On-arrival-training

Aims & objectives

- get to know the other volunteers staying in Austria
- community building, network & exchange
- intercultural & diversity based learning
- reflection on first time in Austria
- rights & responsibilites as a ESK volunteers (NA input)
- future planning
- closing & evaluation

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

two female trainers from Austria

international group with 18 participants from
Spain, Italy, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, France, Germany, Albania

Training methods used & main activities

- walk & talk
- sociometry
- rituals as starters e.g. free writing
- project landscapes: Creative way of presenting your own project
- sharing in many different ways & approaches
- bonfire with storytelliing
- cooking activity as a community builder and intercultural learning approach
- writing letters to your future self & each other

Outcomes of the activity

- every participant took their learning journals with their notes, the wishes from the group and some drawings with them

- support & network within the group created through this training (plus self- initated whatsApp group)

- methods we used during the trainig and invited them to implement those ones they liked into their everyday life

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

- preparation of the programme flow
- organisation with the venue
- creating and carrying out the training
- offering personal & individual support
- evaluating and reporting the training

I worked on this training for 4 days as a full time trainer.