Training course “Inclusion is a journey, not a destination!”

Oct 112025

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

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 this 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.

More information about the next steps of the project can be found here: Project infosheet