Outdoor Brings More!

Outdoor education is often seen as having fun with youngsters outdoors – but there is more to it, outdoor brings more ! With an appropriate application of outdoor methods, youth workers can more easily motivate youngsters to participate and achieve greater learning results and outcomes. During this 5-day training course an international group of youth leaders will participate in an outdoor course, which will be used as an example and experience to reflect upon. These reflections will help the participants to understand better their role, their leadership style within groups and will make them understand the methods used giving them the opportunity to adapt them to their own target groups. Over the course several moments will be used to establish links with the theoretical frame in order to facilitate a good and profound understanding. Objectives of the training course: By the end of the course, the participants will have : • experienced, analysed and reflected upon experiential learning and outdoor tools as a learning method and their transferability towards their future projects and daily work, especially youth exchanges within the ERASMUS + Youth in Action program; • understood and got the know-how to use different theoretical concepts, which give a support to run outdoor activities for learning; • learnt to develop their leadership skills in a way that supports active participation of youngsters; • and got the know-how to use methods to tackle the topic of active citizenship and participation with youngsters; • reflected upon and learnt models about active citizenship and participation. (Note for NAs: This is a TCP financed activity)