19-26/4/2015- Training Course: IMPROVe your Life (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

IMPROVe your Life is a training course dedicated to youth workers, striving to enhance the contribution of educational methods they use, for the professional and personal development of young people.

But wait... what is IMPROV and how do we use it?

Improv, or improvisational theatre is a form of theatre that doesn`t use any prepared text or scenography. Everything is built spontaneously on the stage, based on the suggestions from the audience. It requires good skills of listening, attention, and team work and challenges the performer to become a better version of himself. It is both useful and entertaining. That`s why we chose to transform it into an educational method and use it as a tool for youth development.

So, the aim of our project is to train and empower youth workers to use improvisational theatre as an innovative tool to increase young people’s employment chances.

To achieve this, we have set the following objectives:

 To support the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes in improvisational theatre method.
 To increase the capacity of youth workers to innovate and improve their working methods with principles and tools from improvisational theatre.
 To develop the capacity of participants to offer improvisational theatre activities and programs that better respond to the needs of youth in their countries.
 Strengthen the cooperation and international exchange of good practices in the field of youth work.

The project “IMPROVe your life” is a training course which will bring together 21 youth workers from 7 countries: Romania (3), Latvia (3), Estonia (3), Poland (3), Italy (3), Norway (3), Greece (3).

Πηγή: http: www.salto-youth.net