International Training of Trainers "Make it Visible"
Approaches and activities on how to work with young people the topic of (invisible) racism
DESCRIPTION
This course is implemented in the framework of the STAR project – Stand Together Against Racism, which is a 3-year collaboration among 4 partners from Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, and Poland, with the aim to counter invisible racism and other forms of intolerance in the everyday lives of young people, including hate speech, through preventive measures, youth work, and non-formal education. Within 2 years of the project, the partner organisations worked with young people on the local level testing and upscaling approaches and tools, and in the last year of the project, we aim to share them with youth work practitioners. More information about the project here.
With this training, we aim to develop trainers´ competences as well as competencies for using and adapting tools and approaches developed within STAR project and to enable participants to run antiracist activities with young people.
Objectives:
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To develop/improve trainers’ competencies especially connected with understanding and facilitating individual and group learning processes and designing educational programmes
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To build comprehensive understanding of invisible racism and how it needs to be tackled in the overall framework of antiracist work
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To explore main topics connected with antiracist work – hate speech, microaggressions, power relations, prejudices and stereotypes, emotional awareness and good treatment
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To learn how to use the manual CONSTELLATIONS in training and youth work.
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To empower participants to run antiracist activities with young people and encourage cooperation and develop common antiracist actions in their local environment/communities together with “racialized” people
How the training will be organized
The course is composed of two parts – 20 hours will be implemented in the form of ZOOM meetings in real time, and 20 hours will be done on a self-paced basis via the www.youth-mooc.eu platform. For the ZOOM meetings there will be two alternative groups created: one with training sessions in the mornings, and second with training sessions in the afternoons. In the application form you can specify which slot works better for you, but once you are assigned to a group there will be no possibility of changing your timetable.
COURSE CONTENT
ORGANIZATIONS
FUNDED BY
INSTRUCTORS
Aga Byrczek
Trainer and youth worker
Cazalla Intercultural – Spain
Vladislav Petkov
Trainer and youth worker
PEN – Bulgaria
Tea Stanic
Trainer and youth worker
Cazalla Intercultural – Spain
Dariusz Grzemny
Trainer and youth worker
Szanza – Poland
Silvia Volpi
Trainer and youth worker
REDU – Italy
Aga Byrczek
Aga is a youth worker active since 2003, currently working in Cazalla Intercultural, Spanish NGO located in Lorca, Murcia, covering different positions: trainer, project designer and coordinator, volunteer coach and finance manager. She holds a masters in political science from the University of Wroclaw and she could be described as an observer of political and educational trends especially related to interculturality, diversity, inclusion, human rights and global education. Her articles are collected in the “Youth work in Practice” blog. Aga is also a learning freak and loves designing and experimenting with new NFE activities on both international and local levels.
Vladislav Petkov
Vladislav Petkov is a coordinator, expert and activist on issues of social justice in Bulgaria, particularly in the sphere of anti-racism, gender equality and LGBTI rights. He holds master’s degrees in Law and Cultural Anthropology, and is currently doing a PhD on cultural anthropology at Sofia University with his research focused on cultural populism. He was trained as a trainer on human rights education by the Council of Europe’s Directorate of Youth and Sports back in 2009 and since then has planned and facilitated numerous learning processes on local, national and international level on topics, related to human rights. He has worked on the topic of anti-racism and minority empowerment in Bulgaria, particularly in relation to the Roma community. Chocolate-lover and Beyonce fan.
Tea Stanic
Coming from the faculty of Arts of Ljubljana where she studied Spanish and French philology, from the moment she entered the classroom for the first time she became a strong defender of the principles of non-formal education.
Tea Stanic has been active in the area of education for Gender Equality and Human Rights for the past 10 years. Currently working as manager of European projects at the Association Cazalla Intercultural in Spain.
She started exploring the topic of Gender and Gender Based Violence (GBV) in 2008 when involved in the Daphne III Program, coordinating the project Heartbeat in Lorca and conducting workshops for Young people on GBV in intimate relationships. After that she leaded numerous trainings for facilitators, teachers and trainers on GBV and micro aggressions, leaded conferences and seminars on the topic on the national and international level.
From 2014 specially focused on invisible racism and micro aggressions, exploring the topic of power relations and developing methodology to be used in formal and non-formal educational settings.
A part from that, since 2012 she is actively involved in the training pool of the Spanish National Agency of Erasmus+ Program, leading trainings of the EVS training cycle and TCAs. Moreover, passionate multiplier of the learning to learn competence, global education and graphic facilitation.
Dariusz Grzemny
Dariusz Grzemny is a youth worker in Poland and a trainer/consultant in educational projects across Europe dealing with anti-discrimination and human rights education.
Rooted in local youth groups, his international work experience includes the Amnesty International Secretariat in London, where he worked as a human rights education advisor and the Council of Europe where he was an educational advisor. He is a member of the Pool of Trainers in the Youth Directorate of the Council of Europe. He was involved in the development and implementation of the No Hate Speech Movement campaign in the Council of Europe. He is an author of several educational materials on human rights education. He is the editor and co-author of the revised version of „Gender Matters – a Manual on Gender-based Violence Affecting Young People”.
Dariusz currently works in SZANSA, a local NGO is Glogow (Poland) advising and monitoring the work of the youth workers who work with the issues of violence, including gender-based violence.
Silvia Volpi
Coming from the faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures in Pisa (IT), where she studied French and English philology and linguistic. After the University degree, she accomplished the preparation for the Diplomatic career and got passionate by political sciences studies. Recently, she started again to study mostly in the field of Psychology and well-being, getting a diploma as a Professional Coach.
Since the moment she started teaching Italian in France, she discovered the power of Non-formal Learning approaches and methodology. She was working as a local youth worker since 1993, mainly promoting active participation and a human rights culture. She had the opportunity to be trained in the Advanced Training for Trainers in Europe, promoted by the Youth Department of Council of Europe, improving her competences on human rights and human rights education.
She´s active as a trainer at a national and international level mainly promoting human rights and human rights culture and fighting against racism and all forms of intolerance. She´s member of the pool of trainers of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe and she has the opportunity to work for the Italian National Agency on Youth for initiatives related to social inclusion.
Moreover, she was part of the team translating Compass and Compasito into Italian and she´s an activist of the NO HATE SPEECH movement in Italy.
Finally, she likes seaside and sailing.
