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Closer

2019-1-ES02-KA105-0132382019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: ES|IT|HU|FR|BG|SI|CZ|RO|EL · Grant: €17,412
Inclusion - equityYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

Closer is a training course for people active in youth work with focus on social inclusion. Our purpose is to give participants space to explore, experience and acquire embodied (somatic) approach and tools in order to support their target groups and bring their learnings in their own context. Through our networks, we got connected with the partner organizations and their youthworkers that are working with youngsters with fewer opportunities. Out of our conversations and short questionnaire that we created, we conclude that the challenges that our youthworkers face every day on a wider international perspective resemble one another. They are confronted to reach out to these youngsters, keep them motivated and interested by creating engaging activities. Hand to hand with this, they are missing the space to advance their professional and personal skills in order to be more impacful in their youthwork. Therefore we created the Closer with the aim to empower these youth workers and train them in embodiment as innovative approach to foster social inclusion in the work with their target groups. This we want to reach through our main objectives designed for 27 youth workers from 9 countries: - To become familiar with embodiment and bring variety in their working style; - To create local activities based on the newly acquired approach combined with the ones they already use; - To exchange and develop their methods and toolkit for social inclusion of fewer opportunities youngsters on the local level. We will create different learning processes, founded on the principles of - among others - body awareness and expression, embodied coaching and theatre. The activities will be based on non-formal and experiential learning methodologies with a strong participant centered approach. Embodiment focus on body-based processes that allow deeper self-awareness, expression and reflection beyond the words. We believe that embodied approach and learning tools are inclusive because they stimulate learning for everyone and embrace diversity. They are basic, simple, creative, universally understandable and work for everybody beyond any limitation of age, disability, education level, race. The project will have 3 main phases: • A Preparation - local. • Training Course - international. • The implementation phase and online support - local. In the training course, the youthworkers will have space to exchange their own method, acquire embodied approach and tools, combine it with embodiment and practice it by creating workshops for each other and locals. During the implementation phase participants will be working in the national groups and create activities for their local communities using the elements of embodiment in their own method. All the methods and tools created in this Project will be collected in a form of Practical Manual and Booklet and shared in our networks in order to achieve the long term sustainability of the results.

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