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Training Course
7-11 June 2024 | Drugan, Bulgaria
Conflict transformation in non-formal education, community organizing and advocacy often runs against deeply entrenched divisions, stereotypes and unidimensional worldviews which prevent genuine connection and exchange of ideas and experiences, as well as their modification.
Unequipped with awareness and skills to recognize our own needs and wants, as well as communicate our lived experience honestly and effectively, we instead suppress ourselves and rely on manipulation, lies and moralizing to get others to do what we want. On both individual and political level, these tactics escalate violence and alienation instead of preventing conflict.
Knowledge about and awareness of social issues alone are not sufficient to mobilize support across political and ideological divides and lead to sustainable collective action. When we do not attend to the emotional pains underlying any given perspective, we lose the opportunity to transform suffering into constructive learning, authentic empathy and empowered agency.
In order to support our communities to transform conflict and find sustainable solutions to the problems they face, as social workers and community leaders we need to build our skills to facilitate individual and collective healing, and expand our capacity to connect, collaborate and sustain togetherness.
Program Goals
We invite you to join us in exploring and growing our power to turn conflict into connection through the courageous acts of vulnerable sharing and allowing ourselves to fully experience whatever is. We practice Radical Honesty with commitment to stay in contact, and maintain respectful acceptance of different experiences and realities.
In this intensive experiential program, we will use honest communication and somatic awareness practices in order to:
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This Training Course is
for 14 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries
and recommended for
Youth workers, Youth leaders, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, teachers, sport couches, psychologists
Working language(s):
English
Foundation "SolidarityWorks" (Youth NGO)
Our goal is to promote, encourage and support the sustainable development of individuals and communities through solidarity and collective action for social change.
At SolidarityWorks we work tirelessly to promote intergenerational and intercultural dialogue, empower marginalized groups, as well as youth, women and the elderly. We use art, storytelling, advocacy and self-development to prevent domestic and intimate partner violence, and are continuously learning how to create healthy and fulfilling interpersonal relationships as well as nurture solidarity between and among diverse groups of people.
Contact for questions:
Maggie Nazer
E-Mail:
Phone: +359889925804
Non-profit workers with monthly income under 1000 euro - 50 euro
Non-profit workers with monthly income above 1000 euro - 100 euro
Covered by the Erasmus+ program
Foundation “SolidarityWorks” will reimburse 100% of participants' travel costs (using cheapest means of transportation, economy class within the limits set by the Erasmus+ Programme.