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Mariia Herashchenko
Hi there! Facilitating groups is the piece of artwork and it takes patience and kindness to create magic unless you bring passion to your trainings, which is half work done. I am passionate to work with people, create spaces for them to open up and plant new seeds for a change in their life and the life of those they work with. I am respectful, flexible, creative kind of person. Each training can't go without movement or creativity if I am there. Learning by doing in a safer space is my motto.
Mariia Herashchenko has 4 references for past work as a trainer.
Contact details
Trainer connections
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Hannah Marie Schütt -
Sarah Beeftink -
Andre Ebouaney -
Antonios Triantafyllakis -
Jonas Sylvester Kaspersen
Current occupation
trainer, facilitator, ESC coordinator, teacher
Work experience
My recent experience has been around the topic of Wellbeing and Mental Health especially in the movement dimension. I wish to continue with this topic in future as it has a lot of sense and impact.
I have worked with Ukrainian refugees to support them during the first period of war especially by conducting theatre and art workshops and leading Solidarity events in Berlin and in Ukraine for IDPs. I have been facilitating theatre youth exchanges from the perspective of modern youth problems, highlighting social issues by using specifics of the place and the history of the location of the project. Partly to attract attention to the abandoned historical objects to show it from a different perspective, attract attention of the tourists and also to intensify the sense of the performance by the fact of showing it through creative outdoor ways. By creating theatre routes we used performative art as the main method to communicate with offline and later online audience.
Before the war I was co-facilitating hybrid training courses on climate justice and environmental topics in rural communities.
I have been teaching English since 2009 as an individual, group teacher;
Organized 6 non-formal Thematic Outdoor Camps (Creativity, Theatre, Sports, Family , Psychology) as well well facilitated activities during local video-festivals together with ESC volunteers;
Coordinated, supervised and mentored EVS AND ESC volunteers in my organization and partner organisations;
I have completed TOT edition (2022-2023) and YOCOMO TOT (2023-2024).
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Educational pathway
I graduated from Vinnytsia Pedagogical University in Ukraine which created a great ground to work with kids and adults; equipped with pedagogical skills and competences in respect to creating favourable learning environments;
Completed dozens of workshops and courses on non-formal methods in terms of teaching English and motivating students to learn by themselves conducted by British teachers in Ukraine;
Completed 2 courses of gestalt therapy on parental/kids relationships;
Have 4 years of experience in dancing therapy;
Participated in physical theatre and street theatre in my city, performed on festivals and national events;
Worked as a volunteer in England in Buddhist Centre, in Scotland during Fringe Festival and as a EVS volunteer for 6 months in rural Lithuania. These volunteer experiences taught me how to work on an International level and helped me to develop new skills working with people from various backgrounds.
Fields of training expertise
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Animation -
Bullying & Harassment
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Campaigning & Awareness Raising -
Change Management
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Citizenship Education
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Coaching & Mentoring
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Communication Skills -
Conflict Management & Mediation
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Creativity & Art -
Crisis Management
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Diversity & Anti-Racism
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Drama & Theatre
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Education through Sports
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Environment & Ecology
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Entrepreneurship (Social)
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Equal Opportunities
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Evaluation & Assessment
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Event Management
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Financial Management
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Fundraising
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Gender Awareness & Mainstreaming
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Global Education
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Group Dynamics & Motivation
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Health & Prevention
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Human Rights
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Intercultural Learning
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International Youth Work
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Labour Rights & Employment
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Leadership Development
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Lobbying & Advocacy
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New Information Technologies
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Open Space Technology
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Organizational Management
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Outdoor & Experiential Training
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Peace Education
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People Management & Cooperation
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Personal Development & Empowerment
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Project Management
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Public Relations & Marketing
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Public Speaking
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Recognition of NFLearning
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Social Inclusion & Exclusion
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Social Media
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Storytelling & Humour
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Time Management
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Training of Trainers
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Valorisation of Projects (DEOR)
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Volunteer Programmes
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Youth Exchanges
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Youth Information Work
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Youth Worker Training
Knowledge about institutions and programmes
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Erasmus+ (KA1) Youth Exchanges
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Erasmus+ (KA1) Training & Networking
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Erasmus+ (KA2) Transnational Youth Initiatives
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Erasmus+ (KA2) Strategic Partnerships
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Erasmus+ (KA2) Capacity Building (other countries in the World)
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Erasmus+ (KA3) Youth Policy Meetings
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European Solidarity Corps Volunteering
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Erasmus+ (lifelong learning, non-youth)
Working with specific target groups
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Children
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Families
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Intercultural Teams
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Marginalized & Excluded Youth
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Minorities
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Women's Issues & Groups
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Young People with a Mental Disability
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Young People with a Physical Disability
Experience with specific geographical regions
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Eastern Europe and Caucasus
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Euro-Mediterranean Co-operation
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European Cooperation
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Latin America
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South East Europe
Language Skills
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English -
German
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Ukrainian
Trainer references
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Move 4 Wellbeing
Validated (2023-10-02)Reference person
Hannah Schuett
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#developtogether
Validated (2023-10-03)Reference person
Alla Yukhymchuk
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Fair Life: Balance
Validated (2025-04-02)Reference person
Alla Bahlei
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HAY rural youth work
Validated (2025-10-13)Reference person
Tomasz Szopa
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This profile was last modified on 2025-04-01