TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
http://trainers.salto-youth.net/PolonaSiterDrnovek/
Polona simply adores youth work and never stops to awe at its impact. She is grateful, when she can create spaces, where people can safely decide about their participation. She needs a lot of personal space and at the same time she likes very much to work in teams, where, she believes, true magic happens. Her favourite contents of exploring are (at the moment) learning, monitoring and evaluating, project management and impact, communication, well-being and self-care and the power of stories.
Polona Siter Drnovšek has 5 references for past work as a trainer.
Free lance facilitator, educator and project manager.
I have been facilitating/delivering trainings maily within E+: YiA and European Solidarity Projects: International study visits, national workshops for Quality label applicants, trainings for accessors, before-departure, on-arrival and mid-term evaluation trainings for participants, national and international trainings Impact+ for youth field. After a pandemic situation with coronavirus, I have delivered many of those events on-line.
Beside that, my roots are in local youth work: I was a director of a local youth center for 10 years, working from local to international level and I keep my interest for local youth work always vivid.
- I hold a Bachelor's degree in Sociology (University of Ljubljana): Studies empowered me for observing processes in the society and strengthen my sensibility for exclusion and inequality.
- Studying and practicing Nonviolent communication (by Marshall Rosenberg) gave a new dimension of connecting to fellow human-beings , no matter in which contexts of my life and is extremely useful also when supporting group processes.
- When I got acquainted with the concept of The Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter (it was on a week long training where I was observing the trainers or better, hosts), I decided that I want to do facilitation professionally. Besides the principles of non-formal learning from youth work, that I knew before, this is like an up-grade, a step higher or deeper into supporting group processes.
- Since many, many years I have practiced yoga, which has brought in my life a lot of calmness and stability and helps me to connect with my self in any moment.
This profile was last modified on 2022-07-16