Beyond Fear

What is Beyond Fear?

Beyond Fear Erasmus+ KA1 is a 10-day training course in Hungary for 28 youth and social workers working with refugees from 10 countries.

It is a training course and exchange of methods on how to promote constructive dialogue between migrant and local communities and help the process of inclusion, whether temporary or long-term.

What are the goals?

• Build trust and tolerance between migrants and locals.
• Gain understanding and validation of the strong feelings on both sides.
• Help to accept that migrants are in fact here.
• Change destructive and hurtful communication patterns into constructive dialogue.
• Find the values in the foreign cultures that came to our doorstep.
• Find useful and inspiring roles migrants can undertake in local communities through which social inclusion can happen naturally.

Timeframe: autumn 2019

Methods of Beyond Fear

• Outdoor experiential education as non-formal education in the outdoors.
• Art, movement art, visual expression, and storytelling as tools for expression.
• Solution focused coaching tools that help participants stay focused on their own learning goals.
• Coaching in big and small groups with good-practice sharing, networking, and innovative approaches.
• Learning by doing with young migrants and youngsters playing a leading role within their peer group.

Partners

• IYCEIP – International youth committee for educational initiatives and programs, Bulgaria
• Meraki, Croatia
• ESN Greece – Federation of Erasmus Student Network Greece, Greece
• JUMP IN, Italy
• Casa del Cuculo Società Cooperativa, Italy
• The Rising Stars, Italy
• ACTIVEYOUTH Association, Lithuania
• Internationale Arbeidsvereniging, Netherlands
• GEYC, Romania
• OCAK IZI DERNEGI, Turkey
• Center For Euroinitiatives, Ukraine
• NGO “Non-formal education for youth”, Ukraine