NO BOX training program is a learning experience that aims to train youth educators on how to bring personal development elements while working in outdoor context

• Do you love outdoors?
• Do you want to create more impactful activities outdoors?
• Are you up for personal development?
• Do you want to expand your learning when it gets to development of outdoor activities
• Do you want to camp and train yourself in a sustainable eco-house?

If the answer is yes, then “No Box” is for you…

It is a 4 Step Process:

(1) Online Preparation

1 – 28 September 2019

Home, Online & Surroundings

During this part of the project, you will have the chance to pack your backpack with all the necessary outdoor equipment, some practices, and tools you already use and bring them to Hopeland.

(2) Training Course

2 – 9 October 2019 (including traveling days)

Hopeland, Argos, Greece

During this part, you will develop professionally and personally and it will require your involvement and investment in your own learning process and growth. You will live outdoors, you will receive outdoor activities, you will create and deliver outdoor activities, you will form a sustainable community, you will be challenged to grow and take the next step as an outdoor trainer.

(3) Local Activity

October – December 2019

Home & surroundings

During this part, you will share your experience of No Box training course with your
community. You will be asked to create and perform an outdoor activity with the skills
acquired during the previous stages of the project.

(4) Follow up

January 2020

Online

During this part, you will be the author of your own learning and you will share it with the world. You will have the chance to unpack your stuff and put them into your reality while co-creating and sharing outputs created during the previous phases of the project. (Videos, Manuals, etc).

Methods

Participational learning. We combine experience, continuous improvements & active participation in a wide variety of activities through-out the whole project to create professional and personal growth

Outdoors. Our playground and main context is outdoors that creates learning, curiosity & inclusion

Simply doing. Doing is what brings real life results. We focus on experimenting, testing, implementing and improving what and how we do what we do

To whom

• YOUTH WORKERS, TRAINERS AND EDUCATORS: who actively work with young people and groups on a regular basis & are interested to (re)discover outdoors as a tool for growth and learning.
• REQUIREMENTS:
• Your age is 18+
• You are able to work and communicate in English
• You want to use outdoors in youth work & educational activities
• Υou are a resident of Greece, Bulgaria,Romania, Italy, Czechia, Lithuania, the Netherlands,Latvia, Spain or the United Kingdom.
• You are committed, want to develop & love challenges