Building Strong Communities

ABOUT THE TRAINING COURSE

The aim of this training course is to explore how to build strong and purposeful communities, focusing on compassion. It is designed for youth workers, leading communities, and those interested in how to build or strengthen the communities they are part of, wanting to bring their communities to a new level of functioning.

PARTICIPANTS WILL

• Learn about the need of building strong(er) communities;
• Learn about the role of Compassion in communities and how to practice it;
• Learn about Organizational Culture and the role and skills of Community Builder;
• Learn how to use Community Map for designing Community Culture;
• Learn about the tools of Community Builder and how to use them;
• Learn how to use the power of rituals for building strong communities;
• Create a plan of how to use and disseminate the knowledge in their own communities.

THE TRAINERS

Sonja Čandek, from Slovenia, is social pedagogue, passionate trainer with focus on Learning to Learn, Creativity and processes “From idea to realisation”. Nowadays she is an active ambassador of Compassion. She loves teamwork, developing ideas into projects and contributing towards a better life. She loves multicultural and creative environments and is always full of pedagogical optimism.

Uršula Butkovič, from Slovenia, is an experienced consultant, coach and mentor. Her professional focus is on finding dormant development opportunities in teams, organisations and individuals and supporting them on the path to their activation. She focuses on experimenting with different approaches, methods and concepts to find the best solutions to the pressing challenges she helps teams to solve. She believes in people and humanity and our ability to always find a way forward.