In the beginning of September, the Shokkin team had an opportunity to be part of the Contact Making Event "Connecting People, Organizations, Communities, Europe" in Finland. As one of the organisations from 13 (!) different countries, we could present ourselves and look for new partners for upcoming projects. The meeting was amazingly facilitated by Pavel … Continue reading Experience CME: “Connecting People, Organizations, Communities, Europe” in Turku (Finland)
Category: Experiences
Reviews of local/international projects
My goal was to dive deeper into the structure of youth work and understand how this system works, not only in Estonia, but also in other countries. "The aim of the long-term capacity-building project "UPGRADE" is to exchange experiences in working with youth, the creation of new ideas for improving the effectiveness of youth work, as … Continue reading Shokkin experience in “UPGRADE”
"Have you ever considered becoming an incredible youth leader? If yes, ‘Lead It like You Mean It’ has to be a ‘must’ project in your to do list! Recently I was lucky enough to become a part of an inspiring and extremely motivating Erasmus+ training course held in Brandbu, Norway by Shokkin Group Norge and Shokkin … Continue reading “Lead it Like You Mean It” – Training Course Experience
Shokkin Kamp vol. 2 is over! We have spent an amazing time with youngsters in Paluhõhja Looduskool. The topic of this kamp was aimed at learning about environmental protection and ecology. Together with Liis and Jegor, the participants had a chance to go deeply into questions associated with defining different ecological problems that appear in … Continue reading Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act! VOL.2 – Review
The middle of May brought some beautiful weather along with a group of 23 great youth workers from 8 different countries to Vihi, Estonia. They came for a training course named “Createamity” that aimed to develop competencies of youth workers and leaders to use game-based learning and specifically escape quests in an educational context. It … Continue reading CREATEAMITY: Educational Escape Rooms back home
From 3rd to 10th June, I took part in the training course "Strategic PartnerSHIP" in Örebro (Sweden) as a Shokkin Group Estonia participant. This project's main aim was to increase the level of involvement of small youth organizations in cross-sectorial strategic partnership projects. During this time we learned about different types of KA2 projects, their … Continue reading My sailing experience at “Strategic PartnerSHIP: How to Make it Float”
Our project Critical Escape has been underway now for many months, so let us introduce the rooms that we have created! When we started to brainstorm the topics, we mapped the most common social problems among the youth in Estonia. We involved social workers and youth workers, as well as active members of the community … Continue reading Critical Escape Update: Our rooms!
Places: 20 participants Venue: Palupõhja looduskool Dates: 30.07 and 31.07.2019 Deadline to fill in participation form: 25th July 2019 Description A "Shokkin Kamp" is a 24-hour youth event where young people come together in a non-formal learning environment with sessions on a specific topics, group building activities, project idea challenge and socializing time in a friendly and open … Continue reading [LOCAL] Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act! VOL.2
I would like to say that participation in "Upgrade" training course in general is very interesting and useful to me. So was also the first part, what we attended in May in Tbilisi. For me each day brought something positive and as I am a youth worker, then it was so inspiring to communicate with … Continue reading First training mobility of “UPGRADE” in Tbilisi (Georgia)
The transnational youth initiative has been running for 9 months now. In this time we have created two and a half escape rooms, game-mastered around 20 escape games and visited several youth centers, as well as participated in the Tallinn Old Town Days. And the project is not nearly over; we are at a place … Continue reading Critical Escape Blog: Update nº5