This year Shokkin Group received the award of “Tallinn’s Youth Organization of 2020”. In a year of uncertainty, safety measures against the Covid-19 pandemic and barely any physical meetings, Shokkin members and team still found the space to be creative and discover new approaches to projects, meetings and events, which led to the implementation of different … Continue reading Shokkin Group: Tallinn’s Youth Organization of 2020
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"Back at the beginning of February, I was provided with the very ‘hand opening’ opportunity to develop my graphic facilitation skills by one of the most interesting Youth NGO’s in all of Estonia, if not the Baltics: Shokkin Group. Now, when it comes to drawing, visuals, art or just decent handwriting, I am what you … Continue reading The graphic facilitation journey: #MARKERS2020
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
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
Places: 3 participants Venue: Estonia (venue to be confirmed) Hosting organization: Shokkin Group Estonia Project Dates: 2nd to 6th of March 2020 Deadline to fill in the application form: 28th of February 2020 Description "GAMIFY" will be an international Erasmus+ training course organized by Shokkin Group Estonia in the frame of the long-term Strategic Partnership project "Game On: Developing … Continue reading [COMPLETE] Training Course “GAMIFY” (Estonia)
Venue: Saint Petersburg (Russia) Dates: 15th and 16th of February 2020 Deadline to submit application form: 5th February 2020 Description "Gamechangers" is a long-term educational programme for educators and youth workers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia which aims to provide its participants with competencies for designing and developing their own educational games and with practical knowledge … Continue reading [COMPLETE] “Gamechangers Fest” in Saint Petersburg (Russia)
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
Places: 3 participants Venue: Ecological Scout Centre Kaprálův Mlýn (Czech Republic) Hosting organization: Be International Project Dates: 11th-20th March 2020 Deadline to send application form: 20th February 2020 Description "Radical Escape" is a training course that aims to enable youth workers to strengthen preventative measures against radicalication of young people through the use of educational concepts based on … Continue reading [COMPLETE] Training Course “Radical Escape” (Czech Republic)
“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…