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Moltóir 2: Using Movement Practices to Enhance Wellbeing in Young People

2024-2-IE01-KA153-YOU-0002583332024Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: IE|EL|PL|AZ|ES|TR · Grant: €67,983
Creativity, arts and culturePhysical and mental health, well-beingNew learning and teaching methods and approaches

Objectives

This training course brought together 50 cultural youth workers from Ireland, Azerbaijan, Spain, Greece, Turkey, and Poland. We wanted to train our staff and volunteers in using movement techniques to improve the well-being of the young people with whom we work. Our network of partners came together to share various methodologies that they found useful in their work. Moltoir 2 aimed to: (1) train cultural youth workers from 7 organisations in movement methodologies that they could use with groups of young people in their own organisations; (2) show how this type of youth work, when done well, can improve the wellbeing of young people; (3) bring together Cultural Youth Workers, from mainly youth theatre organisations, who can exchange practice, ideas, cultural differences, and approaches to performance work with young people; (4) lay the foundations for establishing a strong network or consortium that can explore other opportunities in the Erasmus+, Creative Europe, and European Solidarity programmes. Moltóir is the Irish word for ‘mover’. It has the double meaning, as in English, of moving a body but also of being an activist or persuader of others, being part of a social or political ‘movement’. It also conveys the sense of emotional weight someone who is ‘moved’ emotionally to react or act. Movement is the first language of communication, and we felt it would come reasonably easily to the youth workers once they were being trained by experienced and capable practitioners. The training was shared among the partners. Moltóir 2 was the second edition of a successful training course that we ran in 2023. In this edition, we invited new cultural youth workers to train them in movement techniques. Generally, cultural youth worker means artists working with young people using a youth work ethos. Moltóir 2 specifically trained participants in a selection of movement practices that could be used by creative facilitators in a youth work setting to enhance and support the well-being of young people. The objectives of the course were that: - Participants would be shown ways to use various movement techniques to work positively with with young people. - Participants would be engaged in reflective activities – analyzing and processing their experiences and learning on a daily basis. - They would also discover more about different cultures though exchange with other participants.. - Participants would enhance and share their own transversal skills, especially those skills developed by collaborative group work and creative, aesthetic engagement. Participants on this training course would also explore Erasmus+, ESC and other union funding structures with a view to enhancing the strength of the partnership and building its capacity to be effective at an international level.

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