TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Georgia Sotiropoulou
Mask of Conflict 3 is a Training Course for trainers, youth workers and peer leaders about developing the
competences of youth workers on conflict resolution and empathic communication through Gestalt Theatre and Gestalt approaches. The objectives of the project are: to introduce and further develop participants capacity to solve potential interpersonal conflicts as well as to develop their self awareness as persons, trainers and youth workers. To explore the potentials of improvisation as a way for self-discovery and creativity development. To help participants to understand the group dynamics taking place in a group of participants and to better facilitate the group process from a Gestalt perspective. To facilitate the Exchange of experience from participants regarding their previous work in theatre and youth work with Young people.
Trainers from Spain, Serbia and Greece.
This Project was designed for 21 people, youth workers (volunteers and paid) as well as European trainers from Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey.
Methods: Non-formal interactive methods include: Gestalt theatre, improvisational theatre, art based activities, imagery, discussion, sharing, exchange of experience, theory & practice, movement & reflection.
The TC achieved to develop participants' social competence, in particular, the ability to deal with inter/intra-personal conflicts in an effective way; To improve their ability to empathize with other people with whom they can be involved in a conflict; To acquire new skills and tools when it comes to the facilitation of educational or socio-therapeutic activities that have connection with conflict type of work at inter/intra-personal level; To get a new perspective of the educational and training work in the field of conflict more in connection with the field of emotional education; To become more aware of themselves as persons and about their own emotions and how express them in an assertive and healthy way while learning new ways/tools/approaches to do so; To develop their sense of spontaneity, capacity to be creative and their intuition when it comes to work in conflicts in training situations, through supervision and Gestalt Theatre but also via other techniques such as Bioenergetics and other body based approaches (“contact” or “authentic movement”).
Before the implementation of the TC: Regular meetings with the trainers team; set objectives and share responsibilities; creation of the activity timetable; adjustment of the activity timetable given the participants profiles.
During the TC: sessions on of opening and closing; group dynamics; team building activities, expectations and fears; self awareness; artistic expression; facilitation of reflection groups; meetings with the team of trainers to see if any adjustments were needed.
After the TC: Meeting with the Trainers team to give and receive feedback and assess our cooperation.