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Make Your Clothes - from Clothes through Disclosure to Inclusion

2022-1-HU01-KA153-YOU-0000716492022Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: HU|SI|SE|PL|BY|LV|LT · Grant: €15,120
Environment and climate changeEmployabilityQuality and innovation of youth work

Objectives

The aim of the project was to train European youth workers how to facilitate non-formal learning process in circumstances of intensive flow of new information. To create the circumstances of learning new practical skills a unique opportunity of making self-sufficient clothing were used. In these circumstances youth workers, besides acquiring the basic knowledge and hard skill of making clothes, were trained in the area of such soft skills as emphatic communication, motivational interviewing, giving supportive and corrective feedbacks, awaking awareness, regulating emotions, creating an environment for reflection and self-expression, as well as exploring beyond current thinking and paradigms. Particularly, the project increased opportunities for the professional development of youth workers and youth leaders and improved their competences regarding soft skills. The process of learning in this project consisted of three areas: - CLOTHES as an essential part of cultural and personal identity allowed participants to contemplate on different influences which individuals experience in their life (needs, wishes, motive, ecology, sustainability, self-expression, politics, art, etc). - DISCLOSURE of inner processes during learning allowed participants to reflect on methods of obtaining skills, sharing experiences, teaching, supporting and facilitating learning processes, team work, etc. - INCLUSION through acceptance of individual diversities was the main idea of the project to which all the developed soft skills were leading. Empowering youth workers has been a common goal for the participating organizations. The purposes of the application have been: - education and practice-oriented training for European youth available via youth workers in their organizations - preservation of European cultural heritage (folk clothing traditions) - providing practice-oriented training on self-sustaining clothing and using soft-skills in facilitating non-formal learning for the European youth workers involved in the project - expanding the career models of young Europeans, which has become available to them through the training of their youth workers, thus providing the opportunity of reducing youth unemployment.

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