TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Mafalda Morganti
The course wanted to make trainers, facilitators and youth workers aware of the many and various uses of the non formal educational method of Storytelling, showing them how it can be used to work with young people, helping them to develop a big number of important abilities and competences in the professional and personal sphere.
The main objectives of this traning course were:
• To explore the concept of "transformational storytelling", how to use storytelling as tool for
innovation to change and self-development;
• To discover and understand the employability competences that are developed through
storytelling;
• To create an intercultural network of youth workers and organizations that use the method of
storytelling in developing employability skills;
• To explore the concept of "transformational storytelling", how to use storytelling as tool for
innovation to change and self-development;
• Target Group:
Youth workers, trainers, youth leaders
• Countries involved:
Italy, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, Spain, Romania, Portugal, Ireland, United Kingdom and Hungary.
• Language of the training:
English
• The team of trainers:
Mafalda Morganti (Italy), Carmine Rodi Falanga (Italy) and Michele di Paola (Italy).
During the course we aimed to show the value of using storytelling in training in an experiential way
and provided practical applications, exercises, and techniques to harness our innate ability to tell
and receive information through stories. We approached storytelling in many of its ways and forms, with a particular focus on the elements of Hero's Journey model, digital storytelling and gaming, theatre and role-playing and practises of personal storytelling.
Stories are the foundation for how we communicate. They enable us to make a personal connection to content on a deeper and richer level, more than a mere list of facts can. And how we narrate and read facts determines how we will remember and integrate them. That’s what learning is. When we approach “learning” in a more traditionally structured way, it can be a struggle for people, but stories enable us to learn without feeling like we are learning, without straining to get it right.
Participants of the training gave very positive feedback already at the end of course, then again in the evaluation questionnaires and in their Youthpass certificates.
I've designed the training course and, together with my two above mentioned colleagues, developed the methods used for the training.
My role was to facilitate the course (in a team of four) and to coordinate all the activities which took part in it.