TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Barbara Giovanna BELLO
the Training Course “EmPOWERment 2010” has the aim to let trainees experiment different methods and practices fostering youth emancipation and empowerment, enabling them to transfer the learnt tools and metodologies to other young people with whom they work.
The surrounding idea is that youth leaders, trainers, peer educators, youth workers and multipliers can work more effectively with those people who have difficult access to the resources offered by the local or European community if they have previously used, digested and discussed themselves the methods they will use.
The trainers were from Spain, Sweden, Romania and Germany, apart from myself from Italy
Participants were form Romania, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Germany
Non formal education methods were used to deal with the way young people deal with their identity-building process, their self-definition, the barriers they need to overcome, and their empowerment. Likewise, in this Training Course youth leaders, trainers, peer educators, youth workers and multipliers were supported in the process of learning how to cope with the emotions, tensions and conflicts that arise during youth work about “sensitive” issues like emancipation, sufferance, pain and anger of disempowered young people. Trainers helped participants to transform these emotions into a positive resource to set and reach life goals (e.g. self-confidence, assertiveness, self-branding, effectiveness, potentialities).
The outcomes of the Training Course consisted in the knowledge of new tools on empowerment to be multiplied at the local level through peer to peer activities.
The TC also discussed topics related to the development of leadership skills and benefits and opportunities within the Youth in Action Programme, and other European opportunities (Leonardo Programme, Erasmus for young Entrepreneurs, etc.), as tools to achieve emancipation, autonomy and empowerment, intergenerational dialogue and social change within the minorities as well as promote relations between minority youngsters and “the society at large” (including other minority youth, “majority” youth, Insitutions, etc).
I was coordinator and co-trainer