Mid term seminar for ESC volunteers

Aims & objectives

Hors Pistes, as lead organisation, coordinates the hosting of around 30 or 40 ESC volunteers per year, which allow us to develop our own training courses twice a year, at the arrival and at the mid-term. The specific objectives of this mid-term training were : allow the volunteers to develop and facilitate non-formal education based workshops in their hosting organisations (methods of facilitation, support to create their own workshops) and to work on valorisation of their projects : recognition of learnings, evaluation of the impact from the volunteer’s perspective, planning on future projects.

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

30 international ESC volunteers from Germany, Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Georgia, Austria, Turkey.

4 trainers from France and Greece.

Training methods used & main activities

- brainstorming on challenges and issues, sharing good practices
- exploration and practice of Active listening and non-violent communication
- prevention of gender-based violence (cases studies)
- exploration of SKAB (Skills, Knowledges Attitudes, Behaviours)
- self directed exploration of 8 keys competences
- peer to peer practice of workshops

Outcomes of the activity

- more than 15 workshops created by the volunteers in 2024

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Co organiser and trainer, full time.

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