Self-awareness through active citizenship

When: 30/10–6/11/2024 (including travel dates — 6 days of training and 2 days of travel)

Deadline for application: 20th of September, 00.00 CET

What you need to know :

Our project aims to empower 28 change-makers by helping them understand themselves better and become active citizens in their communities. Through workshops on emotional intelligence, non-violent communication, conflict resolution, and project planning, we want to equip them with the skills they need to engage in peace-building activities.

Our goal is not only to deepen their understanding of themselves and their communities but also to provide them with the tools to initiate and sustain peaceful initiatives.

This project is a collaboration between the Iasmos Collective Project and the informal network of young peacebuilders known as the Youth Peace Ambassadors Network (YPAN).

At YPAN and Iasmos, we prioritize sustainability and believe in peace on multiple levels — personal, social, and environmental. Therefore, this project also aims to promote sustainability and environmental peace alongside its primary objectives.

This is why we created this project!

OBJECTIVES

The specific objectives are:

• To build participants' understanding and embodiment of the definitions and equip them with tools of self-awareness through Active citizenship and vice versa.
• To provide tools for understanding today’s complex world and how its concepts are connected, empowering us to participate actively in our communities.
• To give a chance to create a space and a hub for healthy networking and sustainable cooperation to stay connected after the TC is over.
• To develop at least 6 follow-up workshops by participants with the support of the team to act as multipliers in their local
• communities.
• To enable people to be architects of their own lives, support their personal development and growth to autonomy, build their resilience and equip them with life skills to cope with a changing world.
• To encourage and equip young people with the necessary resources to become active citizens, agents of solidarity, and positive change inspired by EU values and a European identity and influence EU youth policy-making.

PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS 

We are looking for participants who are:

• Above 18 years
• living in one of these 7 countries: Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain & Portugal.
• Able to communicate in English (we use this language)
• active or interested in the field of conflict transformation, mindfulness, non-violent communication (NVC), and youth work in the community.
• open to explore the relationship between themselves and the community within a group setting, and ready to delve into their emotions and inner world.
• willing to be committed to participating in the full training course of 6 days + a 1-hour online ‘meet and greet’ session prior to the training + to organize a local workshop that will be a follow-up.

& with some other characteristics (these are not mandatory, but nice to have):

• Youth workers or youth leaders that work with youth in their communities
• People active as trainers or educators in non–formal education, especially within youth organizations and associations
• Young people who believe in peaceful changes in their communities are passionate about issues facing their community
• People with experience or interest in conflict resolution or transformation, mindfulness, NVC, peacebuilding, or youth work

HOW WE WORK

The training course will be based on the principles of non-formal education.

We will implement the basic elements of non-formal education, such as the education being voluntary, organized with educational objectives, participatory and learner-centered, about learning life skills and preparing for active citizenship, based on involving both individual and group learning with a collective approach, holistic and process-oriented, as well as based on experience and action (we will plan the follow-up activities) and starts from the needs of the participants.

Basically is a peer-to-peer (you teach & learn from others) approach 

 COSTS, WHAT IS THAT? 

We believe in one thing, the power of peace education and the right for all to have an opportunity. That is why, thanks to the ERASMUS+ scheme, we are able to provide this training for you for FREE.

This includes — food, accommodation, training sessions, mentoring, and a specific amount for your travel depending on your country of origin indicated below.

We will be able to reimburse you for your travel to Greece with a limit of:

Greece — 23 euros ; Cyprus — 180 euros ; Germany, Italy, Poland — 275 euros ; Portugal — 530 euros ; Spain — 360 euros.

CONTACT -  iasmoscollective@ gmail.com

The project is financed by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme.