TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Olena Glazkova
The training courses aim to equip the youth workers involved in the project with the relevant competences to implement quality youth work activities and responses to support the successful inclusion of young Ukrainian refugees in Romania.
The objectives of the training courses are:
- To introduce participants to the approaches and quality standards of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe to youth work, youth participation and human rights education;
- To enhance their competences as youth workers by providing learning opportunities for rights and value-based quality youth work with a focus on:
o Human rights and human rights education;
o Participatory youth work;
o Inclusion of young refugees;
o Work and support for young people affected by war.
- To empower youth workers to support the inclusion of young refugees and the solidarity of host communities through youth engagement;
- To strengthen cooperation and team work among the participants.
It was two trainings: English speaking for Romanian youth workers and Ukraininan speaking for group of Ukrainian youth workers from refuggies. All participants were representing different youth centers.
There were 41 participants in total in both training courses: 20 in English speaking group and 21 in Ukrainian speaking group.
With Romanian group there were working three trainers: me and two Romanians with relevant experience.
With Ukrainian group there were working also three trainers from Ukraine. The program was created in cooperation with all 6 trainers and we have few common sessions and reflections.
Methodological approach was based on non-formal education approach of Council of Europe. During learning process the following methods were used:
- work in small groups, couples and triples;
- individual and group reflections;
- simulation;
- debriefings and panel discussions;
- meetings with experts;
- role plays;
- world café;
- brainstorming;
- case studies;
- working with timeline.
Main results of the training courses are:
- creation bridges and connections between Romanian and Ukrainian youth workers, exchange of experiences between youth workers from different parts of Romania and Ukraine (already established some new ideas for cooperation between Romanians and Romanians and Ukrainians);
- participants received motivation, inspiration and self-confidence for planning and implementation human right education at their centers, organizations and using Compass for those activities;
- participants experienced working in another way, learn on practice approaches of Council of Europe;
- training as healing process for some of participants – were created a space for raising voices, opportunity to speak up and discuss ideas (there were visible transformation of some of participants);
- participants started to implement activities from Compass on the regular base in their youth centers.
I was involved in planning program of training in cooperation with colleagues, in developing separate sessions and in leading sessions on a full-time base.
Olena in cooperation with colleagues prepared a consistent and interactive training programme. She made sure that human rights principles were taken into consideration. The training was successfully facilitated by her. She establised a friendly professional connection with co-facilitators and created a safe learning space for participants. Despite the new background and foreign language the facilitation ran smoothly and highly professional.