Location: Sievershausen, near Hannover, Germany
Age: 18 +
Language: English
If so, we look forward to receiving your registration!
In recent years, we have observed an increasing radicalization in public communications and an increase in hate speech on social media. News and social media are dominated by escalating and polarizing language. Nationalist, anti-democratic and racist actors are threatening social cohesion worldwide with targeted fake news. This has become increasingly clear over the past 10 years and has reached a new level since Russian troops invaded Ukraine: democracy and peace are under threat worldwide.
With this training, which is part of our long-term project "Young Activist for Peace", we want to remind you that we as human beings are also characterized by the ability to communicate successfully, to cooperate, to show compassion and to act in solidarity. We believe that the ability to communicate successfully is a key to greater understanding and appreciation for one another and contributes to a more peaceful society.
Our training aims to provide the opportunity to develop knowledge by learning and performing. We are inspired by the following questions:
We are happy that Christoph Pinkert will be our trainer this year. He is an experienced trainer, lecturer and supervisor for peace education, conflict management as well as leadership and organizational development, whose achievements are recognised at an international level. During the training, he will combine theoretical concepts with their practical implementation to reach a non-violent conflict resolution.
The participation of Ukrainian participants as well as online communication with Russian young people is planned. For potential participants with the Russian citizenship: If you are interested to join our Training, please consult this page in Russian [ВНИМАНИЮ УЧАСТНИКОВ С ГРАЖДАНСТВОМ РФ].
Become part of the international community working for peace and a world without discrimination!
We invite two participants from EU- and neighbouring countries from each partner. Some experience in youth or non-formal political education is required. You are welcome to use the experiences and results of this project in your own work.
Conditions for Participation & Contact
To register, please contact one of our partners in your country.
NB! There are no more available places.
Turkey | PIYA Turkey | Website | iletisim(at)pigenclikdernegi.org |
Estonia | ESTYES | Website | estyes(at)estyes.ee |
Italy | Lunaria | Website | scambi(at)lunaria.org |
Germany | ICJA | Website | youthexchange(at)icja.de |
Ukraine | ISKRA | Website | |
Greece | ELIX | Website | youth(at)elix.org.gr |
Finland | Maailmanvaihto – ICYE Finland | Webiste | maailmanvaihto(at)maailmanvaihto.fi |
France | Concordia France | Website | vlt(at)concordia.fr |
Slovakia | KERIC | Website | lenicka(at)keric.sk |
Contrary to what was announced, there will be no online session before the training in presence: Our team made the experience that online sessions are also excluding participants, due to lack of time or for technical reasons. So our first meeting will be at the venue itself. But we will arrange an online session after the training as opportunity for more feedback and extended exchange
Day 1 - 15.08.
• Arrival and welcome
• Getting to know each other, team building
• Orientation about venue, Corona rules
• Expectations, first information about program
Day 2 - 16.08
• Introduction in the program
• Getting to know each other: on personal level, on level of activities, presentation of your organizations
• our motivation of participation
• Clarification of important terms
• How do the war in Ukraine effect my live and my work?
• Daily reflection round
Day 3 - 17.08
• Communication in times of war: Work with sources, videos, excerpts to learn about and assess forms and ways of communication and propaganda.
• Current development of the war
• First steps towards communication with Russian participants, exploring online tools
• Daily reflection round
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Day 4 - 18.08
• What does peaceful communication mean? Introduction and exchange of experiences, Introduction in “Non Violent Communication, (NVC)”
• Deepen the communication with Russian participants: Sharing thoughts, feelings and actions about the war based on NVC
• Transactional Analysis (TA): communication from the adult ego How can communication succeed in crisis and mediation.
• Getting to know the ego states AND contracting when working with groups to set the framework of appreciative communication.
• Daily reflection round
Day 5- 19.08
• Working on contracts and working with own target groups,
• Upcoming projects of the participants will be looked at from the perspective of TA and contracts: Ensuring peaceful communication / dealing with resistance and violent intervention
• Free afternoon / Daily reflection round
• Introduction in Erasmus+ and Youth Pass
Day 6 - 20.08
• Deepen the communication with Russian participants: Sharing thoughts, feelings and actions about the war based on NVC
• My contribution to the war in Ukraine and other conflicts
• What can I, what can we contribute?! Where are the limits and possibilities?
• Focus on the methodical exchange of one's own projects, vision work to escape the powerlessness in the face of war, conclude final agreements and self-contracts
Day 7 - 21.08
• Develop your own examples of appreciative communication, or find where such examples exist
• Integrate them into your own work/project development
• Workshops and small groups possible: peaceful communication in social media, theatre performances, continuation of the project phase from the previous evening
• Establish concrete application of all contents to future-oriented projects in their respective sphere of activity
• Presentations of the developed contents
• Final evaluation / How can I implement at home what I have learned?
• Farewell party
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Day 8 - 22.08
• Youthpass Certificates
• Farewell & Departure