Simplifier - Training for Facilitators

The project was designed to be able to bring value to the participants and to ensure they have support to develop themselves as facilitators, having special focus on practice, learning by doing it. The main objectives are: - Develop essential facilitation skills like planning, debriefing, group dynamics, session design, feedback; - Train and improve youth facilitators’ competences through self-reflection and feedback from peers and trainers; - Develop or improve personal facilitation style; - Practice, practice, practice, what you know, what you learned and what you want to learn; (after first TC and in the seminar in Portugal) - To further develop teamwork competencies and skills, through the practice of decision-making, active communication and feedback - To exchange good practices among the team and participants - To raise awareness of group dynamics and the different roles within groups - To raise awareness of the intercultural dimension of international youth activities and international teamwork - Create a guidebook with tools, methods and main topics needed to design, implement and evaluate activities: a guidebook for facilitators. In the first training course, in France (22 to 30 of June), the participants will learn methods and techniques to be able to work as facilitators. The flow of the training is starting with the definition of facilitation and what its use, and grows to the things that are needed in a facilitator: To plan a session, design and create, use creativity, lead a group, fast thinking, evaluate and debrief and finnaly practice, having the feedback of other participants and trainers on how it went, what to improve and what to maintain. After the first TC, the participants can practice and develop their facilitator skills at local level with the support of their organization. They will organize short workshops to be able to gain experience and find difficulties and success methods. They can use what they designed and planned during the TC or create new ones. This will be important for the 2nd seminar. We will all meet again from 12 to 18 of November in Beja, Portugal, to share experiences, best practices, obstacles and to improve the facilitation skills. Again it will be a lot of time to practice, practice, practice with the feedback of other participants and from the trainers. In this seminar we will also work on creating and developing a handbook guide for facilitators, to help their work. This will be a practical tool that the participants will work on it and receive to support them on follow up. For the success of this project it’s important that the participants are the same for all activities. In attach you have a file with the program for both activities.