Training 4 Trainers – Training Course for Youth Workers under Erasmus+

We are happily sharing that Friends of Children in Romania hosted 31 youth workers, from 9 #EU countries in the “Training 4 Trainers” training course financed by #erasmus #erasmusplus from 20-30 October, in #Comanesti.  

The #youthworkers developed abilities in working with youngster from disadvantaged areas through the following:

1. Practising training and presentation competencies for facilitating transfer of EU common values
2. Developing public speaking skills for presenting to groups and audiences
3. Engaging and managing group dynamics Gaining better rapport with the target groups
4 Improving personal professional and organisational development through self assessment and creating action plans

During the “T4T” Training Course group, joined another activity, a youth exchange group who attended the project “Be On Your Way 2” hosted by Asociatia Generatia Schimbarii and went for a “Ted Talk” event in #Comanesti at Colegiul Tehnic “Dimitrie Ghika”. 

👉 The participants in the T4T delivered speeches about “Success in Life” in front of the audience of 100+ guests.

👉 We went on further to visit the organisation AGES and run workshops with the youngsters participating in the Youth Exchange (56 people) on tools for their careers
👉 As an ending some of the participants offered to be “Living Books” in the Living Library organised by AGES NGO
🥳 The day ended with Romanian Traditions – Bear Dance & Romanian Wedding

SO, we concluded: we are on OUR WAY to be Trainers.
Thanks to Andrei Prundeanu Cicerone Radu Bosuioc Stephen Molnar for your contribution to these activities.

THE TOPIC

Throughout the 9 days of activities the group explored through NFE methods a variety of tools, as mentioned above and had the chance to work a lot on managing states

and speech in front of a group, as well as giving feedback to each other.It  has  been challenging,getting  the  group  out  of  the  comfort  zone. Furthermore, many sessions and individual interventions were recorded as a measure to have a clear track of improvement, and extracting learning points. A highlight was the moment when the group worked on humour and learning how to effectively use the microphone.

 

Even more, we had activities together with the youth group from the Erasmus+ project that happened in parallel, where our trainers planned specific activities for career guidance/ career development to be in line with their topic. And it was a great success.

As we reached the end of the training activities we managed to structure several follow-up projects in order to get the cooperation with the partner NGOs further. Some ideas are related to the commonly identified needs of the communities represented by the youth workers such as: Emotional Development, Entrepreneurial Skill-sets in Real Life simulations, Team Work Communication or Stress Reduction.

We would like to THANK the involvement of all the youth workers present, the support of our partner organisations, and Stephen Molnar for sharing new tools with a committed group of youth workers.

It has been an accomplishment for all of us, it brought new learnings, it created new collaborations, it managed to bring out follow-up ideas for future projects and made us willing to keep doing what we’re doing.

CONGRATS TO ALL!

Later Edit. (January 2020)

The Dissemination was a success in each of the partner countries, and we would like to share the photos and some of the remarks received from the youth workers.

A link to the T4T handbook with tools & methods for trainers can be downloaded here T4T_HandBook_Erasmus+