IT IS ALWAYS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT’S DONE

Nov 062024

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE

The theme of the project is social inclusion, the analysis of the situation of people with any kind of disability and fewer opportunities, and fight against discrimination. We are going to analyse from many different point of view the situations, the rights of people with disabilities and fewer opportunities in every different country. We will experience what it feels like to be in other people’s shoes, and how the society faces their needs.

The objective we intend to provide new tools and new methodologies to the social workers and volunteers, working on the integration of people with disabilities and fewer opportunities, to effectively implement their competences in the help relationship and refine strategies for inclusion of people with disabilities and fewer opportunities. Relating to disability presupposes the orientation to experimentation, and the willingness to manage processes and changes of perspective in a flexible way.

The goal is to experiment the encounter with dis-ability, contact and the search for commonalities and the abatement of stereotypes and fears towards the “different from us”. The concept of inclusion leads to the recognition of a right as a form of contrast to its opposite: exclusion

The training therefore aims to:

• Explore the cultural differences and explore how different Countries have addressed issues of disabilities and fewer opportunities.

• Examine the issues from different perspectives with regard to disabilities, marginality and the concept integration: stereotypes and prejudice

• Analyse how gender, male and female, can affect group dynamics and how it can contribute to exclusion, with particular attention to the double discrimination of disabled women and LGBTQ communities

• The dynamics of power, as people exercise power over others: how it is used consciously and unconsciously in the groups and everyday life;

• Share and develop new tools in order to provide new methodologies to the social workers working about integration with people with disabilities and with fewer opportunities, in their social contest, to effectively implement competences in the help relation, civil rights and strategies about inclusion of people with disabilities and fewer opportunities.

• Develop different communication styles, aiming to facilitate discussions and decisional procedures.

• Develop personal knowledge’s about discrimination, stereotypes and prejudices: this work will help a better understanding of dynamics that are behind discriminator behaviours

Expected skills: a better understanding of the dynamics behind discriminating behaviours, develop listening and an attitude open to diversity, share the different working methods adopted in each country to facilitate the balance between disabled people and not disabled once, value oneself, face reality, know one’s limits, sense of responsibility, confront one another, understand the fertility of error, learn from experience, do not be afraid to change, do not be afraid to try. Particular attention will be paid to the issues of different abilities and fewer opportunities to the processes of creation of prejudices and stereotypes and possible activities that contribute to their deconstruction level both individually and collectively. We will go and explore the differences and similarities between countries and through the direct testimony of the social workers, will deepen the theme of being “in-between” between different social and cultural contexts and the possibilities social inclusion.

METHODOLOGIES

We propose an interactive methodology using the tools promoted by non-formal education. The workshops and the activities will be based on the active methodologies proposed by theatre, storytelling and songwriting, photo/video linked to the tales that everyone will share… We believe that all these tools are powerful to promote dialogue, to exchange experiences and good practices, to analyse conflicts and address them in a non-violent way. In fact, contact with space, with natural elements and with each other can be achieved through theatre, and the other tools are ways to deal with human feelings and to reflect on different topics and are particularly suitable for developing the themes of the project.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES / WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

During the 1^st step, the Training for trainer we will taste different kind of activities/tools: as we mentioned before: theatre, songwriting, photo/video, non-formal game-exercises.

At the end of the first step, we will decide which tool we would like to explore more in the 2^nd step.

PARTICIPANTS’ AGE: 18 +

WORKSHOP LANGUAGE: English

TARGET GROUP: The project is addressed to youth-social workers, volunteers and activists of the association that have the values or integration, the respect for minorities, the fight against discrimination, the recognition of the rights of people with disabilities and fewer opportunities as their Mission and interested in innovative methodologies in the field of non-formal education.

COORDINATING ASSOCIATION: Artemide Association – Italy

PARTNER ASSOCIATIONS: North Macedonia – Council for Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency – SPPDM, Serbia – Udru?enje gra?ana za multikulturalnu saradnju centar ?il Vern, Spain – Youth BCN, Portugal – Cj Amarante, Greece – ArtiMental -Art & Psychoeducation NPO, Romania – Universitur, T?rkiye – Genc Birikim Dernegi, Bulgaria – CVS-Bulgaria

The technical details about food, accommodation and travel reimbursement can be found in the Technical Information about the training. Please read carefully!

PROJECT STRUCTURE

The project will be structured in 4 steps:

– 1^st step: Training for trainers 19th (arrival day) – 27th (departure day) November 2024

Age of participants : 18+

Countries involved: Countries involved: All the Partner in this project will be involved in this step with 2 – 3 participants each Country (open for Bulgarian participants)

At the end of this 1^st step, we will decide which tool wants to explore in deeper

– 2^nd step: Deeper training for trainers 20th (arrival day) – 28th (departure day) March 2025

Age of participants : 18+

Countries involved: Countries involved: All the Partner in this project will be involved in this step with 2 – 3 participants each Country (open for Bulgarian participants)

One of the participants at this second step, has to be the same person that took part in the first step

– 3^rdstep: Youth Exchange 19th (arrival day) – 30th (departure day) May 2025Age of participants: 17 – 30 (the group leader and the accompanying person can be +30)

Countries involved: Countries involved: 5 Countries will be involved in this step with 1 group leader+ 5 participants each Countries (not open for Bulgarian participants)

– 4^th step: Youth Exchange 17th (arrival day) – 28th (departure day) September 2024

Age of participants: 17 – 30 (the group leader can be +30)

Countries involved: Countries involved: 5 Countries will be involved in this step with 1 group leader+ 5 participants each Countries (open for Bulgarian participants)

In order to help the process of the project, it is required that the group leader of each team will be one of the participants at the training for trainers for a double reason: the first is that he/she already knows the work that we are going to do, the staff, and the house, so that can facilitate the process of the participants.

The second reason is that he/she, can experiments by leading in a safe place, some of the sessions during the exchange.

For the 3^rd and the 4^thsteps (the youth exchanges) we will be divided in 2 different group with 5 Countries each; only Italy will be in both the Youth Exchanges. Every group will be set by 1 group leader (one of the 2 participants in the Training Course) and 4 young people from each association.

In every steps we will have:

team building activities, role playing, simulations, debates and all the activities that involve the actively every and each participant, base of theatre activities. The exchange of knowledge and technical tools will be constantly monitored through specific sessions on rating systems before and after:

• meeting between the participants and the trainers: mutual discovery

• workshops, discussions and presentation of case studies on the aim of resilience and fewer opportunities

• processing of non-violent methods of conflict management and sharing of work methods usually used in local context.

At the end of each step, we will have

• the realization of an open final performance

• the writing and recording of a song

• a docu-video about our story together.