CONFLICT AS AN OPPORTUNITY - Nonviolent practices in non-formal education

We are LOOKING FOR PARTNERS:
- actually working in non-formal educational projects for a training course about nonviolence in Italy in July 2021;
- dealing with violence prevention, social exclusiona and migrations;
- willing to cooperate in defining the project according to their purposes and needs;
- willing to partecipate to a preparatory on-line meeting in mid-September;
- interested in sending  youth workers actually involved in their organization as participants of the course;
- sending participants available to join webinars before the training course in Italy and to promote dissemination actions inside their organizations’ network;
- interested in creating a long-term partnership.

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- If you are interested in finding out more about the project, please read below.
- If you would like to apply for the project, please fill this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5TGKTWM_faGO4VDDw68xxgRFkqyj7yESIStRn3KXEZoqILg/viewform?usp=sf_link

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The concept of CONFLICT AS AN OPPORTUNITY comes from the experience of YWAC – Youth Workers Across Complexity -, a training course held by Alekoslab in 2018 and 2019 inside the Erasmus+ programme.

In this training course we would like:
- to create a context of common reflection among youth workers operating in different local contexts;
- to create a space for experimenting new educational practices to increase youth workers expertise, so that they can be able to intervene in a conscious and flexible way in their non-formal education contexts;
- to open to an interpretative view of reality that consider and respect its complexity;
- to share and spread ideas and practises inspired by a nonviolent approach.
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EXPECTED OUTCOMES
- more young people at risk (early school leavers, Neets, youngster at risk of poverty or social exclusion, migrants…) involved in activities held by partners;
- more activities planned and carried out by partners according to a nonviolence and ludic approach;
- more activities planned starting form the resources and the motivation of the youngsters;
- more international collaboration among the partners;
more activities and international projects activated by the partnership.

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APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY
The training course will follow a systemic and ecological approach, nonviolence orientated.
The training course will be organized with the “training method”
The core of this method is the pair “game-defriefing”
-We use games as main tool for the creation of relations and learning because it is intrinsically a non-violent tool.
-The debriefing is the subsequent moment, in which feelings, experiences and conflicts happened during the game are considered and recognized, to increase a cognitive process that may reveal new aspects, effective on a formative level.