YOUNG SOUL

“Young Soul” (YS) is a TC-seminar combining the topics of dialogue of generations and life-long learning among the youth workers to be organized in Malta 24-30 March 2023 (23 March – arrival date, 31 March – departure date), bringing together 35 participants from 11 programme countries Malta, Latvia, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Norway, Belgium, Serbia. The seminar will be done in a form of an exchange of experiences between experienced youth workers and the relative beginners in the field, using discussions, story-telling, case-studies, workshops, method exchanges, idea brainstorms and other non-formal education methods for inspiring and learning among the generations for a more balanced - experienced, professional and modern work with young people.

So, the objectives are:

• to appreciate and support the invisible, but existing target group, that can be considered a group with fewer opportunities and definitely with special needs – more experienced youth workers, usually staying in their customary conditions in home realities;
• to create proper supportive conditions, to motivate this target group to come out from its comfort zone (including travelling, speaking in English, communicating with younger colleagues);
• to learn from the experience and particular case-studies from this target group;
• to find out the secret of their youth elixir and the secret of long successful careers;
• to let the younger and tuned youth workers to inspire, motivate, update others with fresh ideas, new tools (including the digital ones), modern methods;
• to promote non-formal education, stimulate new creative techniques and life-long learning;
• to open the stage for a dialogue of generations, idea brainstorming, creation of new methods together;
• to encourage participants to continue to be active balanced youth workers, also planning particular follow up activities for young people and future cooperation within youth work field.

Expected participants profile: from each country we expect a mix of really young youth workers and those who are really experienced, so in age both 18-25 and those over 30, 40, 50, 60.