Last May, five lucky participants of the Critical Escape project were able to escape from their life routine to Sweden, to be concrete to a beautiful town in the very heart of Sweden: Örebro. The aim of this trip was to share updates on ready escape rooms of both partners (a very important step of … Continue reading Critical Escape meeting with partners Vol. 2, Sweden, May 2019.
Category: Experiences
Reviews of local/international projects
"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. The project consists of five 24-hour events which involve youngsters aged 16-24 from Estonia. The first Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act Vol.1 event, … Continue reading Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act Vol.1
I am part of several organisations that with different hindrances holding back either members from being more active, their services underused, long-term aims unreachable or current processes flawed. Initially my main reason to take part of the TC “Impactor” was to eventually make my own local project idea come true within my sending organization, but … Continue reading Experience: Enhancing the local impact of NGOs at “IMPACTOR”
“We Are All Timebankers” youth exchange took place in Pontevedra (Spain) from 8th until 16th of May, 2019. During this time, we learned a lot about timebank basics, performed lots of workshops and played games that were not only fun and interesting, but were an educational source. It was the very first project of mine, … Continue reading #TIIIIIIIIME…. BANKERS! Our experience in Pontevedra (Spain)
The training course “Digibox: Enriching Youth workers Digital Toolboxes for Involvement” took place from 28.04 - 05.05 in Trabzon (Turkey). The project was focused on the study of new digital tools and their use in educational processes with young people. During the project we had many different sessions and activities, some of which I really want … Continue reading Exploring new digital tools in youth work at #DigiboxTC (Turkey)
What does perfection mean to you? In April we experienced this in beautiful Scanzano Jonico, Italy. Lovely sunny weather, seaside, sunsets and sunrises, amazing accommodation in a 4-star hotel with pool, tasty Italian food, unlimited amount of sweet juicy oranges, like-minded people around and learning something new every day on topics we were passionate about … Continue reading Experience review: “Visual Dreamers” and the magic of graphic facilitation
Recently, I’ve been lucky enough to take part in ‘European Activist Factory’, a project organised by Shokkin Group International. It was held in Vihi (Estonia) and it was my first project in my home country. Never before had I participated in any Estonian projects, to be honest I did not even know what Vihi was! … Continue reading The #ActivistFactory effect. “European Activist Factory” Part I
From 22nd to 24th of March, 14 youngsters came together to practice their English skills and to learn more about the art of storytelling. The two groups of participants were from Tallinn Linnamäe Russian Lyceum and Tamsalu Gymnasium, where the youth meeting was held. During these three days the youngsters worked on various aspects of … Continue reading Noortekohtumised “Stories of a Generation”
In the beginning of February Anna, one of our members in Shokkin Group Estonia had the chance to take part in one week training in Germany from the Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg. “The qualification concept of Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg is focused on the personal development of every individual by strengthening their social skills, the willingness to take responsibility and the … Continue reading Hello from winter with Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg!
The team of Critical Escape in Shokkin Group has been working on building portable educational escape rooms for a while now. We have been getting on nicely - after some thorough research and brainstorming, the two main topics of the rooms have been chosen and story lines written. The first team works on the topic … Continue reading Critical Escape: Update nº3