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Communication without boards

2019-1-DE04-KA105-0176622019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DE|AM|HU|MK|RU|GE|UA|EL|MD|LV|FR · Grant: €41,739.12
Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learningCreativity and cultureInternational cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Objectives

There’s no denying the fact that communication is one of the greatest people’s abilities. Broadly speaking, human communication can be defined as a process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages. On the one hand, it is a form of self-expression, discussion, negotiation, problem solving, conflict management and many others. It’s hard to find activities which are prepared or done without any communication. Through communication, we can transfer out thoughts, attitude and message to others. Moreover, it is the interaction between the individual and society. Where there’s a society –there’s communication. On the other hand, ability to communicate is not a universal remedy to the world’s main challenges. Conflict is one of the side effects of inefficient communicational process, and even in modern progressive and advanced society, we face a lot of problems caused by misunderstanding, lack of empathy, lack of respect, non-constructive expression of emotions and feelings, and simply by lack of communication skills. If verbal communication is, something that we have more control of, non-verbal communication is often a “blind spot”, something that we are less to be aware. However, trough it we almost always show our real emotions, thoughts and feelings, even if we want to hide them As a result, the messages we transmit through body language sometimes contradict the oral message, and might cause conflict and misunderstandings. Nevertheless, we truly believe that all the biggest world’s problems could be solved simply by ability to communicate with each other meaningfully. Nowadays our society has been dealing with many challenges and young people as one of the most vulnerable group that often reacts to those challenges not in a constructive way, by violent protests, sympathizing to radical and extremist movements, showing violent behavior towards migrants and marginalized groups. Youth work in and of itself cannot solve all the causes of challenges in the social (e.g. it cannot change the economy). However, youth work and youth projects can influence social exclusion by helping young people to improve their skills, motivation, resilience, behavior, attitudes and view of the world around them. With this LTTC, we’d like to tackle the competence of youth workers to build and to facilitate the meaningful communication process with young people with marginalized background. One of our main aims for this project is to foster non-verbal communication in educational process addressing current challenges such as intercultural dialogue in the work with refugees or preventing radicalization of young people through different forms of art including drawings, sketching, comics, forms of theatre, dance etc. OBJECTIVES of the training course 1.To discuss youth work realities in different countries and different ways of communication with multicultural groups; 2.To share positive and negative practices among participants. 3.To discuss what non-verbal communication is, its features and ways to ensure it in different youth work’s settings. To share positive and negative practices among participants; 4.To discuss benefits and limits of various communication tools 5.To reflect on the effects of non-verbal communication, and how it’s linked with the personal attitudes; 6.To discover different layers of meaningful communication: rational, emotional and kinesthetic and to experience them; 7.To become conscious about personal body language when working in multicultural environment; 8.To explore different forms of art that can serve building a non-verbal communication process in the multicultural groups. This LTTC will consist of two phases: First activity will be focusing on exploring visual tools of communication such as drawing, sketching, doodling, etc., if approved it will take place from 21st to 29th of September, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. We expect our participants to focus on self-expression and communication through art. They will try to convey different emotions by using color and form. The second activity is a continuation of the first part, but it will be dedicated to plastic kinds of art (theatre, dance and bodyworks), so the participants will learn to express themselves using their body and voice, will become aware of personal body language and self-expression. If the training is granted, we expect it to happen from 21st to 29th of November, 2019 in Krasnodar, Russia The objectives are linked with the Erasmus+ in: The training course fosters mutual understanding between young people in different countries within EECA and the EU and both activities are directly linked with: The promotion of European values in accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty on the European Union (The union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities.

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