Pathways to Creative Youth Work

WHAT IS PATHWAYS TO CREATIVE YOUTH WORK?

"Pathways to Creative Youth Work" is a training course, funded by the Erasmus+ programme, promoted by the German NGO BeASILY UG, and built upon the knowledge and experiences gained from earlier iterations: "Pathways to Youth Work" in the Netherlands (2015-16) and "Pathways to Youth Leadership" in Sardinia & Serbia (2018-19).

Its main aim is to develop awareness and understanding of how creative processes can be harnessed to make our youth work even more effectively, and to explore how these competences can be applied in an Erasmus+ context.

The project will involve 30 participants and 5 trainers from 12 different European countries (Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey).

It foresees two training events, the first to take place in Sardinia, Italy, from the 7th to the 14th of November 2025 and the second in Hof, Germany, from the 5th to the 13th of May 2026 (travel days included). Participants are expected to be able to attend both training events.

PROJECT CONTEXT

How do we become youth workers? How can we use creativity, the arts and being proactive in our youth work to work with young people? How can we become more creative in our responses to the challenges in youth work? Do you or your organisation have ideas for arts-based youth projects but no idea if you have the skills to do them? How can your organisation develop the skills to support staff and volunteers on the next Youth Exchange? How can your organisation develop the habits that will help you to improve your youth work practice?

If these are some of the questions facing you or your organisation, your volunteers, young leaders and youth workers then "Pathways to Creative Youth Work" could be the answer.

The project focuses on:

• The content and intention of creative youth work, and how we structure creative ideas developed from youth participation, to fit into the model of effective habits, developed by Steven Covey;
• The role of youth workers in presenting creative ideas and challenges to young people using: stories, music, visual arts, and theatre;
• The use of the creative media in developing rapport, attention, building relationships with young people.
   

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

The main objectives of "Pathways to Creative Youth Work" are:

• To develop awareness and build on a greater understanding of how we can use creative skills and processes in our youth work;
• To explore and understand the effects of effective creativity in the youth work role;
• To gain a greater awareness of the practices we can use in creative youth work and how they can be extended to other aspects of our personal and professional lives;
• To identify and realise the opportunities to put creative youth work skills into effective practice;
• To follow the recognition pathways offered through Youthpass, badge based learning & the ETS YW framework of competences;
• To explore the opportunities for realising participants.

DISCOVER MORE!

More details and information are available at the infopage:
https://www.beasily.com/event/pathways-to-creative-youth-work-part-1-3/register