The Power of Non Formal Education 2022

Why this Training Course?

- To stimulate the participants to feel and reflect about the power of non-formal education (=NFE) by experiencing different kind of non-formal educational methods.
- To analyze the role and reception of NFE in our different countries within a common Europe..
- To react against the growing consuming approaches towards young people in the non-formal education field.
- To explore meanings, roles and complementarities of different educational approaches and methods (formal, non-formal, informal).
- To reconsider daily youth work practices.
- To understand the principles of program building and NFE within Erasmus+ Youth.

How it will be done?

In order to have real impacts, the participants experience an innovative approach, using a full immersion in the experiential learning cycle: doing/ feeling, reflecting, transferring...

To have profound impact, we need to go further than classical running of training courses. The participants are encouraged to really build their own training and learning process, supported by a fine tuned pedagogical programme. We consider that this is the condition to understand the real power of NFE.

The pedagogical process

A fundamental flow during the training is based upon:
- Experiencing: different educational settings, different non formal education methods (role play, simulation exercise...)
- Reflecting: on the methods and its impacts, on the power and limits of NFE, on building a pedagogical process...
- Transferring: to the own reality of participants, in order to improve ways of working with young people
- Sharing: different perceptions, current situations and experiences.
- Developing: the building capacity of the participants, by including them in the decision process of the project designing (participants will decide some sessions they feel they need to have) but also in the implementation of the program (‘Power to the People’ moments).

Important to mention: this training course is organized with the local community of where the training course takes place. Several moments during the course will be in close interaction with the local population. This not only in order to enlarge the learning opportunities of both involved groups, but also to offer a more concrete intercultural experience.

Participants should be at least 18 years old and should have a good level of English.