TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Biljana Vasilevska Trajkoska
The aim of study session was to develop youth workers’ competences for providing one-on-one coaching to young people who are most at risk of becoming NEETs in order to reduce inequalities among young people and to ensure they make a successful move from education to employment.
Adhered to non-formal learning principles and based on participatory methods, the programme of the study session was designed to contribute to the realisation of the main aim of the study session covering the following themes:
1. Getting to know the context
• Social rights of young people and their relation to autonomy and transition to autonomy;
• Understanding youth employment situation in Europe;
• Who are the young people at risk of becoming NEETs and what challenges they face?
2. Coaching as tool for supporting the personal and professional development of young people at risk of becoming NEETs:
• What is coaching;
• Coaching competences (skills, knowledge, attitudes) and roles;
• The importance/benefits of coaching
3. The coaching process:
• Connecting with the coachee (the young people at risk of becoming NEETs);
• Assessing the needs and competences of the coachee (the young people at risk of becoming NEETs);
• Setting goals together with the coachee and how to motive the coachee in achieving the set goals;
• Creating networks and support systems;
• Staying in touch with your coachee;
4. Online coaching: Using digital/innovative networking via online channels;
5. Coaching limits and your responsibilities;
6. Good VS bad feedback;
7. Making coaching more accessible to young people.
The study session gathered 42 participants including youth and social workers, family therapists, coaches, psychologists and other professionals working with young people at risk of becoming NEET as well as students pursuing degrees in relevant fields, coming from 18 Council of Europe’s member states.
The team included 4 trainers coming form 4 CoE member States and an external advisor assigned by the CoE YD
Simulations of coaching process on created NEET profiles by participants, The News, Drama and theater, role plays, fishbowl, videos ....
Learning outcomes
1. Getting to know the context
• Social rights of young people and their relation to autonomy and transition to autonomy;
• Understanding youth employment situation in Europe;
• Who are the young people at risk of becoming NEETs and what challenges they face?
2. Coaching as tool for supporting the personal and professional development of young people at risk of becoming NEETs:
• What is coaching;
• Coaching competences (skills, knowledge, attitudes) and roles;
• The importance/benefits of coaching
3. The coaching process:
• Connecting with the coachee (the young people at risk of becoming NEETs);
• Assessing the needs and competences of the coachee (the young people at risk of becoming NEETs);
• Setting goals together with the coachee and how to motive the coachee in achieving the set goals;
• Creating networks and support systems;
• Staying in touch with your coachee;
4. Online coaching: Using digital/innovative networking via online channels;
5. Coaching limits and your responsibilities;
6. Good VS bad feedback;
7. Making coaching more accessible to young people.
Course director
→ Planning, organizing and implementing the activity
→ Dealing with EYC's administration
→ Work in collaboration with the educational advisor of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe