“My spade, my word, my tool” Innovative and creative methods for educational youth work on the topics of human rights, racism, social inclusion and promotion of volunteering

The program will be built around experiences of participants of educational work with international and intercultural youth groups. Participants will share experiences and cases on the topics of the project – human rights, combating racism and xenophobia, social inclusion and promotion of volunteering, which will be used as foundation to discuss and further develop educational methods and tools on these topics. Program will include: creativity and innovation in youth work, technical skills as facilitation, introduction and debriefing, group dynamics in training, developing program of non-formal educational activity, tools and methods – using and adapting them in creative way, creating safe learning environment, international communication and specifics of working with international youth groups. Non-formal educational activity in a nutshell: before, during, after. The methodology of the training will be build on non-formal and informal methods, so that trainers will not lecture the participants, but the participants themselves will develop thematic content of the training. Special attention will be paid to practical aspect, participants will get opportunity to apply skills in practice by facilitating sessions and group work during the training, then later analyze and discuss during debriefing and get feedback from trainers and other participants.