YOUTHIFICATION 2017

Already somewhere in the middle of the training course we are interested to hear the story of Rumbi who comes from the  organisation African Youth Arise (AYA) from the United Kingdom. With her we had small interview, asking her about the learning points from the day 4 of YOUTHIFICATION training. The methodology used during this day was focusing more on creative expression and building 3D structures which should visualize better the youth structures the participants are working in. Questions like: where are the young people in your community? How much do they participate in the decision making processes? How to increase their participation? Read here below what Rumbi said to us: "At the morning session I was thinking more thoroughly about our space that we use for our activities, is it appropriate and suitable for the young people we are working with. I think probably is not, it doesn’t have enough facilities to enable us to work with young people on another level and to enc...

The Georgian participants Ekuna and Tamo from the youth association DRONI are sharing their impression about the day 3 of the training course. Today we were focusing only on the youth worker competences and we explored each element separately. Here is the small interview that we did with them together at the end of the day. Ekuna: “Today it was the best day so far and I will explain why: I really like the balance of activities which are focusing on emotions and activities focusing on practical knowledge. At the same time, I like the balance of individual and group work. Highlight of the day would be the exercise “Taking Step forward”, especially the discussion afterwards and how that all was linked with the challenges and the needs that we wrote yesterday. On this way we could actually feel and see the gaps where we are and where we want to be. From the group I heard very meaningful comments today. The group has a ig potential, slowly they are opening up and I feel that the ...

The second day of the training course has arrived together with the new snow. This was one more reason, the participants to get even more inspired and start the morning session with lots of enthusiasm. It was the time to be creative in presenting the organisations where the participants are coming from. Many new opportunities came out from this session and already new potential cooperation has been discussed among the different organisations. Eager to learn more about each other, all of them dived into the next session of exploring the needs and challenges that they are facing during their every-day work as youth workers. Kirsty from UK liked very much the discussion about these challenges, because she could see different approaches from different organisations dealing with same challenges. Many of the representatives from different European countries were focusing a lot on international cooperation when doing the activities and her work consists mostly of local projects and ...

The sessions have finally started! The participants are eager to see what follows in the next 7 days and the trainers are excited to share with them a very valuable piece of knowledge and experience. On this blog we are going to follow the development and the learning process of the participants by asking them to share with the world what was the most important thing which they learned and experienced. Day by day, we will introduce you with different participants. To start, for the first day we have the youngest participant - Mića Mišljenović who is coming from Serbia. We asked him to describe from his own perspective the first day. This is what he said: “When I woke up this morning, I was already fresh and ready to start the new day here in Leysin. First activity that we had today was “Walk & Talk”. We went outside for a nice walk in the nature. On the beginning we would chose some questions written on a piece of paper and while we walk we would find one partner and wo...

Leysin is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in the Aigle district of South-West Switzerland. Located in the Bernese Alps, Leysin is a sunny and snowy alpine resort village at the eastern end of Lake Geneva in proximity to Montreux, Lausanne and Geneva. We will have unique chance to experience the Swiss Alps in winter time, 1450 m above sea level, together with the wonderful nature around. In Leysin the official language is French, but most of the people speak German and English as well. - CLICK HERE > to explore Leysin! Video by: @Leysintourisme / Facebook page Hôtel Central Résidence & Spa

This training course is trying to provide possible solutions to the issues of non-consistent and unstructured work with the young people in the process of their personal and professional development and realizing their potential. The approach that will be explored in details during this training course is the developmental community youth work within youth centers and youth clubs as physical facilities, most of the time supported by the local government and local stakeholders. Especially Subkult would like to develop competences of the youth workers in direction with Erasmus+ projects and how the organizations can achieve greater dissemination of the results coming out from these projects where they send participants, such as training courses, youth exchanges, contact making seminars, partnership building activities etc. How to keep the accumulated knowledge and the people in the youth centers in order to give valuable contribution to the local community? How to encourage these yo...

The idea for this training course was born in Switzerland 2015. In the summer of 2015, Nik and Stev decided to work again together. So that summer they organized a training course for youth trainers called: “ Skills & Tools 2015 ”. It was their first direct cooperation after so many years of knowing each other and it ended up as a very successful story that had potential to be developed in something even bigger. Until they were still in Leysin, the initial brainstorming has begun. It was not that difficult to come up with many important, interesting and relevant topics from the field of youth work. They were concentrating themselves on the basic concepts of youth work, on the needs of the young people and on the core values and beliefs of one youth worker. Out of that shower of ideas, they have created a coherent concept that was about to answer those needs and to address the burning issues which the youth workers in different European countries were faced with. But t...