Storytelling: senses and competences
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: May 31, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
"Storytelling: senses and competences"is a mobility project for youth workers taking place in Romania, Timisoara from 12 to 17 October 2014 (excluding the arrival and departure days).
The project gathers 20 youth workers coming from 6 European countries, from 7 organizations: Asociatia Babel Education from Romania which is the host organization; Klub studentu, rodicu a pratel Cyrilometodejskeho gymnazia v Prostejove from Czech Republic; Cooperativa Sociale Immaginaria A R.L.Onlus from Italy; Klubs Maja - jaunatne vienotai Eiropai from Latvia; Piedzivojumu parks from Latvia; Animashow Associação Cultural e Recreativa from Portugal and Stowarzyszenie Sprezyna - Centrum Edukacji Nieformalnej from Poland.
The 20 participants attending this training course are youth workers, youth leaders, high school teachers, volunteers that work in the field of youth, volunteer coordinators, mentors or school psychologists.
They are either youth workers that have applied the method of storytelling, but they are not aware of the employability competences that can be acquired by using the method; they are youth workers that are working with youth in terms of employability and need an innovative non-formal educational method to better reach the needed competences; or they are participants that have already used storytelling to reach the employability competences and want to level up by creating activities for the Storytelling Resource Pack.
Babel Education, the host organization, has conducted several surveys in order to find what are the main issues young people and youth workers are confronted with nowadays. The results of these surveys, together with the feedback received from youth organizations from the community has led to some common conclusions analyzed within the problem tree. The final results showed that youth workers are not aware of the potential of the innovative method of Storytelling in developing competences needed for employability, in their work with young people. Since our organization has had previous valuable experience using Storytelling as a non-formal method of education during the last 4 years, our main objective is to make youth workers aware of the potential of the innovative method of Storytelling in developing competences needed for employability.
The four main objectives are:
1.enabling 20 youth workers to get to know and experience the non-formal method of Storytelling;
2.offering the 20 participants the opportunity to discover and understand the employability competences that are developed through Storytelling;
3.creating an intercultural network of youth workers and organizations that use the method of Storytelling in developing employability skills;
4.creating printed and online tools to promote the method of Storytelling in working with young people (the Storytelling Resource Pack and the Storytelling Resource Blog);
During the 6 days of the training course the participants will discover and use tools for reaching the employability competences through Storytelling, such as verbal communication,team work.This will be done through all senses in means of various non-formal methods and will be based on sharing good practice. The performed activities will allow youth workers to experience a wide variety of non-formal methods of education. The learning process of the project includes several stages: Interactive workshops and Input on: Storytelling through sound and movement, Storytelling through sight and touching, Storytelling through smell and touch; Voice projection and acting on stage; Facilitating the method in a public space from the community; World Café on reaching employability competences; Receiving feedback; and transferring all the tools used in a Storytelling Handbook: Storytelling Resource Pack and Blog. The last day will be dedicated to putting the youth workers in the shoes of the audience experiencing a full day of storytelling sessions facilitated by the internationally well-known storyteller Andrew Wright.
The results of the mobility project are disseminated starting with the training course. Within the TC there will be three Storytelling events facilitated by the participants: "Stories around Europe".The results will also be compiled in the Storytelling Resource Pack and Blog.
The impact of the project is not only focused on the understanding and knowing how of the youth workers regarding the method of Storytelling when working with young people and to extract employability competences, but also to experience the method as such, by means of all senses and to organize and facilitate events and workshops around the Storytelling method in their own countries.
The longer term benefits will be seen also within the participating organizations and the target groups.Regarding the organizations they will gain trust in what regards preparing the young people for the labor market and regarding the young people, their chances of employment will increase.
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