Invited guests of Gamechangers Fest "The two days of Gamechangers Fest in Saint Petersburg were really amazing from many perspectives. First of all, as a youth worker I was very interested to get an overview about new educational games and methods that are used by other specialists in the sphere of non-formal education. Also, it … Continue reading The #Gamechangers BalticsRussia experience
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MessageWear (MW) 2019 was a follow-up project based in the collaboration between Shokkin Group and Tallinn Youth centres (Kesklinna, Lasnamäe, Põhja-Tallinn, Mustamäe and Kristiine). Every partner organisation created a small MW team consisting of a youth leader and youngsters. During the project we managed to make cooperation between youth from different districts of our city, … Continue reading MessageWear | End of the project
What a nice thing it was to prolong the summer by going to Italy in the middle of November to participate in "Upgrade My NGO". Not only because it was much warmer in Italy than in Estonia, but also because this training course felt like being at home with all those amazing people. By those … Continue reading The shining feeling of “Upgrade My NGO” | November 2019 in Italy
During the period 9th to11th of December, we hosted the final evaluation meeting of the "Critical escape" project in Tallinn. The KA2 project is coming to an end and the final meeting of the Awesome people team from Sweden and Shokkin Group Estonia team was definitely needed. During the 3 days together we worked closely … Continue reading Critical Escape | Final meeting
The 5th (and last!) edition of our Shokkin Kamp took place in a new place for us, EELK Laagrikeskus Talu, in the beginning of December 2019. Participants arrived to the venue in the morning of Saturday 7th and had some time to explore the new territory. There we found many interesting things there such as a … Continue reading Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act! VOL.5 – Review
"Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act!“ is a local ESC solidarity project implemented by Shokkin Group Estonia, funded by the European Solidarity Corps and supported by the Estonian National Agency Noorteagentuur and Tallinna Spordi ja Noorsooamet. The project consists of five 24-hour events which involve youngsters aged 16-24 from Estonia. The 4th edition (and almost last!) … Continue reading Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act! VOL.4 – Review
“COACH‘EM: Discovering Youth Coaching” was an international Erasmus+ Training Course organized by Shokkin Group Netherlands. The main activity of the project took place in Vierhouten (The Netherlands) during the period 27th September-5th October 2019. There were more than 30 participants who actively participated in the program. The objective of this project was to provide youth … Continue reading Our coaching experience in The Netherlands
"Honestly, I was not expecting this project to be THAT good! I knew it would be awesome, but it was more than awesome. Only one week, but it felt like a small-tiny-tiny chapter of your life. It is like you went out to a party, had fun and the next day you try to explain people … Continue reading Of how we became “board builders” in just a week…
This Autumn was very active for Shokkin Group Estonia, with local and international projects taking place almost every week. Let’s come back to mid-september to the project "Cooperate and Escape" with Shokkin Group Estonia and La Vibria Intercultural. The project took a place in the outskirts of Barcelona, where participants from 9 countries came together … Continue reading Cooperate and Escape: My first experience as a facilitator
I've recently been lucky enough to join #Shokkin on a training course called "Eduboards: Exploring Educational Board Games". One, it was an amazing training course, really well prepared, designed and implemented and two, the organisation is fantastic with great members, staff and an incredible amount of energy that I do not understand from where they … Continue reading Remembering “Eduboards: Exploring Educational Board Games” in Estonia