The aim of this project is to bring together those involved in youth work, non-formal and informal education from European and Mediterranean countries to explore and develop new tools, which they will then use with their groups of young people. During the first phase of the project, participants will attend a training course to acquire new skills and build up new competencies through techniques used in performing arts, while at the same time, they exchange youth work methods, tools and good practices.
The training course will give the necessary tools to the trainees to enable them to facilitate workshops and activities with young people by utilising performing arts and together learn, explore, and enhance key skills, such as communication, assertiveness, conflict resolution, negotiation, change, creativity, decision making, leadership, self-esteem and other soft skills.
By the end of the training course, the participants will have mastered alternative tools and methods which they will use in their work in order to support and engage young people to critically and intuitively analyse life situations and their own responses and then take action and be the protagonist in their own life. These tools will help the trainees raise issues like unemployment and employability, peace and conflict resolution, migration, racism and xenophobia, substance abuse, sexual abuse, AIDS/HIV, bullying, violence, teenage pregnancies, and other social issues.
Skills
Participants will learn skills used in performing arts, including (but not exclusively to):
- improvisation;
- drama;
- animation;
- story telling;
- script writing;
- face and body painting;
- movement.
Although the training course will present some theoretical elements, it will be mostly hands-on and participant-centred, with a great emphasis on the practical aspects of youth work.