This toolbox has the aim to unleash civil initiative with competency based learning approaches. We think, that learning and education can much more contribute to a better world than they do with a only focus on knowledge dissemination. Education understood as empowerment means to contribute to lifelong learning and to help people to apply their power and skills for something purposeful and for the public good. It is a collaborative task of families and schools, initiatives other organizations providing learning.
Introduction: Equip individuals with skills for feeling, using and sharing their influence and power as self-responsible individuals.
Introduction: For applying complex knowledge it is not enough simply to teach it. Competence based learning processes cover the broad range of skills, knowledge and attitudes, which one needs for successful action in a modern society.
Introduction: Experiential learning sees learning as a process of individual development, holistic in a sense as it appreciates knowledge, skills and attitudes of learners as relevant. It combines learning opportunities in everyday life, school, and all activities beyond classrooms in the civil society.
Introduction: Personal cooperation is a management instrument and a learning opportunity for enhancing soft skills. The more diverse groups are, they need to reflect and to apply cooperation models or ways of decisionmaking. These necessary reflections include a more detailed understanding of group processes and team roles.
Introduction: Communication skills lead in the best case to understanding, efficiency or appreciation of the involved communication partners. This section introduces models that illustrate conditions for successful communication and offer models for gaining communicative competence.
Introduction: Developing diversity consciousness and managing diversity in groups equips our participants to involve in the society and to shape in general a better quality of participation. This includes work against structural discrimination and under-representation of marginalized groups, fostering those who have not yet developed the capacities to become involved. And last but not least to encourage those people who have already developed these capacities to become advocates for a positive approach towards plurality and equality.
Introduction: The capacity to conflict resolution influences the quality of collaboration and cooperation in the group in a positive way. With conflict management we improve the quality and efficiency of communication and equip our participants with conflict management skills.
Introduction:Before our participants or students may imagine the bigger picture behind their activties, for what they may use their knowledge, capacities, skills, we as facilitator need to reflect on our vision, our skills. Empowering learning processes require motivating, appreciating and professional facilitators.
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Methods
"Feeling, gaining and sharing power."
What's empowerment?
