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Data: 17/03/2011
A unique space for further personal and professional development of trainers working in the youth field
11-18 July 2011, Conferentiecentrum Hoorneboeg, the Netherlands
Deadline for applications: 1st May 2011.
Organisers:
UNIQUE, European network of training, consulting and research organisations (www.unique-network.org) and Nederlands Jeugdinstituut, the Dutch National Agency for "Youth in Action" programme (www.youthinaction.nl).
Questions for potential participants:
- Are you a trainer actively working in the youth field at national or European level?
- Do you feel the need for further personal and professional development?
- Have you been facing challenging situations in your training practice that you would have liked to understand better through sharing with colleagues?
- Did you feel moments of losing motivation and sense of purpose of what you are doing?
- Have you been often overstressed and burning out in your work, losing the sense of balance in your life?
- Have you been wondering how to effectively deal with emotions in a training situation?
- Would you like to reflect on your current training practice, reconnect to your passion and redefine professional vision?
If you have answered positively to most of the questions above, you might consider UNIQUE R.I.D.E. as an exciting opportunity for your personal and professional development!
Why UNIQUE R.I.D.E.?
The training is an exciting, but stressful job, where trainers, themselves, are the main tools, who need proper maintenance, too...
...therefore, it is no surprise that there is a natural need to have a break, reflect about your practices, get feedback from your colleagues, exchange good practices, develop new competences and reflect about the future directions/professional development objectives. These needs were clearly expressed in several meetings within the trainers community (e.g. Future Forum in Italy, 2006; Seminar on To/fT methodologies "Forming or Performing" in Germany, 2008).
Abilities like dealing with conflict situations, selfmanagement in training, understanding one's own and participant's emotions, handling short-term and long-term stress, increased level of self-awareness and acquiring healthy work-life balance are not only personal objectives, but also essential professional
competencies.
UNIQUE R.I.D.E. so far?
The first UNIQUE R.I.D.E. (Reflection - Innovation - Development - Empowerment) was organized in Lithuania in August 2009, hosted by Association of Youth Non-formal Education in cooperation and with great hosting support of Lithuanian National Agency.
The second edition of the RIDE took place in Grundlsee, central Austria in June 2010 realized in cooperation with Interkulturelles Zentrum, Austrian National Agency for Youth in Action programme.
For more information about previous UNIQUE R.I.D.E. events, you may wish to read the reports downloadable from: http://www.unique-network.org/images/download/DOCUMENTS/report_unique%20ride_2010.pdf
Target group for UNIQUE R.I.D.E.:
- Trainers working for training pools of Youth in Action National Agencies;
- Freelance trainers working in the youth field at national and European level;
- Actively working as trainers at least two years;
- Able to communicate in English;
- Able to participate in the full duration of the course;
- Motivated for further personal and professional development;
- Supported by National Agency or willing to self-finance the participation.
Key benefits for trainers-participants:
- Increased level of self-awareness and enhanced emotional competence;
- Trying new techniques and approaches transferable to their own trainings;
- Increased understanding of challenging situations in training;
- Gained useful insights and tools from psychology and psychotherapy;
- Increased ability to handle stress in training and life in general;
- Meaningful discussions about "burning issues" and training-related dilemmas;
- Clarity on reasons and desired directions in further professional development;
- Set personal and professional development plan;
- Regained passion and motivation for work.
The methodology and approach of UNIQUE R.I.D.E.:
- Combination of outdoor and indoor educational methods;
- Involves professional coaching and inter-vision possibilities;
- Brings together insights from psychology and psychotherapy and experiences from training;
- The programme is run in a carefully planned stress-free timeframe;
- Includes optional well-being space to share effective strategies and practices in dealing with stress;
- The R.I.D.E. is held in a "wellbeing venue", which support reflection and provides possibilities for relaxation, sport and enjoyment.
The UNIQUE R.I.D.E. topics:
- Personal and professional development;
- Training-related dilemmas and challenging situations;
- Understandi
Sito web: http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth/doc152_en.htm
Email: [email protected]
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