Breakout Boxes

Aims & objectives

The project aimed to give youth workers and
youth leaders tools, frameworks and space to
create and practice facilitation and design of educational
escape boxes that address social issues and can be
applied in educational and youth work contexts.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

An international mix of youth workers, educators, youth work trainers, teachers.

Training methods used & main activities

Roleplay games, simulation games, design-thinking exercises, team-building activities, case analysis, group works, reflection processes, game development process with testing & feedback.

Outcomes of the activity

The outcomes of the activity included enhanced capacity of participants to facilitate existing educational escape box games and design new educational escape games. The training's outcomes included development of game prototypes.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

One of the two trainers of the course.

I worked on this training for 6 days as a full time trainer.