The project is a follow up to the project Religion≠Hate youth exchange on the relationship between religion and LGBTI rights. During the implementation of this project we realised how difficult it is to find youth workers who can support struggling LGBTI youth. Religion can play a negative role in the lives of LGBTI youth in three ways: 1. some LGBTI youth are also religious and they struggle to make peace between their faith and their sexuality/gender identity 2. some LGBTI youth have religious parents and family, which put strains on their relationships with those closest to them 3. because of mostly negative treatment LGBTI youth are getting from some religious organisations, some LGBTI youth have developed deeply anti-religious sentiment which leads to them discriminating against people of faith, including LGBTI youth of faith. There is a widespread prejudice in many societies that religion and equal rights of LGBTI people do not go together - many religious people believe their religion is incompatible with homosexuality and transgender people, but also many people from the LGBTI and human rights movement have also accepted this prejudice and believe that religion is ultimately an enemy of the human rights movement. Because of this prejudice the issue of LGBTI people within the religious organisations and their connection with God was ignored within religions and within LGBTI movement. This training course aims to empower a new generation of youth workers to support the particular needs of LGBTI youth. Objectives 1) develop competencies of youth workers to support LGBTI youth, especially LGBTI youth of faith, and to promote inclusion using religious arguments Apart from a number of Northern European Protestant churches, most religions see homosexuality and/or transgender as unnatural and sinful behaviour. This feeling of rejection from their religion and their God can have a negative impact on psychological and emotional well-being of LGBTI youth of faith. Perhaps surprisingly, but there is no direct condemnation of monogamous and loving same-sex relationship in the Bible or Quran (the verses that condemn "sodomites" can be read as condemning sexual exploitation of boys and slaves by older men and of excess sexual lust). Also, both the Judeo-Christian and Muslim traditions (both Jesus and Mohammed talk about them directly) do describe a group which we would nowadays call trans* people and it is not a story of outcasts from God who need to be reformed. 2) improved inter-religious dialogue In many countries there is a bitter argument in the society between the conservative religious institutions and secular human rights movement, with same-sex marriage and legal recognition of third gender as the main battlegrounds. In this TC the participants will learn about the similarities of stories related to LGBTI issues in Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. (It seem likely that we will have participants in the TC from these three religious traditions, but if not we will incorporate Eastern and other religions into this TC). By better understanding common roots of these three religions the participants will be empowered to participate in constructive, and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions. Furthermore, the participants will learn how human rights can be put into religious framework. In this way, they will learn to build bridges between religious and non-believing secular communities. In this TC the participants will learn how to engage in a dialogue instead of a debate with people with different points of view including forming a dialogue with conservative religious leaders on the need of them being more inclusive towards LGBTI people of faith in their religious communities.