Queer Hub: a collaborative space for youth workers

Queer Hub is a 6-day (+2 travel days) international training course for youth workers and educators. The course is designed for youth workers who want to make their spaces, practices and tools more inclusive, accessible and safe for LGBTQIA+ youth. The activities will include practical workshops, peer exchange, creative tools, debates and collective reflections; all based on non-formal education and participatory learning.

The training course is designed for youth workers in the early stages of their professional journey - or those wishing to deepen and structure their practice - who want to make their spaces, tools, and methodologies more accessible and safe for LGBTQIA+ young people.

Through experiential learning, practical workshops, peer exchange, and collective reflection, participants will:

• Strengthen their capacity to support queer youth in safe, meaningful, and empowering ways.
• Develop and adapt inclusive methods and youth work tools.
• Promote accessibility and safer environments in both formal and non-formal education.
• Transfer their learning to local contexts through follow-up activities and community initiatives.

Objectives of the Training Course:

• Equip youth workers with inclusive tools and practical strategies to support LGBTQIA+ youth in safe, meaningful and empowering ways.
• Create a space for mutual learning and peer exchange between youth workers, especially those in the early stages of their professional journey.
• Support participants in transferring the methods learned into their communities, by designing local trainings, inclusive events, or follow-up activities adapted to their context.
• Promote accessibility in youth work, ensuring that activities, spaces, events, and mobilities are welcoming and inclusive for people with diverse needs and backgrounds.
• Encourage an intersectional approach that recognises the multiple and overlapping forms of discrimination that affect queer youth.

Target group: You might be a facilitator, educator, mentor, youth centre staff, or NGO worker, what matters most is your motivation to create more inclusive spaces and your openness to learn, share and grow together. You will need a working level of English to participate in the training.

Infopack: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wUwyR-I2tAEsRzb8llWllqyXVlXjkiZ3/view?usp=sharing