Welcome to NEXT STEPS - NEW LIFE

This blog was created to share some of our ideas, thoughts, inspirations and reflections we had
during a training course for trainers who are organizing and co-ordinating seminars for EVS volunteers on the topic personal development, empowerment and self-directed learning. Please feel free to explore our blog...

The participants of NEXT STEPS - NEW LIFE

Wednesday, 29 November 2006

The aims

With NEXT STEPS – NEW LIFE?! we want to improve our work as EVS-trainers in respond to the identified needs:

  • Identifying existing good practice
  • Exploring new tools / methods / approaches and their relevance for the EVS trainings
  • Identifying elements for the future conceptualisation of a coherent approach (links between the various trainings)
The training course NEXT STEPS – NEW LIFE?! focuses on the following key question:

How can we as trainers support and empower the volunteers to define their next steps for their own future?

This includes the following aspects:

How can we help them to recognise and make use of their resources?
How can we help them from moving on focusing on problems to focusing on solutions?


How can we bring about understanding of their on-going learning process?
How can we support the young people to create a vision of their own future?
How can we support them to broaden their options in regard to their future?
How can we reinforce attitudes that encourage them to be responsible for their own future?

How to make the young people aware of their personal development?
What reflections / tools can we offer to facilitate them to become actors shaping their learning process?



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Trainers & participants of NEXT STEPS - NEW LIFE

Trainers & participants of NEXT STEPS - NEW LIFE
Poronin, 2nd December 2006