"Creative, educative and very interesting project Play Station took place from 26.10-04.11 in Brussels, Belgium. This was really amazing experience in all possible ways - we got very deep into gamification theme, played a lot of exciting games and learned new techniques of non-formal education by these creative activities. There was also enough theory that … Continue reading Play Station: our gaming experience in Belgium
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Reviews of local/international projects
On 3rd and 4th of November, we held our first local training weekend at Paekalda Puhkekeskus named “Leader’s Factory”. Ever since the restructuring of the organization, we had been planning different local activities where all new members of the organization and young people from Tallinn could gather to get to know one another, learn about … Continue reading Leaders Factory: an inspirational weekend
During this week in Rustavi Scouts Centre we discovered the topics of radicalization, extremism and what to do to prevent them from taking over our society. It was an amazingly thorough training course full of practical exercises as well as creating educational escape rooms to raise awareness on social problems connected to radicalization. We were … Continue reading Finding our way out in Georgia: Escape Radicalization
"From August 9th to 19th, young people from Estonia, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Italy came together in beautiful A Coruña (Spain) to learn more about the art of storytelling and what importance it carries throughout our lives. During the project they collaborated with local Galician elderly who were happy to share their life experiences … Continue reading “Back 2 the Future”: The best project I have been to
"One day, during an unusually hot summer day in Estonia, I got an email from Shokkin Group. I had never heard of the organization before, and as the email seemed rather appealing, I decided to read it right away. It turned out that they were looking for participants in three different training courses. They all … Continue reading Experience: Rediscovering games in “Game Zone” (Malta)
Last September, Shokkin Group sent three young enthusiasts from Estonia -Greete, Helen and Kasper- to take part in an Erasmus+ training course in Georgia to learn more about getting better visibility for youth organisations, including creating appealing visuals and sharing best practices about social media strategies. The first day was full of energy and exciting … Continue reading Experience:“Show Up! Best practices of Increasing Visibility of Youth Work” in Kobuleti, Georgia
Cooperation strengthens with every new physical meeting and we had a great opportunity to host Jadyra from the Institute for Youth Development in Tallinn. Jadyra came for her study visit to Shokkin Group for 7 days to discover our game-based learning approach, get insights into the youth work context in Tallinn and continue working on … Continue reading Hosting the second part of #Prospects4Youth @ Tallinn
This August brought Shokkin Group's team one of the biggest events that we have ever done locally, which was to create and lead our own camp theme for a week. It has been a collaboration with Ole Lukoe Laagrid, who cooperates with us since its beginning. We are very glad to have such great friends … Continue reading Shokkin shift @ Olelukoe Camp 2018!
Quite a lot of things around us could have a second life. Some of them can be turned into a great number of things, including musical instruments. For the second upcycle project we gathered a group of people with skills and experiences ranging from ability to play multiple musical instruments to being good at making … Continue reading Upcycle Your Life – Vol. 2 in Leipzig (Germany)
Hi, dear friend! Let me bring you to the worldwide adventure called “international youth projects” 🙂 I personally really like to broaden my mind every day by reading books, watching videos on YouTube and being connected to people from different backgrounds discussing every topic which is interesting to talk about. But let me tell you, … Continue reading Experience: We are only humans, after all…