Tolerance of Colours, Awareness Training On
Racism
4-13.4.2003, Sofia
!!! CALL FOR APPLICATIONS !!!
"TOLERANCE OF COLOURS"
Awareness Training On Racism
A multilateral Training Course (TC 2) for 25 youth workers and volunteers from
the countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece,
FYROMacedonia, Yugoslavia, Slovenia and Romania
04.04.2003 till 13.04.2003 in Sofia (Bulgaria)
Description of the International Awareness Training On Racism
The International Awareness Training on Racism is meant to sensitise the
participants for the mechanisms of racism and to find ways of reducing its
impact. The training is focused in detecting racism on the personal as well as
on the structural level. The training based on the fact, that racism is a result
of conditioned experiences while growing up and endorsed again and again by the
individual interaction with family, friends, colleagues and of course by
politics, media, education and other institutions.
The training aims to strengthen the recognition of racism and to intensify the
connection to one's innermost self. Ultimately, it leads up to the question: How
can I recognize and effectively take action against racism?
The training on Racism awareness is addressed towards youth workers and
volunteers, who are interested in Anti-Racism-Work. The intense training will
provide them with variety of tools and working methods that will complement
their knowledge and draw on their professional development and behaviour.
The process of the training has two phases:
1. Personal awareness on racism (Understanding)
The first phase will focus on the emotional approach and cognitive awareness of
racism as well as it's various appearances. Hereby the training will assume that
the basics of the modern racism approach were set down by colonial racism
theory. On this ground the training will enlighten how far colonial racism
effects various subsystems of racism and furthermore the personality of the
oppressed AND the oppressors.
2. Skills development and providing of adequate tools to face racism in daily
work environment (Action)
The second phase will concentrate on ways and tools how to build up strategies
to combat racism.
This phase is divided in three parts :
a. General strategies: cognitive abilities like reacting during acute situations
by using the language
b. Empowerment of emotional and personal competence: by exercises like "theatre
of the oppressed"
c. Future strategy planning: by using the gained abilities
A daily feedback round will verify the daily work of the participants.
The training ends with a detailed reflection as well as evaluation session.
Participants Profile:
The general candidates should:
- be Volunteering or semi-professional Trainers, youth leaders, youth workers
(members of INGYOs, NYCs or other youth organisations, governmental youth
institutions, youth projects and NGOs working for youth) and other occasional
youth trainers who are, or will be, responsible for one or several training
activities in the near future.
- be actively involved in youth work, while preparing to take on
responsibilities in the field of training with an European / international /
intercultural dimension (in or with young people from the SEE region)
- be able to work in English
- be aged between 18 and 35 (exceptions may be made on the basis of
justification)
Trainers Profile:
The program is designed and conducted by a multicultural team of trainers active
on antiracism issue.
Application procedure and selection of the participants:
Please fill out the online application form on
www.bosporus.org ("tolerance of colours") or use the application form
attached to this document.
The online application form must be filled out and sent by 26.02.2003 (DEADLINE)
The preparatory team will select 25 participants on the basis of the profile
outlined above. It will try as far as possible to respect the organisations'
priorities, but will also strive to ensure a balance between gender,
geographical regions, different types of experiences, cultural backgrounds and
organisations, institutions or projects.
Candidates will be informed, by the end of February 2003.
Entrolment fee:
Participants from:
Greece, Slovenia and Germany: 150 Euro
Bulgaria: 50 Euro
All other countries: 75 Euro
(Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, FYROMacedonia, Romania, Yugoslavia)
This fee includes:
- Traveling to Sofia and to the seminar venue.
- Board and lodging
- Insurance, Visa
- Training material
- Catering
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BOSPORUS INTERNATIONAL
Bosfor Obshtestvo Bulgaria
"Velchova zavera" 1
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria
e-mail: bulgaria@bosporus.org
web: www.bosporus.org
