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

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.)