KÖZHASZNÚ EGYESÜLET is a non-profit outdoor experiential education center dealing with youth and yout workers in the field of experiential education. We would like to help young people living in difficult circumstances, in segregation or fighting with learning difficulties and also the people taking care of them: teachers, trainers, social workers by enriching their lives with the results of our programs. Do this in such way that by putting their experiences in practice they would reach permanent changes in their knowledge and attitude. Our main method is experiential education, which builds on the idea of “learning by doing”. Our organization, the Academy of Experience Non-Profit Association was founded at the end of 2005 by 12 enthusiastic volunteers, who wanted to commit themselves to non-formal education and personal development of young and adult people. Our members come from very diverse backgrounds including teaching, sociology, economy, recreation, psychology and outdoor training and with our volunteer helpers we form an enthusiastic team Our objectives are to develop personal and group abilities, leadership skills, self-confidence, courage and entrepreneurship through experiential education in young people and employees of different organizations. Our Mission is to contribute to the education of such people who feel responsible for themselves, their environment and their society. For more info about us: www.elmenyakademia.hu For infolette and application form: http://elmenyakademia.hu/hu/projektek/hazai/guidesontheroadagain.html