World crises have largely affected the work of facilitators and created new challenges for citizenship education. How to adapt to these changes and work with people's traumatic experiences? What will help restore internal resources and find resilience?

We invite educators and youth workers to discuss these and related issues at the online forum "The (new) ethics of facilitation", taking place from December 1-3, 2022.

The purpose of the forum is to unite educators, facilitators and specialists who work with youth, and highlight new methods of work in the context of global changes in recent months and years. To join the online forum, please register by filling in the registration form by November 29.

The forum takes place in the scope of the project “Rethink citizenship education in times of change”, implemented by MitOst e.V. in cooperation with Insha Osvita and EcoVisio and funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

Please find below the agenda. You can also sign up and come just to a few selected sessions if you do not have the capacities to join in all the sessions:

AGENDA

DAY 1: How awareness in citizenship education helps you form and adapt new facilitation principles

1pm – 3.15pm Opening & Key Speech
“What happened in citizenship education? From a personal standpoint to the broader picture of civic education in times of war” by Rebekka Pfennig, Germany

3.30- 5pm Holistic & Horizontal learning spaces: Key speech by Maria Thymoshchuk, Ukraine & Reflections

DAY 2: Dialogue and facilitation in times of war and crisis

1pm – 2pm Trends and approaches in citizenship education in times of crisis, World Café

2-3pm Alarming Symphony by Sasha Kurmaz, Ukraine

3-4pm “Dialogue in times of war - perspective from Ukraine” interview with Anna Valensa, Ukraine & small group reflection

4-5pm How to create safer spaces through trauma sensitive awareness?” key speech & embodied practice by Christa Cocciole (USA/Germany)

DAY 3: The role of a facilitator nowadays

1pm – 2pm Check-in & Collecting topics for Open Space
“To meet or not to meet - Experiences of creating online and offline spaces for dialogue in conflict areas”
Key speech by Jolanta Steciuk, Poland

2pm – 3.15pm: “The (new) ethics in facilitation - Facilitation is about flexibility, balancing contrasts and remaining neutral. Or is it not? ” Discussion with guest facilitators

3.30 – 4.10pm: Open Space

4.10- 5pm Presentation of Publication “Collection of voices” & Closing