We had four objectives: 1) To explore how we transmit values through activities and games, and use a renewed awareness of this to tailor new activities aimed at youth workers in local groups that can be easily disseminated across the national organisation. 2) To use an intercultural setting to inspire new working practices, new activities that can be shared organisation-wide to have a noticeable shift in the volunteers regular weekly youth gatherings. 3) Facilitate an informal and accessible learning environment where personal and professional development bring the volunteer local youth workers closer to excellence in contemporary youth work. 4) To produce shareable resources that increase the quality of youth work at the local level in national youth organisations by carrying the aims, missions, goals or objectives of the organisation. Youth organisations often have lofty and well meaning stated aims at a national level, however that focus is frequently diluted at local levels where the youth workers concentrate on creating a fun program playing games with children and young people that cannot be directly linked to the aim of the organisation. National youth organisations in FDF’s European networks have also recognised this mismatch and wanted to create a training course where local youth workers from various comparative youth organisations could explore ways to translate these fluffy goals to activities that are engaging and enjoyable for youth, while also having the educational value that reflects the organisation. At the course the diversity of working practices, organisational cultures and experiences had the opportunity to inspire high quality outcomes and contribute to the informal learning opportunities for personal and professional development. We wanted to use this collection of different cultures and organisations to reflect on how we all use playing and games to transmit values to children and young people and inspire each other. Together we increase the competences of the youth workers through this intercultural experience where we have taken an existential look at the activities we do with children and young people, the values they transmit and how we can improve the quality of voluntary youth work.