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Self-Empowerment - Workshop
I had the honor of conducting a workshop at the Teachsurfing Knowledge Sharing Festival, presenting on 'Self-Empowerment: Navigating Change and Building Resilience'. I offered insights on navigating life's challenges through change. It was a privilege to engage participants in discussions and activities, fostering an environment where they could share their experiences. Together, we explored the impact of both positive and negative changes, discovering ways to learn from these experiences while maintaining inner strength.The workshop's objective was to facilitate discussions and activities that prompted participants to reflect on their personal values and beliefs, aligning them with their goals and aspirations. The ultimate goal was to empower participants to manage change effectively, enhance emotional well-being, and cultivate a resilient mindset that propels personal growth and achievement.The event was extraordinarily successful in gathering participants from various locations and countries throughout Germany, whose different points of view enriched our discussions. The overwhelmingly positive feedback about the workshop thrilled me. Engaging participants in various activities during the session enabled them to grasp the concepts more effectively. One feedback that particularly resonated was participants expressing how they found the precise information they needed. I believe that this workshop session empowered them further, reinforcing their self-empowerment and aiding participants in navigating life's journey with confidence and success.Additionally, the Teach Surfing platform has been instrumental in expanding my knowledge on skill identification and development. It has provided valuable insights into leveraging these skills effectively. Also, it has equipped me with the ability to foster positive networking, understand diverse cultures, and share knowledge with others.
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English Master Training
I hosted this event a number of times and created a difference in my students' lives by making them confident about themselves and by helping them learn English to communicate with the world.We used fun games to inspire Speaking and remove hesitation which is a common barriers for students of most English learners۔
read more ...Dj/Musical trainer for migrants and youths
Another exiting experience of training I've been in involved in for some months was the "Djing workshop" managed by the social association "Odissea" in Lucca.The workshop was aimed at unaccompanied minor migrants mostly from sub-Saharan Africa housed in the Odyssey Cooperative's reception facility. In addition to them, other local youth and people with disabilities also participated in the course.The goal of the workshop was to attempt horizontal socialization among different categories of youth subjects through the sharing of knowledge and musical techniques related to the art of DJing.The workshop, which lasted about 3 months, turned out to be a success and culminated in a final event in which all participants made a colorful audience that had come there for the occasion dance.The methodology of the workshop was primarily based on mutual sharing of musical tastes and knowledge, this was the central tool that fostered socialization and mutual intimate knowledge among all participants who immediately blended into a compact and friendly group. Secondly, the focus was on the techniques of mixing music, through the instrumentation made available by yours truly as the course leader and teacher.In a context of social isolation in the area, the workshop was a particularly valuable moment for the boys because it put them in a position to be able to share with the outside world a part of their intimate background through music. What passed through the workshop period was thus not the simple song offered to the rest of the group but a framework of personal and collective stories, memories and affections evoked by the individual song. This allowed the cementing of a deep and lasting relationship between the participants and myself, breaking the monotony of the daily conditions of humanitarian reception in Italy.
read more ...Language/legal trainer for migrants
One of the most successful training experiences I carried out took place in Pisa during my bachelor studies.At the time I was volunteering in a local cultural center called "Circolo Agorà" which, through its library, spaces and special training courses, is active in the area for a free sharing of knowledge and skills towards disadvantaged social categories.With them I undertook in-depth training as a teacher of Italian for foreigners and as a legal desk assistant for migrants. After about three months of preparatory course I began together with other young colleagues to work as a volunteer in collective Italian classes with foreigners of all ages mainly from Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.The course that developed with the classes, having overcome initial difficulties, soon turned out to be a mutual cultural learning experience. Methodologically, together with my fellow trainers, we therefore decided to appeal to the generative cultural differences that existed in the group of students as tools for dialogue, exchange and sharing aimed at practicing the Italian language.The result was not only a fluid learning of the language outside the rigid structures of cathedratic lessons, but above all the birth of a laboratory of mutual cultural contamination where through concrete experiences (such as moments of collective cooking in which each person offered the group a typical recipe from his or her land cooked all together) friendships and bonds were created that I still cultivate today and that have helped the insertion into the local territory of the unaccompanied migrants who attended the course.
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My Story!
Hello there, I am Qassem Alhomayyer. Last year, I had the chance to get to know e-VELP, where I started the volunteer educator training. I was already at that time a trainer, but I have never created my own workshop. Whilst doing my training I’ve learned a lot about group dynamics, non-formal education and more. At the end of the training, I finished making my own concept for my first workshop.My workshop addresses men with migration backgrounds in Germany and adresses topics like Masculinity, discrimination and racism. I had the opportunity to offer my workshop within my work as a trainer.In the workshop were men with migration background. In the beginning we got to know each other. Then we talked about masculinity, about which images are spread in society about the "real man" and where such images come from.After that, we discussed about the different roles that people have in different situations and what expectations are attached to the specific roles.In the last step, we exchanged ideas about the topic of racism. Many participants shared their personal stories and experiences.I was very happy that there was a very comfortable atmosphere in the workshop. I was also very touched by the fact that the participants empowered each other when they shared their experiences with racism.That was my experience with implementing my own workshop. I currently feel empowered to offer even more workshops, exchange with people and share my knowledge with others.
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Career Development (Online Workshop for Educators) – how to use digital learning tools in the lessons
I organized online workshops for teachers from Barda, Azerbaijan, which were damaged by the war. After this time my school (European Azerbaijan School) made a project named "Seeds of Light". I have organized my trainings within the project. My workshops were about opportunities of using digital learning tools in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry lessons, new techniques, and methods in teaching. Teachers also learned how they can implement these tools to the assessment. As a digital tool, they met with Nearpod, Padlet, TedED, Google Slides, Piktochart, jeopardy LAB, CK 12, etc. Participants were from another region, therefore, they joined online training. Feedback was positive about the workshops. Indeed, I had workshops for teachers and students. Students were more than teachers. 3 Science teachers regularly joined workshops. Maybe it does not seem like a lot, but it is a good result for me because we can not find a lot of people from rural areas who know the English language, they were enthusiastic. Students were approximately 10 in trainings, they were from the same area as the teachers. One of the teachers told that I appreciate your effort, and by sharing your knowledge in this way, you shared useful information for us, and I will definitely implement these digital learning tools in my lessons.
read more ...Particularly, the evelp event lunch date.
Particularly, the evelp event lunch date, held online was intuitive and exactly what I'm interested in, an opportunity to share my knowledge and skill to in-demand persons or community.
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