TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Oleksandr Fomichov
Aim - to promote equal interreligious dialogue for tolerance and peacebuilding.
Objectives:
- to increase participants’ understanding about diverse cultures and religions roots,
- to develop specific skills of respectful dialogue and using inclusive communication as a tool,
- to identify relationships between religions from different regions of European countries,
- to explore the possibilities of using alternative narratives as a pedagogical tool for interreligious education,
- to create methods which participants can implement in their local realities for interreligious education.
22 young participants from Belarus, Russia, Czech Republic, France, Spain, Italy and Ukraine were involved.
Training was based on non-formal education methodologies: small groups discussions, role-plays, experiential learning, intercultural performances, reflections. For example, we use alternative narratives for critical thinking about role of the stereotypes about believers in young people` environment
We facilitated deep processes of mutual understanding. Groups included representatives of 4 religious views and atheists, that`s why we achieved big success created comfortable and respectful conditions for their interactive expression.
Final feedbacks and surveys showed significant fulfillness of training objectives.
We help them to develop follow up activities and use one of the idea in 2016 to produce social video for the International Peace Day - 21st September - Action Day against Islamophobia and Religious Intolerance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40mr1mKlsw0&t=3s
https://www.taize.fr/en_article17415.html
I designed non-formal education process and lead the sessions for international group of participants within programme of the meeting, including informal evenings.