• TOPIC: Art of Being Creative
  • DATES: 15 – 23 October 2023
  • VENUE: Gonio, Georgia

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT:

“ABC” is a uniquely designed training aimed at improving social inclusion and bringing change to local communities through the development of creativity fluency, social competences in theatre and improvisation, collaboration and creation of new projects. The first step for a change, improvement or innovation is always creativity, creative ideas and thoughts. We become creative when we are in need, and right now European society is in need of inclusive activities and methods for working with different groups of people due to the drastic changes in demographics, increased migration and population transition. Therefore, our goal is to define and share the peculiarities of youth work in the participating countries, to design follow-up local projects aimed at improving social inclusion and community development through combination of NFE activities that will involve creative thinking tools and problem-solving methods along with improvisation theatre and games.

For 7 days, 39 youth workers will deeply dive into the topic, playing, discovering and assimilating our working methods suitable for small and large groups. The goal of this activity is to boost your creativity, develop your competences and skills of creative thinking and problem-solving, to equip you with relevant methods and tools in order to create and design follow-up local projects aimed at improving social inclusion and community development in your countries. The learning by doing approach ensures many interactive activities, such as role-plays, simulations, improvisation theatre techniques and sharing best practices. We will have long debrief sessions on all the elements of each method, ensuring a detailed understanding for all participants.

PARTISPANTS PROFILE: 

  • 18+ years old youth/social workers/leaders/NGO key staff;
  • responsible, motivated and open to the new experience and learning opportunities;
  • open-minded and flexible towards new knowledge, viewpoints and perspectives; with knowledge and experience in working with NFL programs (desirable, but not mandatory);
  • ready to contribute to the project implementation: share relevant knowledge and experience, organize a workshop, lead a session, etc.;
  • ready to implement the project results in further work;
  • with good command of English.

Keep in mind that the selection will be done strictly based on applications. The priority in the selection will be given to the participants with a relevant matching profile, constructive detailed application, as well as for participants with fewer opportunities. During the first day of the training you will sign the learning agreement, stating your active involvement in all the project activities during the implementation stage and active contribution during the dissemination and follow-up stages

HOW TO APPLY?
Please fill in the application form: https://bit.ly/44HCaht

The deadline to apply is July 10th.