Welcome to
please talk peacefully
a project page about youth work,
human rights, non-violent communication and solution focused approach
Call for training course
"Talk towards Solutions"
Date? 11-17.October 2020 (including travel days)
Where? Grotniki, Poland
Who? youth workers and educators from Estonia, Slovenia and Poland.
Registration: http://bit.ly/talkpeacefully
BACKROUND:
Change is happening all the time. The simple way to change is to find useful change and amplify it. Europe today goes through major changes (migrations, insecure employment opportunities for young people, aging of the EU population, more young people leaving their homes and reaching independence later in their life) and it is in this complex environment that our young people develop, within which they participate and to which they contribute.
They need skills and awareness to combat increasing apathy, resistance to change, scarce employment opportunities, anxiety, substance misuse, distrust of institutions and weakening relationships. We are increasingly witnessing youth workers, often complaining they work hard to prepare activities, but young people don't engage/respond to offers and invitations and are hard to motivate. We, who support young people need to be clear how we can help them develop skills and awareness for survival, for identifying their strengths and marshalling their resources to improve the quality of their lives. With these ideas in mind we have developed a Training Course titled "Talk towards Solutions" for peace education workers.
OBJECTIVES:
Through this Training Course, we are aiming to reinforce the quality of the supporting services by improving the skills of those professionals working directly with young people with fewer opportunities in peace education. We support different peacebuilding organisations in developing quality services that involve young people with fewer opportunities by educating their peace youth workers of how to coach youngsters with the Solution Focused approach and methodology. This training equips youth workers with simple strategies and techniques to engage with the young people they work with and make change easier. They develop coaching skills and practice conversations, which help young people, experience success, improve their lives and become more confident of themselves. They become more confident of their future and want to achieve more. When individuals (youth workers as well as through them young people with fewer opportunities) learn to cope better and expand their minds, so expands their level of tolerance, acceptance, curiosity and courage. These values are crucial in a new-forming Europe, where we need people with expanded minds to address the issues of migration, refugees, asylum seekers in a way that embraces diversity as a value, instead of a thread. Such people are then able to create a thriving society that respects human life and rights and views it as priorities instead constantly pushing towards making profits.
Methodology of Solution Focused approach is scientifically proven to be a highly effective, efficient, and person-centred method to achieve desired change/goals. Managing good quality conversations is a tool that is more than often reserved for people who can afford it. Youngsters with fewer opportunities have minimal chances to benefit from modern approaches that improve lives, performance and behaviour. Further, youth workers who work with these groups are often too busy to attend a high quality training that would equip them with effective tools. This project fills this gap and offers high quality training in Brief Coaching for change, in order to spread the skills of coaching to the disadvantaged.
FOR WHOM
This training course is meant for youth workers or educators from Slovenia, Poland or Estonia, aged 18+ (no age limit)
REGISTRATION LINK: http://bit.ly/talkpeacefully
*We will have a Skype interview with all of the registered people before we announce the selected ones.
Scroll down to read about venue, transportation etc
Disclaimer: This training course is a part of a long-term strategic project, so during this training course there will be filming happening, which will be combined into an e-course. Read more about it, if you click here.
"Talk towards Solutions"
practicalities
VENUE
The training is going to happen in Grotniki, a bit remote place nearby the city of Łódź - where is located the host of this course KobieTY. Our venue is close enough to the city to spend a day there, at the same time being located remotely, close to a lovely forest.
Łódź is the third largest city in Poland, located in the center part of Poland. There is an airport, railway station and bus station nearby the city center. It is an important academic and cultural center full of different kinds of musical, theatrical, literary, art and movie events.
Łódź has a postindustrial history and it is going through the challenges of a city that is re-establishing its identity. Now, the city is focusing on unwinding its potential by developing inside the creative industry sector.
ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS
You will be staying at Jedliczanka, a guest house located around 20 km from Łódź, in the heart of the Grotniki forest. You will be accommodated in a room with one or two other participants, with a private bathroom. All the rooms are upstairs, on the first or second floor, where you can get only by stairs.
Our main working space is located downstairs. Meals - all vegetarian / vegan, will be prepared by the venue’s cooks and served in the dining room. The house has also a sauna, and who is considering to use it, please, bring an extra towel. Otherwise, there will be towels, bed linen, and hair dryers provided.
Please, note that phone and internet signal is limited inside the building.
There are few small village shops but no ATM nor a pharmacy nearby. Within the program we will visit Łódź where you can find a variety of shops, internet or withdraw cash. You can also buy beforehand whatever you need to feel safe and comfortable during the course and bring it with you to the venue.
TRANSPORTATION
There is an airport in Łódź, however it operates just few flights. The bigger and best connected with Łódź are the airports in Warsaw and Modlin - from there you can take a shuttle bus to Łódź directly. (However, keep in mind that you will need to leave the venue around 5 hours before your flight to reach the Modlin Airport in time )
From anywhere, you can catch a Flixbus or Sindbad, Eurolines or other bus line, as well as a train to arrive in Łódź Fabryczna station or Łódź Kaliska station. Both are more or less in the centre. Book Polish train tickets here:
Using the same website you may check the timetable for connections operated by ŁKA, from Łódź Kaliska to Grotniki. The ticket you can buy inside the train in a ticket machine with a card or with the ticket controller with cash. It should cost 6,50 PLN. From the Grotniki train station it’s only more 20min walk to the venue. http://bit.ly/way_to_the_venue
Try to reach Grotniki around 18:00 so that you can walk safely to the venue before it gets dark (after 19:00). Thanks to the support of Erasmus+, the transportation costs will be funded up to a certain amount.
For Slovenian and Estonian participants 275€
For Polish participants 20€
Otherwise the programme, accommodation and meals are free of charge.
ABOUT THE TRAINER
Dr. A. Biba Rebolj, creative director and owner of Ribalon institute, has plenty of professional experience in mental health and youth trainings. She has been heading coordinator for tutors for students with disabilities at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana from 2007-2014. In 2014 she has reached out to other young people with fewer opportunities. During 2014 – 2016 she has deepened her knowledge and competencies in the UK, doing a specialization at BRIEF (London) in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and has acquired a licence of a Solution Focused Therapist and Coach. Additionally, she had undertaken SFBT trainings in the Netherlands, Hungary, Austria, Belgium and the United States. She has a PhD in the field of higher education and disability and is the only Slovenian nominated to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. Currently living in the UK and Slovenia she is working clinically with clients and delivering international trainings in various topics such as inclusion, tolerance, SF approach, crisis management, conflict resolution, personal development, etc.
In so far, she has delivered more than 100 trainings and workshops in various fields, topics and duration. She is among lead trainers in the pool of trainers of Slovenian institute for the development of youth mobility MOVIT and is so far only certified Solution Focused Coach and Therapist in Slovenia. Her work has been internationally recognized as meaningful and she has been granted two awards (one European and one American) for outstanding Solution Focused Practitioners who show promise in the field which enabled her further extensive training in the field of Solution Focused Coaching in 2014 and 2015. Most of her work is done internationally, she is passionate about passing the knowledge and share good practices with practitioners, therapists, trainers, coaches, educators, social workers and entrepreneurs.
For more info contact:
In Estonia:
diana@mondo.org.ee
In Poland:
skorczynska.marta@gmail.com
In Slovenia:
biba@ribalon.org
Training course
about non-violent comunication
EMPATHY BASED COMMUNICATION
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION WORKERS
currently postponed
Who? youth workers and educators from Estonia, Slovenia and Poland.
Registration: https://bit.ly/talkpeacefully2
BACKGROUND:
The current situation shows us the need for developing Peace Education and Human Rights Education even stronger than before.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis many individuals are struggling with frustration, depression and anxiety. Many families, couples and housemates experience conflicts now that they share many hours closer together than usual. And staying indoors can be potentially dangerous for households with a history of domestic violence. On a global level we see serious limitations in the healthcare systems of many countries and some developments seriously limiting civil liberties.
There is a need for developing awareness of empathy based tools which can help to build meaningful relations supporting youth, as well as to support resolving conflicts between people and at the same time, to deal with internal frustration and foster self-care within those who work with youth to maintain their psychological resources.
The research by sociologists S. Maclennan, K. Muir and S. Thoms (in ‘Sociology for Social Work’) who reviewed important elements of working with youth, shows that “Empathy is vital in understanding the needs and issues facing young people, and it is important to recognise the potential they have.” According to M. B. Rosenberg, the ability to hear the feelings and needs behind different thoughts and opinions and to show the other person that we hear them, which is called EMPATHY, creates space for peaceful relations between people and even the whole community, these skills carry from face-to-face interaction onto digital communication as well. With these ideas in mind we have developed a a 5-day-long Training Course titled "Empathy Based Communication for HRE”.
OBJECTIVES:
The TC “Practices towards empathy” aims to have an impact in the personal development of the
participants, raising the awareness and importance of self-care in the process of supporting others, as well
as in their professional development, introducing tools for constructive and supportive conversations and
conflict interventions.
Specific objectives of this Training Course are:
- introducing communication model and approach developed by Marshall Rosenberg, called the
Nonviolent Communication, exploring its application in youth work and HRE
- raising awareness about participants’ own needs and feelings, the ability to be in contact with them, to
express them in verbal communication, and awareness about the meaning they bring to the
communication process
- equipping participants with an attitude ready to listen to others’ needs and feelings, practicing active
empathy
- equipping participants with open and proactive attitudes towards conflict situations
- practising setting boundaries in conversations and holding them for building a constructive and
supportive relation with people
- practicing the role of a mediator – a third party in a conflict, following the empathic communication
model
- creating space for networking and peer support
ABOUT THE TRAINER
Marta Skorczyńska – non-formal education trainer, certified in applied drama methodology, actor in
Forum Theatre performances. Graduate of Psychology and Social Animation studies at Gdansk
University. Since 2009 supporting international volunteers as a mentor, coordinator and coach. Since
2017 supporting youth workers as a trainer and coordinator of projects, developing their tool box, as well
as supporting their professional and personal satisfaction. She has been active as a trainer and facilitator
in projects related to Peace Eduction and Nonviolent Communicaton, conflict and crisis resolution,
mental and physical well-being, self-care of youth workers, teachers and educators. In her work finding
inspiration from voice and body training methods, educational games, and coaching approach. Working
with the Nonviolent Communication model and promoting empathic communication since 2018. In the
process of training in NVC based mediations.
E-course
Within the whole project, there will be 2 training courses:
1. In Polant about solution focused approach
2. In Slovenia about non-violent communication
During the two training courses, we will make videos and make an e-course covering the topics of human rights, solution focused approach and non-violent communication.
Currently it's still work in progress.
If you wish to receive the finalised e-course,
then leave us your e-mail
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
/ Nelson Mandela