12-19/10/2016- Training Course "Circus pedagogy as a tool for youth work development" (Finland)

Training Course for youth workers who want to use circus pedagogy as a tool of their work with youngsters. Participants will learn basics of some circus skills such as acrobalance, juggling, balloon modeling… and various methods of preparing a circus workshops.

In a context where it is becoming increasingly hard to reach youngsters, we understand the importance of developing and delivering interesting and stimulating activities to better involve youth worker's target group aged between 13 and 30.

Helped by a staff of professional circus experts, the training course rely on this project to reach our main goal of teaching the participants the basics of various circus skills such as acrobalance, juggling, diabolo, balloon modelling etc. and various methods of preparing and implementing circus workshops, which they will be able to use as a tool in their work with youngsters. At the end of our training course all the participants will be equipped with knowledge on how to prepare and implement circus pedagogy workshop on their own.

Working together the 24 participants and our staff of 4 will also interact with the local population ofering them a final public circus event consisting from a circus workshop and circus performance, to share a moment of happiness, of intercultural reciprocal exchange and, at the same time, send out a clear message about the potentialities of non-formal education to the young citizens of the hosting town.

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