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Training Course
10-18 September 2024 | Carei, Romania
In recent years, numerous studies have highlighted an increase in mental health challenges among young people due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other societal factors (McCharty, 2019; Hawes et al., 2021; Valma et al., 2021). Public speaking has also been identified as one of the most common fears, with over 60% of young people reporting anxiety about it and over 80% expressing a desire to study it in school or university (Marinho et al., 2017).
Feedback from our partner organizations confirms that both youth workers and young people struggle with public speaking anxiety. Over 60% of youth workers experience anxiety and fear of expressing themselves. As public speaking is a crucial skill for youth workers who facilitate workshops, our project aims to support these individuals in improving their public speaking abilities and confidence, ultimately increasing their resilience.
Our project focuses on 34 youth workers, enhancing their public speaking skills and confidence through a training course in Carei from September 10-18, 2024. The indirect beneficiaries will be the young people these youth workers engage with in their communities. The project will emphasize discovering tools and best practices related to public speaking, empowering youth workers to increase their self-esteem and communication skills.
The objectives to achieve this goal include:
- Increasing knowledge about resilience and anxiety among the 34 youth workers during the training course.
- Enhancing practical public speaking skills through hands-on activities.
- Producing three digital materials (a psycho-education booklet, a storytelling guide, and a public speaking guide).
- Creating at least one digital educational output (TikTok or YouTube channel) for dissemination in local communities.
- Strengthening collaboration between the eight partner NGOs.
- Developing two future joint project outlines addressing resilience and public speaking.
The program activities will cater to the participating youth workers' needs using integrative methods such as team building, energizers, presentations, role-plays, experiential workshops, and digital material co-creation workshops. The activities will progress from team-building on the first day to mental health and resilience education on the second day, followed by exercises focusing on public speaking skills and addressing the fear of public speaking. The training will culminate with presentations by the participants and an evaluation and planning session on the last day.
Each day will also include "DigiLAB" activities where participants create digital materials, such as TikTok and YouTube content. The project includes 34 participants (32 youth workers and 2 facilitators) from diverse backgrounds and experiences, with an emphasis on including participants from disadvantaged areas or with fewer opportunities.
The "SpeakUP!" initiative aims to increase resilience among youth workers by enhancing their public speaking skills. Expected impacts include increased self-confidence, better public speaking abilities, enhanced digital skills, greater awareness of mental health, and improved professionalism among youth workers. The project also aims to boost the visibility and quality of partner organizations and promote the dissemination of project results, inspiring further personal and professional development among youth workers.
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This Training Course is
for 4 participants
from Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Türkiye
and recommended for
Youth workers, Youth leaders
Working language(s):
English
ASOCIATIA BEYOND (Youth NGO)
Beyond is a NGO created in 2019, în Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, promoting youth educational initiatives in our city and our region, Transylvania. We deeply recognize the responsibility towards the development of the future, through education. In this regard, we see the importance of connecting youth with different backgrounds together, promoting dialogue between different groups of people and supporting the development of an independent, progressive and upgraded civil society.
Beyond is established in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The organization is made up of a number of experts with the goal to offer support, services and counseling in the area of non-formal education, self-knowledge, psychological education, civil society and democratic institutions development, civil values, for all citizens (especially for young people). We intend to organize events (round tables, debates, seminars and workshops) about activism, experiential education, promoting human rights, development of local, regional, European and international cooperation. Beyond Association especially promotes creativity, innovation, psychological experiential education, self-knowledge, health and well-being, social entrepreneurship and sustainable development of civil society. We intend to facilitate mobility projects in order to study and work abroad, with the aim of enhancing the professional and linguistic skills and promoting greater integration into the global job market.
Another aim of the organization is to facilitate communitarian European integration, and promote the knowledge of European culture among the young people, in particular, and of all the citizens, in general. We want to improve the quality of life of people in our town and the region of Transylvania, as well to foster social inclusion and civic activism. Our goals are also to develop cultural, democratic, social and ecological conscience among youth, to encourage cooperation of young people with different interests and activities, and to increase influence of young people on the local community. We do our best to educate young people in order to give them opportunity to spread everything they have learned and to encourage them to become actively involved in the life of their community. Therefore the core values of our organization are INCLUSION, EMPOWERMENT, and EDUCATION.
We support young people to become creative, active and get further into voluntary work and widen their chances for their future. Our organization provides an informal setting, coaching and mentoring activities where youngsters can develop new abilities and competences, through our associations’ Empowerment hub project. We take responsibility to provide active involvement of youth participants in preparation of the project, its implementation and dissemination of results. We want to develop youngsters' social skills and their interest in civic activism, in their possibility to contribute to their own future as to the future of Europe and the world.
Contact for questions:
Delia
E-Mail:
Phone: +40 755 628 367
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Accommodation and food during the mobility period (10-18 September 2024) will be responsibility of the hosting organization.
TRAVEL GRANT PER PARTICIPANT PER COUNTRY:
ROMANIA - 20 EUR
ITALY - 275 EUR
PORTUGAL - 360 EUR
BULGARIA - 275 EUR
JORDAN - 360 EUR
HUNGARY - 180 EUR
SPAIN - 360 EUR
TURKEY - 275 EUR