TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Dragan Atanasov
This training course was implemented as part of the ICYC (I CITY YOU CITY / SEE YOU SEE) project, which was a partnership in the field of using art tools for supporting development of young people as active social citizens. It brought together youth organisations that were already experienced in using various artistic tools and approaches in their activities. The goal of this particular training course was to train a group of youth workers on how to use the methodology of Forum Theatre when tackling social issues with their target groups.
Target group of the project were youth workers other individuals who are directly involved in implementing activities with young people. The training aimed to acquaint the participants with methodology that they can use when they implement future activities on a local and international level - both within the ICYC project and elsewhere. Participants came from Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, Iceland and Macedonia. The program was implemented by a team of three trainers.
The methodology of the training course was strongly based on the approach developed by Augusto Boal - Theatre of the Oppressed.
As a final result, the participants developed three Forum Theatre plays that were performed in front of local audience at the Poshka Theatre in Struga. Furthermore, as part of this project the participants implemented local forum theatre activities in their communities.
As a full-time trainer, I was responsible for planning and implementing the activity program.