Let´s Dream Wider - Identity, Vision, Action

Aims & objectives

The TC aimed to equip participants to have a more inclusive approach in their (youth) work. It was a resource for participants to be vulnerable in a safer space, where being open is embraced, focusing connections rather than differences with the understanding that diversity and social inclusion are essential components of living together. For this non-formal education methods from dragon dreaming, radical diversity, storytelling etc. were used
At the end all pax created a concrete action plan for a specific change that they implemented in their daily life and work for a more inclusive environment.

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

Target group:
- Youth workers, people working regularly with young people on a voluntary or paid basis, interested in the topic of inclusion
- Activists in their respective fields that have the role of a multiplier in social inclusion
- people with diverse backgrounds: including, but not limited to, people with: lived experience of migration (including refugees), disabilities, neurodiversity, lgbtiq*, people of color, people with fewer learning opportunities, people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds etc.
- Participants from all program countries and Eastern Partnership countries

Training methods used & main activities

- non formal methods of storytelling, fishbowl discussions, experiential learning, radical diversity etc
- certain elements of dragon dreaming methods (espec. Dream circle & celebration)
- methods from improvisational theatre
- reflection spaces
- city exploration through the lens of social inclusion
- step by step to an individual action plan

Outcomes of the activity

- feedback for the training was positive throughout
- check-in meeting after the training showed that a lot of the participants implemented first steps from their action plans
- two participants worked with the dragon dreaming method after the seminar

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

- concept of the training, designing and implementing the learning process in a team of trainers
- reporting on the training
- facilitating the training
- working together with all stakeholders involved

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.