TOTEM: Training of Trainers with Erasmus Mindset

This training course is dedicated to youth workers who want to develop their training competences. The structure will be similar to a Train the Trainers (TOT). We want to bring together both experienced and unexperienced youth worker that are motivated and willing to learn.

Our project objectives are:

1. Improve participants’ competences in finding the needs of the young people they work with;

2. Help participants better understand how to prepare and implement a training session;

3. Develop participants skills in implementing and debriefing non-formal education methods.

This project is mainly addressed to:

• Youth workers that are currently working with young people;
• Youth workers that are new in the youth field but are actively volunteering in an organization;
• Trainers that want to improve their competences;
• Teachers that want to start a training carrier and that are already involved in extracurricular activities;
• Volunteers in non-profit organizations that want to become trainers.
• Age limit: over 18

Participants in this training course will learn how to:

• Prepare a training session;
• Set objectives;
• Find and select methods;
• Implement non-formal education methods;
• Adapt their methods to a specific target group;
• Coordinate a group of young people;
• How to create a training career;
• Connections between E+ and being a trainer;
• Implement debriefing;
• Become self-organized;
• Learn how to learn;
• Be better with time management;
• Become more self-confident.