Training Course: "YOCOMO - be(come) civically engaged" in Germany

Training Course: "YOCOMO - be(come) civically engaged"
23-28 April 2023 | Dresden, Germany

This course will support sharing, learning and working with civic engagement stories, and by using the city of Dresden as a learning environment. More specifically, the course will look at:

“Being civically engaged” competence area and the range of what being civically engaged in youth work means;
The ways in which youth work context can stimulate the development of youth workers’ civic engagement competence and their practice;
The different dimensions (values, attitudes, knowledge, skills, behaviours) of be(coming) civically engaged;
Different pathways that youth workers can take to comprehend their (youth work) system from a civic engagement perspective;
The areas of tension of the Being Civically engaged competence area (e.g. power relations, critical thinking, neutrality);
The ways to address challenges when being civically engaged and in youth work practice supporting young people to be civically engaged? (with a special focus on the support that might be needed)