TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Hannah Marie Schütt
This training aims to give space to youth workers to discover their own understanding of wellbeing through a preventive perspective in a personal sense and in the context of youth work. It will increase the awareness of sustainable wellbeing by equipping the participants with movement and embodied techniques.
The objectives of the Training Course were:
● to create a safer space for self-reflection and build up a personal understanding of
wellbeing by highlighting the importance of safety spaces and provide with tools
and techniques to create such;
● to create a safe community and network to share best-practices to support each
other in their day-to-day activities with youngsters and provide them with tools and
methods of self-care and emotional balance;
● to provide youth workers with body work techniques to release tension and stress,
to cope with emotions and to apply them in their youth work;
● to learn about boundaries to foster personal wellbeing in youth work and private
life;
● to supply youth workers with instruments and self-discovered tools to work on
wellbeing with young people as well as empowerment tools to understand their
mental health as a life skill and erase the taboo of asking for help.
The target group of the training course consisted of youth workers, working regularly with young people. They were also willing to dive deep into the concept of wellbeing, emotional safety and learning through the body. We selected on the basis of motivation. The participants were from Erasmus+ Youth Programme Countries & Eastern Partnership countries. In total we had 21 participants from 17 different countries.
The team consisted of four trainers from the Netherlands, Ukraine, Belgium/Syria and Germany.
The methodologies were based on non-formal education and experiential learning principles. The approach of this training is learning through embodied movement techniques. The methodology we use is movement in all its varieties – to be “out of our heads and into our bodies” to literally embody this wellbeing ourselves. In the Training Course we used non-formal methods such as World Café, Future lab and self-directed learning.
The Training Course achieved more awareness of self-regulation and personal wellbeing-strategies and a bbtter ability to build and maintain own boundaries professionally and personally as well as respecting them. Moreover the participants left with a better ability to address own needs with the acknowledgement and recognition of its high importance and new knowledge of a variety of body-oriented tools to work towards emotional safety with youngsters. Next to that an achievement is the increased feeling of confidence in order to incorporate the learned tools and knowledge in personal and professional life.
As a team of trainers we all aced on the same level of responsibilities. Together we created the whole idea and programme of the Training Course and facilitated it. We communicated with the NA and helped with organisational issues. Next to that we were involved in selecting the participants and communicating with them.
I was very happy to work with Hannah on this training. I got to know her as a very energetic, enthousiastic and empathic trainer. She was very well prepared to the training, but also able adjust on the spot to the situation or needs of the participants.