THE CREATIVE TOOLBOX:

SUMMARY

OBJECTIVES

We want to offer youth workers the opportunity to develop competences and exchange knowledge and experiences on how to artistically shape play & meeting spaces for children and young people during their free time.

With ‘artistically’ we mean: introducing individuals to art and culture. It encompasses all artistic skills: music, visual arts, movement, drama, media, and play.  

• Stimulating youth workers, instilling the desire to engage artistically on their own. From there, the plan is to shape artistic competences to provide relevant methods and tools to pass on that desire to fellow professionals, volunteers and the target group, namely children and young people.  

• Providing competences to apply artistic methods and tools.  

• Teaching methods and tools to engage artistically with a group of children and young people in an accessible way. 

• Participants are aware of the possibilities and benefits of artistic methodologies 

• Participants can creatively approach the planning of activities for children and young people

• Participants are capable of applying artistic methodologies when creating play and meeting spaces for children and young people

• They learn that one does not have to be a musician to engage in a highly artistic manner. Participants become more confident in employing artistic methods

• Participants are able to inspire others within and outside their organization to engage artistically 

• The participant will have the opportunity to share the acquired knowledge in a user friendly way through training sessions within their own organization, thus imparting knowledge and competences to fellow volunteers

• The participant can integrate the artistic approach into the organization's leisure time/youth work offerings for children and young people