06-14/11/2018 - Training Course | Build Inner Peace - Bring Outer Peace (Βουλγαρία)

Enabling youth workers to acquire competences and methods that prevent the violent radicalization of young people. Main concepts included in the program are Positive psychology, Ecocentric development and Nature based practices for self-discovery.

One of the most pressing challenges to European countries is the fact that a violent radicalization becomes gradually an enormous threat. While thousands of refugees/immigrants flow into Europe, the extremism rises even to the extent of using terrorist violence against fellow citizens.

Young people become an easy victim of these behaviors. Lacking their own critical thinking and inner motivation for being active citizens, they indulge into manipulations and threads starting from violent behaviors in school. School crime, bullying and violence are major concerns and pose an increasing challenge for the European Union authorities.

In this context, there is a need to strengthen the common European values of freedom, tolerance, respect for diversity and non-discrimination. Youth work can have a significant impact in cultivating critical thinking and fundamental values among young people, preventing extremism, violence and radicalization.

In fact, the Youth Work Report 2014 has identified that youth work can result in a range of positive effects for youth which enable them to enhance competences, reinforce their network and social capital, improve particular behaviors and develop positive relationships.

Given this, Build inner peace - bring outer peace aims at enabling youth workers of today to acquire additional competences and methods that prevent the violent radicalization of young people, especially among to the hard to reach young people (minorities, migrants etc.).

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

The training course is built on a flow which combines elements of practice/experience, reflection, theory and application. Thus, we are aiming at:

• To develop understanding about the common reality all over Europe regarding violent radicalization;
• To raise awareness about the reasons for radicalization happens among young people in different parts of society;
• To increase the knowledge/awareness of youth workers regarding what young people need to develop fundamental values;
• To develop skills to prevent violence and radicalization of young people, particularly to the hard to reach youth;
• To equip with innovative methods and tools for working with hard to reach young people;
• To increase the fundamental values on youth workers themselves and motivate them to work for strengthening these values with their target groups;
• To develop follow-up activities targeting hard to reach young people.

Αναλυτικές πληροφορίες - Δηλώσεις συμμετοχής: salto-youth.net