Find Your Voice and revolutionise your youth work practice
Ready to revolutionise your youth work practice and unlock a powerful new way to connect with and empower young people? Finding Your Voice is designed for you – the dedicated youth worker, leader, volunteer, artist, educator, or creative who believes in the transformative power of connection and expression.
Imagine gaining a truly unique and inspiring methodology: using singing and vocal expression to achieve profound results with the young people you work with.
By attending this fully funded Erasmus+ course, here are just some of the incredible benefits you will gain:
- Discover a New Toolkit: Learn how to effectively use singing as a practical youth tool and methodology, providing you with creative and informal techniques that go beyond traditional approaches.
- Empower Self-Esteem and Personal Growth: Gain the skills to help young people significantly increase their self-esteem and perception, fostering their personal development. You'll be equipped to actively engage them in developing essential skills through a new found confidence in expressing themselves through using their voice.
- Ignite Active Citizenship: Explore how to encourage young people to explore and engage as active citizens in the democratic process and find their political voice. You'll delve into the power and influence of the ‘protest song’ and identify approaches for dialogue, political change, active citizenship, and conveying messages through song that can support your youth work.
- Enhance Communication and Collaboration: Understand how the dynamics of singing naturally encourage active listening, cooperation, and dialogue within groups, building stronger connections and teamwork.
- Foster Leadership and Skill Development: Learn how to define a positive approach towards leadership and the development of skills through the collaborative process of singing, equipping young people for future pathways.
- Experience Your Own Transformation: This training is also a journey for you. You will have the incredible opportunity to discover the pleasure of singing and using your own voice, explore its power to express your own thoughts, emotions, feelings and intentions, and recognise its value as a tool for personal growth. You'll specifically target and enhance your ETS Youth Work competences.
- Learn from Inspiring Experts: Be guided by an experienced and passionate international training team: Buzz Bury, Mafalda Morganti, and Ollie Clubb who bring diverse expertise in community music and creative methodologies.
- Connect and Collaborate Internationally: Participate in an international experience with peers from eligible European countries, strengthening the capacity of organisations and fostering the exchange of innovative practices [conversation history based on. The community living approach will also build shared responsibility and connection.
- Access an Affordable, High-Impact Opportunity: As the project is financed by the Erasmus+ programme, accommodation and food costs are covered, and travel costs are reimbursed up to specific amounts. Your investment is only a sliding scale participation fee based on your status, making this valuable professional and personal development accessible.
Taking place in Germany from the 10th to the 17th of October 2025 (Location TBC), "Finding Your Voice" is more than just a course; it's an invitation to explore, grow, and find a new way to make a powerful impact.