Cultures in Contact
transcultural training seminars in Krzyżowa (Poland)
In 2012 Kreisau-Initiative e.V. and it's partners are offering two different training activities:
1st CiC-Training: intergenerational learning in international youth work
03.-08.03.2012 -> 20 participants from Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Italy
Within the training we will connect theory (What is a generation? What does intergenerational learning mean?) and practice (How to foster intergenerational learning in (inter)national contexts?Which methods can be applied to an intergenerational group? Where to get the money for intergenerational projects?). Participants will also have the chance to discuss the interconnection of age (youth, old-age) and discrimination to challenge and reduce prejudices and stereotypes about generations, what makes them ready for work with intergenerational groups.
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application form (pdf)
application form (doc)
2nd CiC-Training: The Anti-Bias-Approach in (inter)national youth work
15.-20.04.2012 + 18.-23.06.2012 -> 20 participants from Turkey, Slovakia, Poland and Germany
The training aims at enabling European multipliers from the field of national and international youth work to use the Anti-Bias-Approach in their various fields of work. Starting from an intensive self-reflection, the participants are encouraged to develop their own approach for dealing with prejudices, power relations and discrimination. Within the training we see the various experiences of the participants as the main ressource for developing new perspectives for daily work. One of the main objectives is to transfer the approach to one's own professional and personal context.
The training consists of two modules. That enables us to really get deeply into the topic. Between the two modules participants will have the chance to try out some methods and reflect them in the second module.
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info pack (pdf)
application form (pdf)
application form (doc)
Background of the project
Kreisau-Initiative Berlin e.V. and the Krzyżowa Foundation for mutual understanding are cooperating for years in the field of international youth exchange. One of our most improtant aims is to foster intercultural dialogue between Germany and Poland as well as in Germany and Poland. Since 2005, we started to develpop several projects for transcultural exchange via youth meetings, which are taking part in Krzyżowa (Poland).
During our work we regognized the high potential of an even-handed transcultural dialogue between people with different backgrounds as well as the benefits of transcultural learning for young people. That convinced us to proceed with our work to be able to react on the demographic change in European Societies. The world today is more global than ever before. We are aiming to give everybody the possibility to internationalize their lifes.
The training seminars
Our transcultural training seminars are taking part in the international youth meeting centre in Krzyżowa / Poland several times a year. The target group of those seminars are young people with different cultural backgrounds whishing to develop their transcultural skills just for themselves or in the context of their working specialization. So we attract pupils, students and youth workers as well as people from migrant or youth organizations from all over Europe.
Every seminar will be adjusted to one of those target groups in order to optimize the learning effects. We are working with the transcultural approach, using methods which are based on individual experience and reflection. We are aiming to conect our seminars with cultural practice, in order to reach maximum effects. Our team of internationel trainers is caring for optimal settings and productive learning process.
