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COACHING FOR CREATIVITY
COACHING FOR CREATIVITY
Start date: Jul 1, 2009,
Coaching for Creativity was a training course of 9 days, for 27 participants, organised by 11 organisations: 3 from Hungary: Egyesek, YOPA , Artists of Life and 8 organisations form our international networks (Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland).The target group was people active in youth work: young volunteers, peer educators, representatives of student councils, youth workers, mentors, coaches, counsellors, youth leaders, trainers in the youth field, colleagues of the local government youth departments. The theme was COACHING and YOUTH WORK. The purpose was to improve the personal and professional awareness of the participants, by this to improve the quality of their youth work and the quality of the support they give to youth and their projects. The participants clarified what coaching is, what the approach is behind this method, where coaching is in the context of youth work, learn and practice a few of its techniques. Through interactive exercises they provided personal experience and several opportunities to practice and develop the skills needed in personal and team support, and to see whether and how it is adaptable in the context of the youth work of the participants. They used the methods of experiential learning and coaching.