LABIRINT:training course on outdoor education for youth workers

Aims & objectives

-to introduce principles of experiential learning and outdoor education;
-to introduce the concept of youth empowerment and to experience
empowerment tools in outdoor education;
-to understand the importance of youth participation and how outdoor
education methods can contribute to more interactive education process
inside youth centers, schools/ universities;
-to practice and to test different outdoor methods, tools and techniques;
-to take the responsibility for fostering youth;
-to build competences in designing, implementing and evaluation of outdoor
education activity;
-to understand principles of group learning through facilitation and debriefing of
outdoor activities;
-to understand the value of personal development through feedback;
-to identify the limits of educator in the education process in outdoor education;
-to understand how to give responsibility for the learning process and
educational flow to learners during outdoor activities.

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

Participants from Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, North Macedonia, Armenia, Gergia, Russian Federation,Austria, Germany
Profile:
youth leaders, youth workers dealing with young people from diverse
background, staff
from NGOs and trainers.

Training methods used & main activities

Interactive non-formal education methods (experiential learning exercises, presentations, discussions, workshops, expert inputs, etc.), outdoor methodology, low rope courses, night hike etc.

Outcomes of the activity

-development of competences of educators in outdoor education
-development of competences in group dynamics
- cooperation and networking

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

a trainer

I worked on this training for 7 days as a full time trainer.