TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Sophie Breuker
The aim of the training course is to develop and enhance the ability of youth workers/leaders to recognize and deal with conflict situations that can arise during the life cycle of youth exchanges
Objectives:
To explore effective communication before, during and after a youth exchange
To identify potential conflict situations and explore how they can be prevented.
To create understanding of theories and concepts of conflict resolution
To develop competences to implement tools and methods of conflict resolution
The training targeted youth workers and youth leaders who were interested in the topic of enhancing the quality youth exchanges, effective and positive communication methods, managing conflict situations.
Countries involved: Turkey, Croatia, Poland, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Ireland and Moldova, Italy and Georgia
During the training experiential, creative and interactive non-formal and formal methods were used, taking into account participants’ experience. The processes of learning from each other and learning by doing will be crucial as our starting point will be based on participants experiences of conflict situation that they experienced within the cycle of a youth exchange.
Upon completion, participants left the Training feeling more confidence about managing conflicts on youth exchanges and understanding the processes of dealing with them when they arise. They created a template that they can apply directly before, during and after youth exchanges. This enhanced the overall quality of youth exchange projects as well and the professional development of participants
The training team consisted of 2 Irish full time trainers of which I was one.