This week-long programme will train participants to become work camp leaders. We aim to support young people develop skills and learn about group facilitation, interculturality and sustainable practices… in the context of international workcamps!

Group facilitation skills include organising daily life, understanding group dynamics, dealing with conflicts and collective/individual needs, reflecting on responsibilities and attitudes of a group leader. Interculturality is also a central topic within any international workcamp. We propose to explore and understand the interest (and the beauty!) and challenges of intercultural exchanges and how to navigate tensions emerging from this exchange. Our focus on sustainability is going to be about food and how to implement ecological practices on our workcamps. We would also like to create a space to reflect on ways of raising awareness about other ecological issues on workcamps. All this will help us to develop a peace building culture, because intercultural learning, sustainability and living in a group can be effective ways of building peace in its larger meaning.