The Art of Dialogue Training

Aims & objectives

● Identify (new) approaches how to engage young people and decisions makers to work together for a world that works for all ● Stakeholder analysis, purpose and aims of projects and structures for youth participation (how to do projects that involve many different stakeholders - get analytic tools for youth participation structures) ● Promote dialogue as an attitude towards a participatory culture ● Identify success factors and potential national acupuncture points for a change of attitude towards youth participation

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

The group was diverse, composed of participants from a broad variety of countries eligible to apply for KA3 projects - some of them were very experienced with KA3 projects, to others the field was relatively new.

Training methods used & main activities

- non-formal education
- stakeholder analysis
- open space technology
- appreciative inquiry
- Art of Hosting methodology

Outcomes of the activity

-> new and inspired KA3 projects were developed by the participants
-> strong connections between participants (planning follow-up projects together)
-> multiplication effect of good practice / lessons learned from the Structured Dialogue process in Austria

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I jumped in as a trainer on short-notice, with the task to focus on harvesting outcomes. I was then an equal part of the trainer's team (we were three in total), facilitated roughly 25% of the activities and contributed to the trainer's meetings, the implementation and adaptions of the programme.

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