"FREE YOUR MIND - START NEW LIFE - rozwijanie kluczowych kompetencji społecznych młodzieży zagrożonej niedostosowaniem społecznym w wieku 15+"
▶Summary
The need to develop coaching competences - is in line with the strategy of the established partnership, promoting good youth work, assuming the development of programmes for the informal education...
▶Objectives
The implementation of the project in a trilateral partnership initiated activities to develop and support non-formal learning for young people, its penetration into formal education pathways in institutions working for the benefit of young people in the EU and in the workplace, involving among others: HR departments, entrepreneurs, leaders, educators, teachers, educators working on a daily basis with people 15+ (with social maladjustment, displaying risk-taking behaviour) by creating a new, comprehensive and at the same time innovative educational offer. The partnership, through its experience, worked to support capacity-building of youth workers and youth work and facilitate young people's transition into adulthood, especially inclusion into society on the basis of positive communication, inclusion into the labour market and the development of soft competences related to mindfulness, values, tolerance, communication in teamwork, proactivity in actions taken, coping with stress and negative emotions. Overcoming skills mismatch and exclusion was considered necessary and desirable by the partnership.
▶Activities
The success of the "FREE YOUR MIND" project, had a number of activities implemented, these included: - management and monitoring activities and ongoing communication; - international stationary partnership meetings; - the development of a comprehensive project outcome: THE "FREE YOUR MIND" DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME , consisting of 4 closely correlating and complementary modules: - A - D with implemented resources for the mobile application "Your move" - 30 workshop sessions containing 2 modules each (60 meetings in total) with 30 participants and 9 trainers - execution at the end of the session of feedback from participants used to implement improvements, changes, in modules A-D of the programme; - implementation of 9 dissemination events for 235 trainers (...) from 3 countries: Poland, Macedonia, Portugal; - activities promoting the "FREE YOUR MIND" programme and numerous publications on the web; - and finally the external evaluation and expert evaluation of the project results carried out by an external specialist/psychologist, sociologist, psychotherapist Mr. Herulano Andrade and Prof. Monika Markovska , who are active in the non-formal education of young people.
▶Impact
The outputs and outcomes focused on supporting non-formal education for young people 15+ and combine the use of best practice workshops with self-development of young people. Indeed, the outcome of the project was the joint development and dissemination by the partnership of a comprehensive development Programme "FREE YOUR MIND", which contains 4 closely correlating and complementary modules: - A. TOOLBOOK FOR TRAINERS - B. A DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR TRAINERS ENTITLED: "BODY AND MOVEMENT IN WORKING WITH EMOTIONS" - C. A BOARD GAME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE -. "MILEAGE CARDS" - D. TOOLBOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE with implemented resources for the mobile application "Your move", THE TRAINER/EDUCATOR ACCEPTS THE ROLE OF TUTOR based on the authenticity, commitment, acceptance and autonomy of each young participant in the programme. In addition: - THE PARTNERSHIP WEBSITE https://wellsol.eu/freeyourmind in EN has been set up, together with the OPEN EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM - AN ORIGINAL LOGO WAS DEVELOPED - A PROMOTIONAL VIDEO FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME WAS DEVELOPED - an ISBN was assigned to the programme as an ON-LINE PUBLICATION in the INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION BASE Polona.pl