Soft Skills, Solid Start

Our project objectives are:
1. Help participants to better understand the concept of soft skills, and benefits of: leadership, teamwork, organisational skills, communication, problem- solving and conflict management.

2. Boost participants implementation skills of non-formal education methods supporting development of soft skills of youth.

3. Develop a more proactive approach to inspire young people to invest their time in developing their soft skills.

This project is mainly addressed to:

- people who work with youth

- volunteers

- mentors

- facilitators

- teachers 

Age limit: over 18, no upper age limit.

The trainers:

Alexandru Arhire start his training career 15 years ago, in an insurance company. After 6 years, he realized that this activity does not fulfil his desire to help society. He quit his job and started working with various NGOs while implementing activities in local high schools in Bucharest.

The topics he addresses are topics that young people do not normally learn in school: how to communicate assertively, soft skills, ecology, personal development, how to get a job, etc. He worked with more than 500 young people and 200 youth workers, in the last years. He was involved in writing more than 20 E + projects and he was a trainer in multiple projects where he used non-formal education to help people develop their skills and improve their attitudes.

Marcelina Woźniak  is the president of Young Wave association and she is a trainer for more than 3 years. She is passionate about non-formal education and she always uses creative methods to help participants to improve their learning. When it comes to her professional background, she has graduated from Applied Linguistics (UW) where she had a chance to explore many aspects of intercultural communication and mediation as well as get to know some tools that can be helpful for learning. She has been teaching English and German online for 6 years so she gained confidence in using soft skills to facilitate the connection with youth.

Participants in this training course will learn how to:
- better understand the following 5 soft skills: teamwork, leadership, communication, problem solving and organisational skills (both from a theoretical and a practical perspective)
- develop their own soft skills during this project 
- have more self-confidence in their ability to make a difference and apply non formal methods that can help young people to gain and boost their soft skills 
- be more open to discuss with disadvantaged groups and to find solution for their problems, while helping them develop personal skills.