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WAVES
- basics for youth workers -

basic synergy training

September 30.
, ,, - October 11. 2015.
Holloko, Hungary

Quick guide

THEMES

What are the themes?
What is Waves - basics for youth workers?
What is the purpose of the TC?
Organizer
What is our training apprach?
Dates
What will you do for 10 days?
Venue
What results can you have?
Costs and reimbursement

Applying selection confirmation
What to bring?

How do I connect to people? How can I express myself

clearly?
How to support people around me?

What are the values and concepts that influence my

work and life?
How can I express my values in my daily work?
What are my patterns of thinking and acting?
What are my skills? What is my working style?
How do I handle unexpected events?

How do I participate in a team? What is my role in a

team? How can I create a team that works?
How can i involve my colleagues and my target group
in my activities? How can I empower people?
How to synchronize different goals of different people?
How can i motivate myself and others?
What is accountability?
Is there a way to do it differently? How do others do it?

How do I achieve my results? What is my impact?

How can I increase my performance?
How can I make my impact sustainable?
What is creativity? How can I create a new, different
result in my work and life?

Do you have days

when these questions keep you busy?

What is competence development?

How to integrate this approach in ERASMUS+ projects
and in local youth work?
How can this approach incease the employability of
youngsters?
How does it work? Can I do it also? How?

If YES, this TC is for you.

WAVES - basics for your workers
WAVES is a training course for youth workers, youth leaders, mentors,
coaches, trainers, facilitators of non-formal learning processes:
active in the youth and/or community work sector, using methods
of non-formal learning
wanting to improve their own personal and professional
competences, refresh their approaches and exchange practices in
order to become more effective in their work and life.
considering volunteering as a mean to the increase of
employability of their target groups
eager to learn, open to new, enjoy being a full-time participant
The TC is part of the Waves Basics for youth workers project,
focusing on the capacity building of youth NGOs in the fields of
realizing their projects and initiatives related to the improvement
of the position of young people in the labour market and in the
local communities. Hungarian participants take part of the 1-year
long capacity building project called Ngrd Y for the Future. The
TC is equivalent of the registered adult education course called
letmuhely If you are a Hungarian applicant, please check our
webpage for further details, information and conditions.

Countries: Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece,

Lithuania, Jordan, Romania, Turkey and Hungary
Age: 18+

PURPOSE OF THE TC

To improve your competences as a youth worker in order to become more efficient in your
work and life and create your desired impact:

skills improvement of youth workers in handling social and cultural differences,

cooperation, teamwork, responsibility, communication, trust, openness, listening,
self-expression, initiative, creativity, handling unexpected events, motivation,
expressing values in action
improvement of staff competences related to volunteer management in youth
NGOs
creating the base and providing info for future networking and the creation of
common projects within the ERASMUS+ Programme

Waves is an individual training, done in a group context, having a strong focus on the
development of your personal skills and awareness.
We will shortly deal with the WHAT in general, in order to have a common base. We
put a lot more focus on the WHO, and on exploring and practising the HOW. We
switch focus from general knowledge to YOUR OWN unique composition of specific
personal skills and values.

TRAINING APPROACH

By training we mean: constant action and practicing in an accumulative cycle of

learning like sportspeople do: exercising, reflecting upon, evaluating and building
on the outcome, working with specific questions and answers coming from you. We
add new techniques to the ones we already have and practice, practice, practice until
we acquire the action as a skill.
The trainers and the facilitators create the frame and support your learning process
by questions, explanations, and a variety of activities which all provide a unique event
your role is to take part, go for the challenges, enjoy, and learn.
The program contains a full basic synergy training. It is a training program to raise
personal awareness and intensively improve personal competences. Going through
this sequence you will improve your own skills, while by experience you understand
how the approach works. Extra program parts are included to give you space to
work onhow you can integrate this approach in your work and to facilitate future
cooperation.
The TC is designed as one whole process, both on individual and group levels.
Participation from the beginning till the end, in each part is essential in order that
each individual and the whole group gets the maximum out of it. For this purpose,
it is not allowed to come later, leave earlier or miss program parts.Please consider
this when you apply are you ready and willing to invest this time fully in your
development?
The program and the method have been developed by a group of trainers and youth
workers of the network International Synergy Group, guided by experts of the Olde
Vechte Foundation (NL). It is being delivered all over Europe, constantly shaped and
updated over the past 12 years. Egyesek adds the expertise of 17 years of local youth
work, international youth projects and networking.

We will use a wide variety of program elements:

LEARNING QUESTIONS
each one of you will set a
learning question for yourselves.
It will be a question that helps
you to work on the improvement
of a skill a practical action
that expresses a value that
is important for you. 4 of the
8 key competences will be
taken as example: learning to
learn will give the frame of the
process, and 3 others - cultural
awareness and expression,
social and civic competences,
initiative & enterpreneurship
will be areas from which you
are free to choose according to
your own needs and interests.
Every day you will work with
your learning question, assess
your progress and set your daily
focus in it.

DEBRIEFINGS AND SHARINGS

they are facilitated small- and big group discussions,
that follow the learning processes. This is the time
when you reflect on your experiences, listen to the
reflection of the others, come to your conclusions,
raise questions and have an opportunity to clarify,
realise, understand to complete your learning.

LEARNING PROCESSES
they are individual, couple,
small- and big group exercises
and assignments (groups
re-mixed each time) built on
methods from outdoor, dance,
drama, music and creative
art. Some of them you might
experience as playful, while
others as deep and serious.
While you fulfil the assignments,
you work on your personal
learning question and you go
through and intensive individual
and group process. In these
processes you can observe
yourself and your relationship
to the world, become aware
of things you mostly do
automatically and their result,
and experiment with new ways
of handling.

DIALOGUE GROUPS
in these groups you will support each other in
your personal progress, and share experiences. A
facilitator will support you in your daily meetings.
This way you have a daily opportunity to assess and
shape your progress, receive support and practice
supporting each other

PRESENTATIONS, EXPLANATIONS
their function is to serve you to understand the
context, to offer a point of view, to share learning
techniques and best practices, to give theory and
and to support the group in your progress.

WHAT WILL WE DO FOR 10 DAYS?

Arrival day: September 30, 2015

Day
0

Days
4-5

You arrive, settle in the house and make yourselves

home. We do registration, brief you about the house
and the surroundings. It is important that after your journeys you take a good rest before the program starts.

These days we will connect the themes of the TC to

volunteer management on the practical level. We
will look at how competence development can be
focused in volunteering, how we can plan personal
and group learning within projects, while the quality
and efficiency of our work remains or increases,
and share best practices. This will be the time when
you can start networking, drafting up project ideas,
mapping opportunities for further cooperation. We
will do it in the form of an exciting group assignment,
resembling volunteer activities, in which each
participant will have a specific role, according to
what is your learning question. Do not expect being
provided, given, fed, told, informed you will be the
creator of your learning.

Introduction

Day
1

We introduce participants, trainers, voluntees,

and give detailed information on the program
and training methods. We will lay the base of our
cooperation by setting the ground rules of the TC.
We create the dialogue groups, where members will
support each others learning all through the TC.
We start working with the themes of the TC: by a
sequence of light group exercises we test how we
create our thoughts and how we handle concepts
and pre-judgements.

Outdoor training

Days
6-7-8

We introduce the competence improvement process:

creativity as a way of learning, key competences,
and we set our individual learning questions to
work on.

Days
2-3

Day
10

Making it practical

You will spend 2 full days and 2 full nights full of

adventure and surprises, with your group in nature,
outside the training venue. You will fulfil advancedlevel group assignments and challenges, practicing
your skills, facing your own results. Real, live
experience of using what you have learned so far,
transferring your knowledge and activating your
skills in new circumstances. When you return, we will
spend time with understanding the experience and
identifying your learning outcomes.

Exploring our patterns of thinking and behavior and

their infuence on our lives
These days are built like a rollercoaster an
intensive sequence of activities, to experiement with
individual working styles, how individual diversity
effect cooperation, trust, self-expression, seeing
opportunities, what is responsibility and how we
handle challenges. Expect being inside and outside,
alone and in group, silence, music and talks, ups
and downs, playfullness and seriousness, questions,
insights and more questions. Expect being busy and
investing time and energy into your learning and selfreflection.

Time of understanding and planning for home

Day
9

This day there will be space to raise questions and

provide explanations needed to make your learning
process complete. We will make plans for home,
personal and professional, and there will be time to
finalise ideas for projects and future cooperation,
started up on days 4-5. In the evening we will work
with the theme of motivation and how you can keep
it up on the long run.

Evaluation, closing
This day we will do the evaluation of the TC in several forms, written and spoken. After identifying your results, learning
points and outcomes int he context of your learning questions, you will fill in your own YouthPass Certificates and
evaluation forms.
We will spend the afternoon and the evening with closing the TC among each other personally and in the group, saying
thank you and celebrating our results.

Time schedule:
8:00 9:00
Breakfast
9:30 12:45
Program
13:00 14:00
Lunch
14:30 17:45
Program
18:00 19:00
Dinner
19:30 22:00
Program
WHAT RESULTS CAN YOU HAVE?
At the end of the TC you can
recognise your own thinking and the impact of your behaviour better
see more opportunities
choose your reaction, initiate, act proactively in unexpected and intense situations
express personal and European values through personal action
practice inclusion and responsibility on the daily level
improve your performance in working with volunteers as a team member, mentor or leader in local
and international projects motivate yourself and others
enjoy interaction
create the impact you want to have
initiate future projects and partnerships
basic understanding of the idea of competence development and its methodological approach
Based on all this, you will be able to create your own personal and professional COMPETENCE PORTFOLIO.
Find the course description HERE.

Egyesek Youth Association is one of the leading independent youth NGOs in Hungary, member of the
informal network called International Synergy Group and several other worldwide networks. Egyesek
has 17 years of experience in local-level, grassroot youth and community work, and in designing,
guiding and organising non-formal learning projects, such as community service, exchanges,
volunteering, internship programs, training courses and workshops.

ORGANIZER

The program will be guided by Krisztina Gyory, youth worker, personal development trainer and
coach, creator of 2 NGOs and an international network, with 17 years of experience in trainings and
23 years in multicultural projects. She will be assisted by an international team of volunteers.

For more info about Egyesek and our activities, check our website and follow us on social media!

DATES
Arrivals and departures:
We are asking you to arrive on the date given above, to BUDAPEST!
We organise a common bus for you from Budapest to Holloko and
the way back from Holloko to Budapest.

Arrival day (to Budapest)

End of the program (in Holloko)

Start of the program (in Holloko)

We expect you to participate on the whole program!

(It means coming later or leaving earlier is not allowed!)

September 30, 2015

19.30

September 30, 2015

22.00

October 10, 2015

Departure day

October 11, 2015

If you arrive 1-2 days earlier or leave later, please arrange your own accommodation for the extra time. A trip to Budapest or other touristic
venues of Hungary is NOT part of the program. If you would like to visit these places, arrange your travel in a way that you can do it before
or after these dates and be aware that it is not supported by the Erasmus+ grant.

VENUE

The TC will be in Holloko the countryside of Hungary, 100km from Budapest. The village is situated in
the north of Hungary and it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage. During the program you will see the
surroundings: the Cserht Hills and the villages of Palc culture.
The accomodation and the program will be in the youth training center Creative Space. There are bedrooms
for 4-6 with separate shower and toilette each. We have wireless internet, with limited access. There is NO
washing machine.
The house and the garden is rented as a whole for the time of the TC, in order to have it as a home for you
and to have the full privacy of the group. Light housework will be done by the group as well a daily cleaning,
keeping the house tidy, and the cleaning of your own rooms.
Only bedsheets and pillows with cover are provied. Please bring your own towels and sleeping bags you
need sleeping bags in the outdoor training anyway.
1 blanket with cover + 1 towel can be rented: 10/person
Sleeping bags can also be rented: 10/sleeping bag
Camping matress can also be rented : 10/matress
Creative Space has a limited number of sleeping bags, not enough for a whole group. If you need one, let us
know in advance in your application form, we will inform you whether we can provide you one or not.

COSTS

Egyesek covers the following costs:

accommodation
food
the costs of the program
100% of the travel costs of foreign participants, up to the limit (see below)
visa costs (if you have an invoice from it!)

Participants cover the following costs:
The rest of your travel costs from your living place to the program venue.
Your own insurance
Participants contribution: 80to be paid in cash in on arrival.
We organise a common bus for you from Budapest to Holloko onthe arrival day and after the end of the
training from Holloko to Budapest. It costs 2000 HUF, and this you have to pay on arrival in HUF. It is sligthly
cheaper and more comfortable than public transport.

Country

No. of participants

Limit on travel cost in

Armenia

360

Bulgaria

275

Czech Republic

180

Georgia

360

Greece

275

Jordan

360

Lithuania

275

Romania

180

Turkey

275

Hungary

The procedure and the conditions of the reimbursement are

described here.
Please read it carefully and if you have questions, contact us in
advance.
Amounts given are for return tickets between your place of living
and Holloko. The amount of your reimbursement will be calculated
based on the distance between you legal address and the venue of
the program.The limit can be less then the amounts indicated above
but not more.

We reimburse public transport tickets and taxi costs from Budapest

or from cities where you change transportation only if they fit into
your limit and you bring invoices.

APPLICATION - SELECTION - CONFIRMATION

Deadline: September 15, 2015
Find the application form here.

If you have any other questions, contact us the

following email address:

waves.basic@gmail.com

Selection will be done and confirmation will be sent by 15th September 2015.
The ones not selected in the first round will be onthe waiting list and as soon as there is an empty place we will contact them.
We will take care that the age, gender and intercultural diversity of the group is ensured.
Do not buy your tickets till you get the confirmation letter!
If you are selected for the training you will receive a confirmation letter. If you have received this letter you can start arranging your travel.
n the letter you will also receive the travel information and a list of things you need to bring with you.
After you received the confirmation letter you can arrange your travel. Your registration is final when you arranged your travel and send us
your arrival and departure times for the training.
Take care that you arrive before the start and leave after the end of the program. Arrival or departure after or before the program times of the
training is not accepted. The training is a whole, including its start and closing.

WHAT TO BRING?
In case you were confirmed and
you are coming to the exchange,
there are certain things to bring.
There are certain clothes we ask
you to bring with you for your
physical safety, personal hygiene
of yourself and the other members
of the group.

Casual warm and sport clothes for outdoor and indoor activities
Backpack or smaller bag
Raincoat
Waterproof outdoor shoes
Camping mattress
Sleeping bag that is suitable up to -5 degrees. You will need the sleeping

bag for sleeping in the house too, there are no sheets provided in the house.
Towels
Your own medicines
Documents

passport or other official ID

all original invoices and tickets

insurance or your E111 card

Hungarians: TB card

bank account data

We are
looking forward
to see you
in Hungary!
Egyesek Youth Association