VISUALLY: A guide to reach youth through visuals

The project sets the following objectives:

• To promote effective communication techniques in youth work;
• To introduce visual facilitation to youth workers/educators/youth leaders as a way of engaging young people;
• To practice visual facilitation techniques and visual thinking in order to support the ideas of young people;
• To promote visual facilitation as an inclusive tool enabling youth workers to engage young people with fewer opportunities and difficult to reach youth;
• To create an space for exchange of good practices for involvement of young people in volunteering activities.

Participant profile
The training course is designed for youth workers, youth leaders, educators, trainers and/or teachers. Participants should be involved in the youth work or the education field and must have interest to gain skills/knowledge in visual facilitation as well as the attitude to transfer the learning in the organization and incorporate it in their work.

Ideally, the profile of young people that they work with are minors or youth at risk (young people from low-income families/dysfunctional families, young migrants/minority representatives/refugees, etc.)

Participants need to be official residents of one of the partner countries, be over 18 years of age and have at least an intermediate level of English. Participants are expected to participate fully in the program and commit to the dissemination activities.

Training program
The training course will be intense and it will include 3 practical sessions of 90 minutes and a last session of 60 minutes per day with designated time for reflection (a visual schedule will be sent to selected participants shortly after selection).

The training program will cover introduction to graphic facilitation principles, practical sessions in drawing and developing a personal visual vocabulary, as well as collaborative work on techniques to apply visual thinking/facilitation in the context of youth work and education.

As a result, we foresee to develop two physical results: a deck of reflection cards and a set of mini visual dictionaries on topics such as entrepreneurship, intercultural communication, active citizenship or social inclusion. Both resources will be edited digitally and made available online.