Empathy Compass — open call for participants
Training on using emotional literacy for conflict transformation
👧 We are looking for 29 participants from France, Spain, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Cyprus and Portugal.
🌳🏡 Venue: Evian-les-bains, France
🗓️ Dates: Arrival on May 12th and departure on 19th
⏳Deadline for application: March 16th 2025
⌨️ Link to apply → Apply here
LET US TELL YOU ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Why does this project take place?
In a world where conflicts — both personal and societal — are becoming more complex, the ability to navigate emotions, communicate nonviolently, and transform conflicts into opportunities for growth is essential. Many youth leaders engage daily with young people facing social tensions, misunderstandings, and emotional challenges, yet they often lack the tools to support constructive dialogue and conflict resolution.
That’s where Empathy Compass comes in! This training is designed to equip youth leaders like you with practical skills in emotional literacy, nonviolent communication, and conflict transformation. You’ll learn how to foster understanding, build trust, and create spaces where young people feel heard and empowered. Through interactive methods, creative tools, and real-life applications, this project will help you strengthen your role as a peacebuilder in your community.
If you believe in the power of empathy and want to make a difference by promoting nonviolent ways of resolving conflicts — this is the opportunity for you!
AIM
equip 29 youth workers with essential skills in empathy and nonviolent communication, serving as tools for conflict transformation, while concurrently developing visual and educational tools to promote social awareness and emotional literacy at the grassroots level.
OBJECTIVES
- to explore the concepts of peace, violence, conflict, peacebuilding and nonviolent conflict transformation.
- to explore concepts related to peace education, nonviolent communication, and emotional literacy.
- to enhance participants’ skills in emotional literacy such as nonviolent communication and empathy as a means of effective conflict transformation.
- to provide practical tools to develop emotional literacy and to engage in peaceful conflict transformation in the local realities;
- to assess the presence or absence of emotional literacy in education across participating countries and devise solutions to address potential challenges in this domain.
- to create a space for participants to design visual and educational tools centered around nonviolent conflict transformation, nonviolent communication, and emotional literacy.
PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS 🐧
We are looking for:
- 18–35 year old (if you are a youth worker — apply no matter of your age range)
- who is living in one of these countries: France, Spain, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Cyprus and Portugal (you don’t need to hold passport of those countries, you need to live and travel from there)
- Youth workers or youth leaders that work with youth in their communities
- people active as trainers or educators in non–formal education, especially within youth organizations and associations
- young people who believe in peaceful changes in their communities are passionate about issues facing their community
- people with experience or interest in conflict resolution or transformation, human rights, peacebuilding and youth work
- able to communicate in English (this the language of the trainings)
- ready to commit to take part in the 6-days-training & to run local workshop that will be a follow-up of the training.
HOW WE WORK
The training courses will be based on the principles of non-formal education.
We will implement the basic elements of the non-formal education, such as the education being voluntary, organized with educational objectives, participatory and learner-centered, about learning life skills and preparing for active citizenship, based on involving both individual and group learning with a collective approach, holistic and process-oriented, as well as based on experience and action (we will plan the follow-up activities) and starts from the needs of the participants.
Basically is a peer-to-peer (you teach & learn from others) approach :)
COSTS
We believe in one thing, the power of peace education and the right for all to have an opportunity. That is why, thanks to the ERASMUS+ scheme, we are able to provide this training for you for FREE.
We will be able to reimburse you for your travel to Evian with a limit of:
- France — 56 euros
- Italy — 200 euros
- Germany, Spain, Portugal — 300 euros
- Cyprus — 395 euros
If you choose green travel (train, carpooling etc.), we will try to support you with a higher reimbursement.
And a bit about ourselves 👇
Youth Peace Ambassadors Network
The majority of the members of the network are trained on human rights, non-formal education, and conflict transformation by the Council of Europe in the long-term project (2011–2014).
Our Mission: The YPA Network wants to develop a culture of peace by empowering young people, and promoting human rights, dignity, equality, and respect for diversity through education, advocacy, and other non-violent actions through projects at the local and international levels.
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Youth Peace Ambassadors Network France
The activities of the organization focus on 3 main areas: human rights in general, peacebuilding and conflict transformation. YPAN France works with international experts, youth workers, and human rights activists in order to provide a new way to transform society, from local to global.
DEADLINE — March 16th 2025
APPLY HERE — APPLICATION
CONTACT
Write to this e-mail with the Subject: “Empathy Compass”
trainings@ypan.org
Empathy Compass is a project financed by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme.
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