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Leadership, Empowerment and Facilitation for Youth
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April 29, 2023Young leader Elizabeth Nyemkuna participated in "Leadership, Empowerment and Facilitation for Youth” (LEAFY), in Ängsbacka, Sweden from 17th to 24h April 2023.
It was a beautiful experience to attend the Youth Leadership, empowerment, and facilitation training at Angsbacka Sweden from 17th -23rd April 2023.
I have been facilitating before, but the explicit step by step process of facilitation from planning, organising, group dynamics, use of personal style and understanding how to set boundaries/ use of rank, was a game changer for me. It was also great to be able to co-facilitate with other youths from twenty-three different countries.
Nowadays, young people are clear-sighted about the long-term challenges facing humanity and are keen to take on leadership in their communities to bring forward a transition to a more socially and environmentally sustainable future. To take on leadership, it is important to enhance existing skills.
Elizabeth Nyemkuna
“Leadership, Empowerment and Facilitation for Youth” (LEAFY) is a training course for youth workers that aims to create a shared knowledge base among youth workers and youth leaders so that they can work more effectively with young people around the topics of sustainability, inclusion and climate change.
The course explored the experience that European ecovillages have accumulated as pioneer educational centres around these topics and it will share an innovative toolbox for youth workers that has been developed and adapted by a partnership among ecovillages, youth workers and sustainability campaigners. An ecovillage is an intentional or traditional community that is designed through local and participatory processes to regenerate social and natural environments. The 4 dimensions of sustainability - ecology, economy, society and culture - are integrated in a holistic approach. Ecovillages are models of sustainable settlements that serve as training and learning centres where people experience, through informal and non-formal education activities, the experience of sharing life in a cohesive, inclusive and sustainable society.
