TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Natasha Lendjel
The aim of the "Words Shape Identity" project (KA1, Mobility of Youth Workers) is to raise awareness about an inclusive LGBT terminology and its wider implementation in practical youth work.
22 youth workers from 11 different countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey) will meet at a 7-day training course in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They will discuss different situations in LGBT communities and inclusive LGBT terminology in a safe and creative environment, where everyone is motivated to express themselves, their role in local, regional, national and European context in creating safe spaces for LGBT youth with inclusive language.
This aim will be achieved using diverse methods of non-formal education, primarily creative writing.
The added value of the project will be a web page with blogs from the participants in which they will share their knowledge and experience gained during the training course and share it with other youth workers. The latter will be also encouraged to contribute their own blogs for the mentioned web page, therefore spreading the knowledge and experience even after the project's completion.
Role: Co-trainer
Responsibility:
- co-prepare the flow of the programme in line with its aims and objectives
- run sessions connected with inclusion, discrimination, prejudice, stereotypes, learning process and methodology of workshops
- support team members
- create support materials for participants
- mentoring group of participants who were preparing own terminology based session
- contribute to the creation of the project idea and the grant application
- providing the communication flow between the applicant NGO, hotel staff and members of the community
- making sure that basic needs of the programme are sufficient in resources.