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Navigate your inner compass: a journey to explore the connection between sexuality and identity
Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

This training course started with the idea that prevention of sexuality is so much more than information and facts. Sexuality and the human body are essential for young people and play an important role in the learning process of sexuality. Questions and issues regarding sexuality and relationships are essentially a question of identity. With this training course we extended the subject of sexuality beyond information and widen the perspective of the matter and connected sexuality to identity and discover values and norms in connection to sexuality on a societal, European, national and personal level. Further youth workers can play an important role in establishing a context and making life comprehensible for young people. The policies and praciticies of sexual pedagogy varies across Europe. This training course answered the need among youth workers to explore how sexuality is connected to identity and at the same time learn tools, methods and approaches in connection to sexuality which can be transferred into youth work practicies. The overall aim The overall aim of the training course was to increase awareness among youth workers of the inner process and inner compass from a holistic approach (body, mind and heart) in connection to sexuality and identity, and to develop the capacity in supporting young people to explore this. During the trainig course this aim also came clearly out, which the participants confirmed. Objectives - Discover which norms we have in connection to sexuality and identity - Investigate how society and myself sees sexuality and how it influence young people - Raise awareness of your own identity in general and resources - Learn how to express sexuality in words/communication and attitude - Explore how sexuality is seen in different European cultures - Discover tools and methods of sexual pedagogy with youngsters The Training course Navigate your Inner Compass took place in Munkviken, Sweden between the 3rd and 10th of April 2015. 22 participants from Sweden, Belgium, Austria, England, Croatia, Italy, Spain and Malta joined the training course. The training course was based on non-formal and informal education with a self-directed learning approach. The training course was developed from the expectations and needs of the participants and the experience and knowledge from the trainers. The training course was characterized by highly participatory, interactive and experiential methods. The working methods included working in pairs and small groups, team building activities, discussions, workshops developed by the participant, individual and group reflection and self-assessment. All the photos, exercises and all the materials, handouts, pictures, movies, tools, useful links from the training course was collected on a dropbox and shared among the participants. They were stimulated to spread their learning process in their own practise and share it with colleagues from elsewhere. The participants were inspired to spread the results with their target groups, youngsters. Through this, the project result was dissememinated. Further, the trainers produced a narrative report with the outcomes of the training course in a pdf format which was spread with the participants and the project organizations and on the involved organizations homepages. The long term impact of the training course is that back home the participants are better prepared for questions from youngsters about sexuality/relationships. The participants are more aware of their role and identity as a youth worker. As a result and impact of this training course, the participants will give more of themselves in their consults so the youngsters have the feeling they receive more than only information. Also participating organisations have an increased number of methods, theory and experiences about this topic since the participants have spread their experience within their organisations. In addition this project may lead to future cooperation between organizations within the frame of Erasmus+ since the participants got the opportunity to work together on future projects.

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