“Beauty in Unity”
The “Beauty in Unity” exchange,
application number
LV-11-21-2006-R 1is approved by the
Youth Program through the Latvian
National Agency.
The countries that will be involved in
this project are:
Latvia,
Greece,
Italy,
Hungary and
The Netherlands.
This exchange is organized by the
Christian Youth association “Krista” and
will take place in Līgatne, Latvia from
30th of July until the 13th of August
2006.
We invite all the youth between 15 and
25 that are interested in participating
in this wonderful intercultural
exchange.
We especially invite people that work
within youth organizations, unemployed
youth or people with different social or
physical disadvantages.
In order to meet the newest needs in the
personal development of young people, we
developed an exciting program, filled
with joyful, dynamic and challenging
activities.
As you will be able to see in the
detailed program, the exchange is
divided into 4 parts.
1. Personal development:
In order to create equality, we create a
common starting position in the exchange
by:
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Acquainting you with the method we
use during the activities in our
youth exchanges/trainings:
“Learning to play, playing to
learn.”;
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Developing, practicing and improving
your communication styles with
dynamic and creative activities;
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Offering you a large variety of
tools, which you can implement
during the entire exchange and also
back home within your own social and
professional activities.
2.
The Workshops:
This part of the exchange will last for
4 days. In this part you will be the
creator of your our activities.We
provide you with a challenging
opportunity of working within an
international group in which you can use
your personal skills in creating dynamic
and exciting activities for the rest of
the group.
We will only provide you with the time
table, and the rest will be your own
playfield. At the end of each “workshop”
as we call it, you will have the
opportunity to share and reflect on the
preparation time, the implementation and
results you have created with your
group.
Also, on the 9th day you will
have a free day. By this, you will have
an exciting opportunity of visiting Riga
the capital of Latvia, or any other
beautiful city that will be at your
convenience.
3.
The outdoor:
In this part of the exchange, we, the
organizing team, will develop a three
day outdoor program for you. By this we
aim to create an intensive, playful and
challenging way of individual personal
development within a group context.
The team itself will organize and
provide you with all the activities; you
only need to “enjoy the ride”.
4. Closing:
The last part of the exchange, we will
have a beautiful opportunity of sharing
our learning points, our results during
the exchange within a wonderful event
organized by the team itself: open day.
The team will invite guests: people from
all walks of life, that are themselves
interested in finding out how an
exchange is developed and implemented by
youth, and in this case: you and us the
team.
During the last day we give different
symbolic presents to each other and
there is a closing ceremony for the
participants and team.
As we already mentioned, this project is
an individual exchange in a group
context. Therefore, we plan, through out
the learning activities, to achieve a
development of skills and behaviour
changes such as:
· -
communication,
· -
cooperation,
· -
group dynamics,
· -
problem solving,
· -
intercultural team-work,
· -
handling resistance;
· -
coaching;
· -
decision –making; etc
The
main theme
that we
will focus on during this exchange is
Beauty in Unity.
Beauty in Unity we can experience by
cooperation and being open. By
cooperation, we mean
a coordinated action between two ore
more persons, working towards a common
goal, in which you look through the eyes
of the other person. By openness, we
mean the willingness to let something in
that (possibly) does not correspond to
what you think and believe in.
We think that a powerful way to reach
Beauty in Unity is by practicing
leadership. By this, we mean
to inspire others into action by being
the example yourself.
Hereby, we invite you to take part in
the special exchange we are preparing
for you!
The exchange: “Beauty in Unity”
will take place in Līgatne, Latvia from
30th of July until the 13th of August
2006.
Exchange: “Beauty in
Unity”
For the following countries:
Latvia, Greece, Italy, Hungary and
The Netherlands.
Arrival day
30th of July
Start of the program
on the 31st of July at
10.00
The end of the program
is on the 13th of August
at 22.30 pm.
Departure day
14th of August 2006
Youth Program is going to refund 70 % of
your travel costs.
For that, you have to choose the
cheapest way for travelling. For
participants from
Greece, Italy, Hungary and The
Netherlands, it is allowed to use
flights to travel to Latvia.
In addition, we ask you to keep all your
tickets, boarding pass and receipts
(originals), this in order for us to be
able to reimburse you the 70% of your
total travelling costs. Example: if your
ticket costs 400 euro we will reimburse
280 euro.
The address of the accommodation where
the training will take place is:
“Līčkalni”, Līgatnes pagasts,
Cēsu rajons, LV 4108
Latvia
It is a guesthouse 70 km from Riga.
Read more:
http://www.lickalni.viss.lv
5. PRACTICAL ISSUES
What to bring
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- Towel
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- Sleeping bag (for –4
°C)
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- Warm clothes for outdoor & indoor
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- Backpack
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- Good walking shoes
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- Medicines
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- Passport or other official
identification
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- Copies of your passport, insurance and
travel tickets.
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- Presentation of your country and
organisation, aims, target group,
activities, etc. on an A3 paper.
Medicines, allergies and diet
If you have any illnesses and/or use
medicine, we need to know about, please tell
us so.
If you are a vegetarian, or have a special
diet, let us know, indicating what you
cannot or do not want to eat, and what you
CAN eat, so that we can arrange suitable
food.
There are many ticks in Latvia. We suggest
you get vaccinated to protect yourself.
Please take care about your insurance.
Arrivals
Please contact your national group leaders
about travelling to Riga. We ask you to
arrive on the dates given above.
Please give your arrival times earlier, so
that we can arrange to meet you at the
Airport.
There will be a bus to take all
participants from Riga to Līgatne.
Organiser contacts
If you have any questions, please contact
us:
Email:
inese.riezniece@gmail.com
Phone: +371 29 166 279
Attachment 1
APPLICATION FORM SYNERGY GROUP
Exchanges for youth leaders 2006
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ATTACHMENT 2
TRAINING METHOD of the Olde Vechte Synergy
Group
Learning to play, playing to learn
Learning by experience, outdoor training,
and theatre plays are working methods which
all have one thing in common: playing.
Playing allows us to access a state of
freedom, creativity and exploration that is
associated with the natural learning of
childhood. Role-plays, structured
experiments, simulation, and theatre are
examples of games with experiential learning
opportunities. Games can create a play
frame, which makes the act of learning a
dynamic and enjoyable process, which recalls
the carefree playing time of childhood.
Experiential activities can transform
learning into adventure. Learning in this
way is an emotional, physical as well as a
cognitive experience. Movement and feelings
stimulate the learning process. Playing
involves both mind and body and can provoke
an emotional response during the exercises.
The exercises are designed to use social
skills and make clear / illustrate concepts
and theories. Almost any topic can be
explored through games. Learning processes
that involve the development of skills and
behavioural change, such as group dynamics,
communication, leadership, problem solving,
teamwork, coaching, co-operation and
decision-making are very suitable for
gaming.
Gaming is a working method, which might
create a paradoxical situation in which
participants or a group might loose
themselves. The objective of using gaming in
this kind of training is to get more
knowledge and skills to work with groups in
the field of youth work and social work.
Although this working method may seem
enjoyable, it is not "only a game". It
allows the players to use the freedom to
experiment with new approaches and new
behaviour and to acquire skills and
knowledge. The players are asked to look at
how they behave in the play. Therefore
feedback and reflection are an essential
part in this way of working. Playing games
as a tool for learning is a serious play or
'playful seriousness'.
The Olde Vechte Foundation has developed
this working method in a specific way. Since
the founding of the "Olde Vechte" foundation
in 1966 we have used a group accommodation
for the training- and education activities.
Working with groups in a hostel situation
has been a part of the working method.
Our training method is based on learning by
experience in our approach. We invite
participants to point out where they find
themselves at that moment in the learning
process, what they want to learn and how
they want to develop themselves. It is
focused on the experience of the individual
and it is connected to the specific needs
and the level of learning of the participant
at that moment. The programme is a tool for
the participant and not the other way
around. No matter how logical this may
sound, in many formal learning situations
the usual form of acquiring knowledge is
'learning from lessons'. The knowledge
should be reproduced / copied by the
student, without any personal interaction.
'Learning by experience' is different since
it starts from the person him/ herself,
his/her behaviour, reactions and emotions.
This method is often used in youth work and
informal education. In addition, more and
more this method is used in formal education
and trainings for companies.
The way, in
which we like to organise and perform this
international training, means that main
objectives of the training have to be clear
to the participants, as well as the outlines
of the programme and the target group. In
this way, we create a playing field for
participants and trainers where we can play
to learn and learn to play.
Within the given group, you participate in
the training for yourself and with yourself
as an individual. The exercises (called
‘processes’ in our training context) will be
done alternately alone, in pairs or in a
group. The trainer will prepare the ground
by giving plenary lectures. Some processes
may involve talking, others listening or
visualising certain thoughts with your eyes
closed. Exercises will be provided in
combination with music, dance or play. Many
processes will contain an element of
surprise, the exact nature of which is
unknown in advance. In a way questions can
only be answered by the participant him/
herself, namely by experiencing his own
reactions.
With this training approach, there is room
for the experiences and wishes of the
participants to influence the content of the
programme while it is taking place. We
create the playing field the participants
make the play.
ATTACHMENT 3: DETAILED PROGRAMME
(concept)
Part 1.
THE TRAINING
The 1st day:
1.
Team meeting
08.30
2.
Welcome
10.00
3.
Introduction with accommodation
place 10.00
4.
Notebooks
10.10
5.
Questions
10.15
6.
Ground rules
10.25
7.
Introduction of
participants 10.50
8.
Information about the training
11.50
9.
Lunch
12.05
10.
List of tools and circle of
knowledge 14.00
11.
Making
CT-groups
14.50
12.
First meeting with your
CT-group 15.20
13.
Cleaning
list
16.00
Dinner
18.00
14.
Focus
20.00
15.
Observation
20.25
16.
The Rosebush
21.20
Break
21.45
17.
Second meeting
CT-groups 21.00
18.
Feedback lecture
22.00
19.
Closing
22.30
20.
Meeting with team
The 2nd day:
1.
Piece of
Art
09.30
2.
TC-meeting
10.30
3.
Get in
shape
11.15
Lunch
12.30
4.
Synergy
13.30
5.
Successes of
synergy
16.30
Dinner
18.00
6.
Cooperation link of Synergy
19.30
7.
Learning
goals
21.45
8.
Closing
24.00
The 3rd day:
Breakfast
08.30
1.
On
purpose
09.30
2.
Trust (Holy Herma)
10.00
3.
Openness
11.00
Lunch
12.30
4.
CT
meeting
13.30
5.
Prepare
Limelight
14.50
6.
Performing Limelight
15.30
7.
Challenge
Dinner
18.00
8.
CT
meeting
20.00
9.
Euro for
me
20.45
10.
CT meeting (sharing about game)
22.30
11.
Closing
23.00
12.
Team
meeting
23.15
Part 2. THE
EXCHANGE
The 4th day:
Breakfast 08.30
1.
On purpose
09.30
2.
Communication style
introduction 09.45
3.
Three situations out of your life
09.50
4.
The
test
09.55
5.
Schedule
10.15
6.
Demonstration
10.30
Promoter style
10.30
Controller style
10.34
Supporter style
10.38
Analyzer style
10.42
7.
Put the test in the
schedule 10.46
8.
First theoretical background
11.00
9.
The four sides of
communication 11.45
10.
The roundabout
12.00
Lunch
12.45
11.
Schedule with the sub-styles
14.00
12.
Explanation of styles
14.10
Analyzer style
14.20
Supporter style
14.30
Controller style
14.40
Promoter style
14.50
13.
Greeting in four different styles
15.00
14.
CT meeting
15.20
15.
Looking at the three situation
15.20
Break
15.30
16.
Introduction workshops
16.00
17.
Individual focus
assignment 16.10
18.
Quality time (buying & selling)
16.20
19.
Composing your dream team
16.35
20.
Teams choose there co trainer
17.20
21.
Start preparation
17.25
Dinner 18.00
22.
Evening for making
activity 19.30
The 5th day:
The 6th day:
The 7th day:
Part 3. – THE OUTDOOR
The 8th day:
Breakfast
09.00
1.
Some free time
Lunch
12.00
2.
Composing the out door
teams 13.00
3.
Rest of group workshops outdoor
13.00
Workshop Ropes
13.15
Workshop Safety
13.15
Workshop first aid
13.15
4.
Time to meet your
team 14.30
5.
Team building
time 14.45
6.
Question
time
15.30
7.
Team
meeting 15.40
8.
Question
time
16.30
9.
Team
meeting 16.40
Dinner
18.00
10.
Question
time
19.30
11.
Team
meeting
19.40
12.
Preparation
The 9th day:
Cultural day in the Latvia.
Part 3.
OUTDOOR
The 10th day:
1.
Start
2.
Team
building
3.
travel
4.
First
post
5.
travel
6.
Second
post
7.
Third
post
8.
Travel
9.
Set up a Bivouac
The 11th day:
1.
First post of the
day
2.
Walking and compass
3.
Closing the first
post
4.
Second
post
5.
Go to
6.
Third
post
7.
travel
8.
Fourth
post
9.
Bivouac
The 12th Day:
1.
Return to the Līčkalni
10.00
2.
Last team
assignment
10.00
3.
Entering the building the Līčkalni
11.00
Dinner
12.30
4.
Reflection 7 mistakes
14.30
5.
Reflection 7 mistakes of the team
15.15
6.
Your three
successes 16.00
7.
CT- group
meeting
16.30
Food
18.00
8.
Looking back with picture
presentation 19.30
9.
The lessons we have
learned 20.30
10.
Tjing Tjing Tjao
21.30
11.
Closing
22.30
Part 4. – THE CLOSING
The 13th day: OPEN DAY
1.
Preparation for Open day
10.00
2.
meeting guests and prersentation
11.00
Lunch
12.00
3.
Open day
activities
13.30
Dinner 18.00
4.
On
purpose
19.30
5.
Introduction of the last
part 19.45
6.
Walk of
success
20.00
7.
Sharing success
8.
CT-meeting: lessons +
garbage 20.30
9.
2 CT-groups: garbage
cleaning 20.50
10.
What did you learn from
me? 21.15
11.
Anchor assignment Love
day 22.45
12.
Closing
23.00
The 14th day:
LOVE
day
1.
On
purpose
10.00
2.
Preparing
symbols 10.15
Lunch
12.30
3.
Sharing by co-trainers
14.00
4.
Closing with your CT-group
14.20
5.
Giving symbols
14.45
6.
Closing
song:
17.30
Dinner 18.00
7.
You are
beautiful
20.30
8.
Last
song:
22.30
9.
Farewell
party 22.45