Interfaith Dialogue

Open for youth workers/ youth leaders who wish to exchange and learn on how to engage young people in interfaith dialogue (especially through YiA projects) and how to work with young people with different cultural backgrounds. Objectives: 1) to reflect and discuss on the need for interfaith dialogue/ cross communities work in youth work and its challenges 2) to exchange best practices through project examples on how to engage young people in interfaith dialogue (in the form of discussion, exchange and not debate on opinion) 3) to consider the challenging role of youth workers with diverse groups of young people in a changing world 4) to equip participants to implement future YiA projects dealing with interfaith dialogue or different backgrounds youngsters taking into account the current situation across Europe. Format: 4 full days of programme Day 1: Intro, team building, looking at concepts Day 2: challenges for youth work Day 3: good practices, participants' projects & project visit Day 4: YiA possibilities, partnerships, future projects, resources, evaluation Please note, this course is aimed at exploring the need for interfaith dialogue, and exchanging best practices of how to engage young people in interfaith dialogue activities. Therefore, this course will not provide participants with the opportunity to fully debate the differences between religions and religious practices, faiths, secularism, atheism, etc.