FaciliForward: Skills for Youth Empowerment (2025)

Are you passionate about working with young people and want to grow as a facilitator? ✅

Do you want to explore and develop your own facilitation style to empower youth through creative, inclusive methods? ✅

Join FaciliForward: Skills for Youth Empowerment” training course, scheduled to take place in Attiki, Greece from September 24th to 29th, 2025 (including travel days).

The aim of this training course is to empower youth workers, trainers, educators and active volunteers with key facilitation competences. Participants will explore their own facilitation challenges, develop a creative toolkit, and strengthen their capacity to lead inclusive, engaging learning processes in youth work.

Objectives:

  1. Develop a better understanding of what facilitation is and the key competences required to become a youth facilitator.
  2. Offer space for participants to reflect on their personal challenges and uncertainties related to facilitation.
  3. Support participants in building their own facilitation style and creative toolkit, adaptable to various youth work contexts.
  4. Enable participants to apply and evaluate their facilitation style and tools in their organizations after the training.

🏠 Accommodation, food and travel costs will be covered by the organisers. 

Participants’ profile:

  • Youth workers, teachers, educators, facilitators, administrators of education
    programmes, active volunteers in youth organizations motivated to develop facilitation skills and apply them in local or international youth work
  • Aged 18+ and comfortable working in English
  • Committed to taking part in the entire training course and to implementing a follow-up activity afterward

Hosting organisation: ELIX Greece

Sending organisation: FECE

Please read the infopack before applying.

📅 The final deadline to apply is 15 August 2025.

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🚀 Following the training, each participant is expected to implement an activity (e.g. a workshop or session) using their developed facilitation skills. They will also be required to fill out an EU Survey for evaluation and impact reporting.

The project is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Programme.