COLOURS OF EMPOWERMENT

"Colours of Empowerment” is an 8-day-lasting international training course on how to design, facilitate and evaluate meaningful educational activities in inclusive youth work. The training course is targeted at youth workers, inclusion workers, educators and facilitators, and will take place from September 13th – 22nd of 2018 in a sport resort near Reykjavik, Iceland. Funding is provided by the Icelandic National Agency for ERASMUS+: Youth in Action, Key Action 1, Mobility of Youth Workers. AIM AND PROGRAMME ELEMENTS We aim at empowering and building up the competences of educational practitioners to design, facilitate and evaluate meaningful educational activities in inclusive youth work, especially with and for marginalized youth: --> exclusion, inclusion, participation: what groups and individuals are we talking about? What do we want to reach with & for them, and how? --> learning and non-formal education: approaches, conditions, models, factors, processes --> meeting the needs of inclusion groups: matching of target group ↔ needs ↔ objectives ↔ methodology, how to ensure impact & relevance --> practical tools and methods for the design, facilitation & assessment of educational activities --> creation & testing of own educational modules with/in front of group --> practice in feedback, empathy, coaching & communication skills --> hot issues, common challenges and best practices in educational inclusive youth work --> role(s), context, ethics & competences of youth workers and inclusion workers in an educational context --> self-assessment, coaching & professional development plan --> partnership-building and the development of follow-up activities PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS For participation in the this training course we are targeting youth workers, inclusion workers, educators and people actively involved in inclusive youth work. The most important criteria is that participants be in an educational position (eg facilitators, work camp leaders, trainers, group leaders, coaches etc). Participants must be aged 18+ and be residents in the country of the nominating partner organisation. Participants should be fluent in english, and be willing and committed to work hard (about 9 hours per day at least). Participants should furthermore commit to carry out agreed preparatory tasks and be willing to follow-up on the training course via active youth work, ideally in co-operation with their sending/partner organisation. CONTEXT AND ABOUT US “Hugarafl”, an Icelandic term which translates in english into “Mindpower”, is a recovery centre for people who have experienced mental health challenges and who are now working hard on improving their situation, in a spirit of empowerment and self-determination. In Mindpower, professionals are working side by side with experts by experience on equal bases and by peer to peer support. The main idea is to avoid the usual victimization and dis-empowerment of people with mental health issues, by instead truly empowering them for self-determination and equal participation. In Mindpower we have a strong youth chapter called “Youngminds”, who has in the past years also developed international activities, often with the support of ERASMUS+. FULL CALL AND APPLICATION FORM Please find the full call for partners, including a link to the online application form here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fDQpCU54AxkxfKlYNpk-E0Uw1Y2jNszM/view