TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Margaux Richet
This training course, "Youth participation outside the ballot box", will explore
the role and possibilities of young Europeans when it comes to being active,
democratic citizens outside the ballot box. It will be done, by inviting
organizations from 8 different countries from both Western and Eastern
Europe. Through a training course the participants will be encouraged to
investigate, explore, reflect and share their experiences, thoughts and tools of
their daily work with young people in civil society. The participants will be
challenged into thinking in innovative, creative and alternative ways of
understanding activism, democracy, youth and the possibilities of both their.
local and national democratic realities
The participants are coming from organizations from
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia.
The team was composed of:
-for the coordination: Carmen Medina, Gunnar Eriksen Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Esben and Mad from SILMBA (Denmark)
- for the trainers: Bojana Ilic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Margaux Richet (France/Germany)
Non-formal education methods were used such as energizers, language games, team games, body-oriented sessions, small groups work...
Some ideas for other youth-exchange projects using for instance Art were discussed at the end of the TC.
A poetical and philosophical report of the project was made by Mad, one of the participant and coordinator of the project:
https://myheartflowss.wordpress.com/
It is a different and sensible way to get an impression of the work and feelings that happened during the TC.
As a full-time trainer I was responsible with my co-trainer Bojana Ilic to implement the activities of the TC.