Training course “Facilitation Beyond Frontiers”

The training project is focusing on creating the base of facilitation skills needed for youth leaders in youth exchanges, with the special consideration of different learning processes taking place in a youth exchange, from preparation of individual groups, through facilitation of the course of a youth exchange, all the way to wrapping up overall learning experience and setting foundations for further personal development of young people. The special emphasis is being put on the continuous facilitation approach to intercultural learning, active involvement of youngsters at every step of the way and developing creative and original methods throughout.

The training project has three integrated learning phases:
1. Preparation for the course through distance e-learning;
2. 9 day long Residential training course taking place in Kovacica, Serbia;
3. Follow-up to the course through distance e-learning.

Methodology used in all its phases is based on active participation and experiential non-formal education methods, framed by the core intercultural learning process.

“Facilitation Beyond Frontiers” is scheduled to take place in autumn of 2009, with 24 young people coming from 10 different countries – Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Portugal and Serbia.

The target group of the TC are youth workers and youth leaders that:
– are dedicated to working with young people in their everyday reality;
– already have some previous experience being leaders in youth exchanges, but haven’t gone through any of the official trainings on that topic so far;
– are interested in developing their facilitation skills in a training course that will use non-formal education methodologies;
– have a desire to apply their facilitation skills in future youth exchange projects, as well as other projects under the umbrella of the Youth in Action Programme;
– are supported by their respective organisations in applying their facilitation skills in the future projects.
– are ready and able to attend for the full duration of the course which includes distance learning period BEFORE and AFTER the training!!! The on line Platform will start on 1st of October, ending month after the training.
– are able to express themselves in English.