COURSES
PARTY Parties training unit packages.
BUILDING IDENTITY AND VALUES COURSE
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The aim of the activity is for the participants know and reflect on their family and cultural heritage through a family tree. The objective is to rise up their values and skills learned from their ancestries. This is also a way to build-up their personal and cultural self-esteem.
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Prior knowledge needed: The participants don’t need any previous knowledge to take part in this course.
DRAMA COURSE
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Use the storyboards made in the previous unit and make them into a theater piece. Aim is to create local dialogue with the people and see how the drama can be a tool for creating change. Other motivation is to engage the youth with their own community as this makes them work for it and not against it.
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Prior knowledge needed: The participants don’t need any previous knowledge to take part in this course.
ETHICAL ORIENTATION COURSE
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It is important to know the research rules required in a specific country especially when working with marginalised communities.
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Prior knowledge needed: Research Background, knowledge on the country, cultural and community context.The course mentor should have a thorough understanding of Namibian ethical laws as well as the San community policies.
PRINTMAKING COURSE
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In a facilitated short course, participants will learn the basics of collagraph printing and block prints, as the foundation for a narrative research method. The course will also detail how to capture information gathered through this method and the qualities of narrative research data.
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Prior knowledge needed: Design process, design research, research ethics, qualitative research practice.
STAKEHOLDER MAPPING FOR SERVICE PROVISION
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To purpose of this course is for organisations providing youth-based services to map all their stakeholders involved in the service provision to create opportunities for collaboration. The participants will use the methods to visually map the stakeholders involved in
their service provision.
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Prior knowledge needed: The participants don’t need any previous knowledge to take part in this course.
MANAGE GRAPHICALLY A CONCEPT
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A 2 days course to teach how to express a topic through images. In this case, students made a poster about “What is San culture and lifestyle for you today”. In order to learn to express themselves with another “communication channel”, that they can use again in the future.
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Prior knowledge needed: The participants don’t need any previous knowledge to take part in this course.
STORYTELLING VIDEO
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The aim of the course is to create a personal digital CV to help students to introduce themselves and tell about their personal stories and skills with the support of digital images and videos. Therefore students are trained to design and edit a video presentation using the free software Windows Movie Maker.
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Prior knowledge needed: The participants don’t need any previous knowledge to take part in this course.
FACILITATION SKILLS FUNDAMENTALS
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Working in groups is not an easy task and requires a lot of effort to get people to collaborate in order to generate enjoyable environment and generate meaningful outcomes. This course aims to explore group dynamics to specifically be aware what to consider when facilitating a group discussion.
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Prior knowledge needed: The participants don’t need any previous knowledge to take part in this course.
COMMUNITY STORYTELLING
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The course will look to make use of visual tools for qualitative data collection as a means of story making, together with forms forms of analysis which aim to translate insights from the stories into opportunities for communities to address an inherent need.
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Prior knowledge needed: The participants don’t need any previous knowledge to take part in this course.