Linking the Local and the Global: A free 2-day residential training

national | miscellaneous | event notice Thursday April 01, 2010 14:26 by RachelLYCS - Lourdes Youth & Community Services racheldempsey at lycs dot ie 01 8230860

A training for anyone working in the community sector who is interested in promoting awareness and action around global issues

Linking the Local and the Global:
A Free 2-Day Residential Training Course
for the Community Sector
Portarlington, 28 & 29 April 2010

Why should you do this training?

Communities in Crisis = World in Crisis:
We live in an unequal and interdependent world. Every day we hear about crisis, from poverty to fuel prices and from racial violence to recession. And of course, we deal with many of these problems on a daily basis at a community level.

Our Issues= Global Issues:
Sometimes our problems are also global issues, and the root causes of local issues are often located outside Ireland. Conversely, what we do in Ireland affects the lives of others around the world. A better awareness of how the world works can truly empower local people and help them to become active global citizens.

Quickly Expand your Community Work Horizons:
This work, known as 'development education', can complement and enhance your community development or community education work, and this free 2-day training will give you the tools to get started on this exciting journey!

About the training:
10am-5pm Wednesday 28th April
• How our local issues relate to global
• Sample workshop: Inequality
• Sample workshop: Drugs
• Sample workshop: Economic Crisis
• Use of games, video, discussion, creative methodologies and more

7-9pm Wednesday 28th April
A special session where you will learn with three guest facilitators with experience linking the local and the global with specific groups in the community:
• Older People
• Travellers
• Migrants

10am-4pm Thursday 29th April
• Methodologies & approaches
• How to plan sessions
• Where to get resources & support
• Practice planning sessions

Practicalities:

• Training is free of charge.
• Transport is arranged from local bus and train stations.
• Full board and individual single room is provided in tranquil rural setting.
• Open to anyone actively involved in the community sector.
• Certificate of attendance can be provided.
• You must attend the whole training and pay a refundable deposit of €50 to secure your place.

How to apply:

Contact Rachel or Helena in Lourdes Youth & Community Services (LYCS) on 01 823 0860 or racheldempsey@lycs.ie to request an application form. All applications and deposits must be received by 21 April 2010.

The Organisers:

Who are we?
Lourdes Youth and Community Services (LYCS), a community development project in Dublin’s North East inner city, has a 25 year history of carrying out development education within the organisation and with the local community. This workshop is being funded by Irish Aid.

LYCS & Development education
Having found development education hugely beneficial in contributing to community development, LYCS now also works to empower other community organisations to bring a global perspective to their work. LYCS does this by providing training and mentoring services and has also published Connecting Communities, a practical guide to using development education in community settings.

The Facilitators
The workshop will be facilitated by Rachel Dempsey and Helena McNeil, development education workers in LYCS. There will also be three guest facilitators inputting on the training course.