michael kimmig

Developing Intercultural Awareness and Competence

Youth Projects 101 [Val Vesa via unsplash]

International Youth Work

International Youth Projects 101: Organising Youth Exchanges

Organising international youth projects is not a mission impossible. Bringing together your idea, some basic knowledge about project management and the regulations of a funding programme enables youth leaders, youth and social workers, teachers as well as young people to prepare for international youth exchanges, youth initiatives or seminar and training events. Read more

Ruth C Cohn - Das Konzept der Themenzentrierten Interaktion (TZI)

Learning & Development

Pioniere der pädagogischen Gruppenarbeit. Ruth C. Cohn und das Konzept der Themenzentrierten Interaktion (TZI)

In der Arbeit mit und in Gruppen besteht themenzentriertes Arbeiten im Wesentlichen darin, das im Mittelpunkt stehende Thema und die Interaktion der Gruppenmitglieder so aufeinander zu beziehen, dass persönliches Wachstum in einem gemeinsamen Prozess lebendigen Lernens ermöglicht und gefördert wird. Das Konzept der Themenzentrierten Interaktion bietet dazu einen geeigneten pädagogischen Rahmen. Read more

How to talk about war [Cover design by Dagna Gmitrowicz]

International Youth Work

How to talk about war. Facilitating learning in the face of crisis

“How to talk about war” is about how to face crisis situations and make it a topic in non-formal education events, especially if you work with interculturally mixed and transnational groups. Together with Dagna Gmitrowicz and Marta Brzezińska-Hubert we tried out and put together various ways to bring the topic of war to non-formal education and search mutually for ways to handle it within our workshops, seminars and training courses. This small publication is a work-in-progress and an attempt to find first answers and practical ways to talk about war in a non-formal setting. Read more

Psychological First Aid [Maksym Kaharlytskyi via unsplash]

Learning & Development

Look – Listen – Link | Psychological First Aid

Look – Listen – Link – a way to provide psychological first aid (PFA) – is not something that can be done only by professionals. Everyone of us can meet someone who experienced an extremely distressing event: a car accident or fire, an act of violence, a major disaster, an act of war. PFA aims at ensuring feeling safe and connected to others, providing access to support and encouraging self-help of individuals and communities. Read more