Dear potential partners,
CEIPES is looking for partner organisations on hosting Project in Palermo, called MEDITATION+ACROYOGA=SELF-KNOWLEDGE & SOCIAL DIALOGUE .
We will apply for a Training Course under Erasmus+ programme – Key Action 1 Youth Mobility.
Please have a look at the description of the activities and if you are interested, let us know until 23th of September 2014.
Summary:
The training course will gather 30 youth workers, youth leaders and trainers from European Union and partner countries. The priority is to develop basic and transversal skills in the field of education and training, the project aims to develop alternative socio-educational approaches to foster more active, innovative and competitive social workers.
The focus of the project is to provide participants with skills, techniques and knowledge of ACROYOGA[1] and DEEP MEDITATION AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE (MPA)[2] as innovative non-formal educational methods to be more effective and confident in their daily work with young people. What’s more, not only to support active youth participation but also to contribute to their personal and professional development as individuals. These innovative tools support, encourage and foster youth motivation as a key factor for their personal development.
The aim:
The main aim of the project is to improve competences of youth workers and trainers working with young people affected by social obstacles, providing them with innovative socio-educational approaches and methods.
The objectives:
– To provide youth workers, youth leaders and trainers with innovative and effective methodologies in youth work to actively involve young people, using the tools of AcroYoga and Deep Meditation and Self-Knowledge (MPA).
– To foster the understanding on how AcroYoga and Meditation (MPA) can be used to promote intercultural dialogue and social inclusion of young people with limited social skills.
– To promote the exchange of methodologies between youth leaders and youth workers in order to develop their professionalism in the field of youth work.
– To create a network for youth workers to support using of MPA and Acroyoga as methodology in the field of Youth Work.
The training course will encourage the intercultural dialogue among people living in peripheral areas.
The aim and objectives of the training will be met by using the fundamentals (tools, activities and practices) of non-formal and informal education to support the team building and cooperative learning like Street theatre methodology, energizers, team-building activities, trust building activities, outdoor activities, discussions, city trips, intercultural activities.
Target Group:
Actively involved youth workers, youth leaders, trainers or other positions in NGOs that require for their daily activities a deeper understanding of various non-formal methods for increasing social acceptance, tolerance, self-trust, communicational and relational skills.
Each partner organization can involve 5 youth workers, youth leaders, trainers or other positions in NGOs in total.
Profile of participants:
- Willing and able to actively participate and get involved in the entire programme
- Able to use English as a working language.
- Willing to share the obtained knowledge with members of his / her organization, friends, family and any other social spaces once he / she gets home.
- No age limits
Project’s date: 1-10 May 2015 (arrival and departure dates included)
Project’s place: Sicily, Italy
Project’s language: English
Application deadline: 23th September 2014
Costs covered by the Organizers: unit costs of travel costs, 100% food and accommodation.
Please fill and send us the attached partner identification form.
If you have any question, please, contact EMANUELA FIRETTO internship@ceipes.org
We will apply next deadline, 1st October 2014
Annex:
CEIPES is a non – profit organization active in the field of social and human development that works through education for a world of peace and equality in order to grant the fulfillment of the universal human right.
[1] AcroYoga’s as a sport techniques (the method by itself teaches trust, empathic communication, verbal and non-verbal communication, control of emotions and reactions).
[2] Deep Meditation and Self-knowledge (MPA) is a method which includes a series of techniques and exercises that have the objective of leading the practitioner to an ever greater life of harmony(internal and external) and towards the intuition of their most intimate center of Being.
