Árpád Bárnai

Current occupation

Trainer, coach and youth worker

Work experience

Roles & responsibilities:
2024 - ongoing: Advisor (international partnerships and youth work) - Academy of Experience.
2024 - ongoing: Trainer in the SNAC Mental Health in Youth work
2012 - ongoing: Trainer at Academy of Experience.
2017 - 2024: Head of Training and Development at the Academy of Experience.
2021 - 2022: trainer in the project "Safe Places - Thriving Children". Embedding Trauma-Informed Practices into Alternative Care Settings” is a two-year project (2020-2022) co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union.
2018 - 2021: mentor at Watchtower Program for Unicef Hungary
2017: Trainer at Bátor Tábor (Serious Fun Foundation)
2016: Group facilitator for the Hungarian Templeton Program. http://templetonprogram.hu/en
2016: Trainer at Solutionsurfers Hungary. http://www.solutionsurfers.hu/english/
2014-2017: Implementation consultant at Practify. Supporting trainers in creating blended learning development processes with the software Practify. Member of the methodological development team.
2006-2011: Educator, program manager in a foster home in Hungary.

Programs:
2025:
- Supporting the mental health of volunteers through mentoring.
- Mental Health Inspirational Event.
- Working with Highly Vulnerable Young People Experience Sharing Workshop.
2024:
- Youth is (Not) Madness Conference: 2 workshops related to trauma-informed care and vicarious traumatization of youth workers. Slovenia
- Essence of Outdoor Experiential Learning Training Course, Hungary
- Supporting Volunteer’s Mental Health through Mentoring, Finland
- Mind Mattes training course about Mental Health. Finland.
- Engage and Empower training course, about working with disadvantaged, highly vulnerable youth and using volunteering as a tool of experiential learning. Hungary. Erasmus + Accreditation TC.
2023:
- Play! Training course for youth workers. GyiÖT, Hungary, Erasmus+ Accreditation course.
- Outdoor Training of Trainers, Academy of Experience. Hungary. Erasmus+ Accreditation course.
- Youth leader training, Latvia, 2023.
- Facilitator: EFFY 23 Erasmus+ Future Focused Youth – Ukraine online symposium.
- Facilitator in the Mental Health in Youth Work SNAC event: Mental Health in Youth Work Inspirational Event, Portugal, Algarve

2022:
- Trauma-informed workshop for youth workers working with Roma youth in Hungary.
- In Between. Training about supporting youth in the transition to adulthood. Spain.
- Working with disadvantaged youth in volunteering projects. Training of youth workers. Youth+ project, Hungary.
- Wilderness First Aid staff training. Outward Bound Romania,
- Supporting organizations in child care in adapting trauma-informed practices. Hungary

2021:
- Staff training - capacity building (wilderness first aid, psychological first aid, trauma-informed care)
- Training of Child Care Workers (resilience and trauma-informed care). Hungary
- Harvesting Seminar. Volunteering as a tool for learning. FUYI project. Brussels. Belgium.
- 6 events of Training of Trainers. Trauma-informed approach. SOS villages. Hungary.
- Trainer and thematic leader of the program Youth+ (KA2)

2020:
- IfYou - inclusive youth leader training for participants of local volunteer groups in Hungary

2019:
- From Us To You goes International KA3: Creating volunteering-based programs for Roma youth in Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Netherlands
- HEART KA2. Experiential education and art therapy as tools to enhance resilience. Organizer: Academy of Experience
- Playinclusive: international training course on game design and play as tools for youth workers.
- Play training vol. 2. - The second stage of the KA2 project Play!

2018:
- Source international seminar on best practices in youth work.
- Play Training vol. 1. - International training course on game design and play as tools for youth workers. Hungary.

2017.
- From Us To You 7. Experiential learning program for Roma Youth. The program used: the volunteering project as a frame for learning life-leading skills, experiential learning, and solutions-focused methods.

2016. Brief Coaching with Children and Adolescents. Solutionsurfers Hungary.

2015.
- In Between: Training course for youth workers, social workers, and others who are working with young people in transition from childhood to adult and who are asking themselves how to support young people in a more holistic way. Austria

2014
Civil Leadership Academy - 10 days - civil leadership course for NGO leaders. Role: trainer, teamcoach, knowledge management expert. Hungary

2013:
- Our Way 2 in 1 - outdoor experiential education training for trainers. Role: Graphic facilitator, and expert in working with disadvantaged youth. Hungary
- INSIDE AND OUT - training course using the tools of experiential learning, outdoor education, and Integrative Expression and Dance Therapy. Role: Co-trainer, outdoor expert. Hungary
- DANCE INTO YOUR LIFE (co-trainer) - Workshop using the tools of experiential learning, outdoor education, and Integrative Expression and Dance Therapy. Role: Co-trainer, outdoor expert.Hungary
- LOCAL ACTION GLOBAL REACTION - youth exchange on sustainability. Role: Facilitator, graphic facilitator, outdoor expert. Hungary
- Tőlünk Nektek 1.and 3. Youth Initiative with the participation of youth living in a foster home, restricted foster home, and Roma settlement. Role: facilitator, teamcoach, graphic facilitator, outdoor expert. Hungary
- EVS ON ARRIVAL and MID-TERM TRAININGS. An experiential learning-based program using tools of solution-focused teamcoaching. Role: Trainer. 2013 - 2016. Hungary

2012
- GROWING BY DOING2. Youth exchange including 2 days voluntary project on a Roma settlement with the local youth participating. Role: Facilitator, outdoor expert.
- COACHING FOR SUCCESS. YiA 4.3 / training course. The basics of coaching. Introduction to
Solution Focused and Narrative coaching. Role: Co-trainer, graphic facilitator.
- BACK TO YOUR NATURE: Youth Exchange on healthy way of life, yoga, Integrated Self-
Expression and Dance Therapy. Role: Assistant, Graphic facilitator.
- BACK TO THE NATURE: YiA 4.3 / training course for youth workers on technical skills of outdoor education. Assistant.
- Volunteer coordinator in the Reserve Atalaya,
February 2012 – April 2012, Peru, Chontachaka
- Street Children Educators. EVS project in a foster home in Peru, Nuevo Chimbote. October 2011-February 2012

2010
- Képesek vagyunk! Suntem capabili! youth exchange for 40 participants living in foster home. Romania. Rola: Assistant