2011 – Multiplifier Training “Theatrical-Pedagogic Methods within the Work with Disabled Juveniles and Young Adults in International Meetings”

CULTURE GOES EUROPE (CGE) – Soziokulturelle Initiative Erfurt e.V. from August 2^nd to 7^th, 2011 in the European Youth Education and Meeting Centre Weimar, Germany, hosted a German-Polish Multiplifier Training entitled “Theatrical-Pedagogic Methods within the Work with Disabled Juveniles and Young Adults in International Meetings”.

The training has been targeting multiplifiers, youth leaders, pedagogues from education centres, and organisations, which work in theatre groups with disabled juveniles – and/or juveniles from an unsupportive social environment – and which already gained experiences in international youth work, respectively which will implement such kind of projects.

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The participants have got to know theatre pedagogic methods of several fields of theatre, which can be applied within the own work. Together has been worked out, how communicative and social skills of the juveniles like self-confidence, language skills, motivity, creativity, concentration, capacity for teamwork and cooperation can be enhanced. In the workshops the basal techniques, exercises and small sequences have been developed by simple means. The participants tried all of the methods themselves and evaluated them together. Furthermore it has been worked out, how more disabled juveniles will be able to join international exchanges in future, at which they can enhance their aptitudes. The participants also engaged new contacts, as well as shared their previous experiences and new ideas.

The referees are coming from theatre work, from off and institutionalised theatres, and are acting as theatre pedagogues and directors with several children’s, youth and adult groups, which also realise different international projects.

The training has been bilingual and interpreted/translated.

You can download the participants guide here: German / Polish.

The project has been developed in cooperation with the Polish partner organisation “Chata z pomysłami” of Warsaw and was promoted by the German-Polish Youth Association (DPJW/PNWM) and the Heidehof Foundation.