You can talk about facilitation for days. Eventually, someone has to hand you the marker and say: your turn. 😅

We planned and delivered our own workshops, bringing together everything we had explored during the training; non-formal education, learning goals, facilitation, visual tools, group dynamics, and feedback. 🎤

Suddenly, we weren’t thinking about these things separately anymore. We had a real group in front of us, a workshop to guide, time to manage, and moments where we simply had to adapt and see what worked. 👀

Afterwards, we gave each other constructive feedback and reflected on what went well, what surprised us, and what we would approach differently next time. 💬

That’s probably the best way to finish a training like this: not by proving that you can do everything perfectly, but by trying, reflecting, and knowing what you want to improve next. 🌱

We’re leaving Jahodná with new tools, plenty of practice, and ideas that we can now bring into our own work with young people. 🤝

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Creative. Ambitious. Ready for challenges? 👀

Sounds like you belong at YYSK.
Join our volunteer team and help young people discover opportunities that matter. 💫

🔗 Apply through the link in bio.

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👋 Hello everyone, we at Youthfully Your would like to invite you to our very first community hike. 🏞️

🗓️ The next hike will happen on 10th of October. And we will start at 10am, from Kysak train station. 🚂

☎ For more info and planning join our Discord server called Youthfully_Yours_SK. https://discord.gg/rTCbHxjga 🗣️

🥾It will be an easy but rewarding hike where you can meet interesting folks and practice your english in a safe space. 🌟

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There’s always the one who starts talking first… the one full of ideas… and the one quietly observing everything. 👀

Day 5 took us into group dynamics; understanding what happens when different people come together and have to work as a team.

We explored how groups develop over time and looked at different roles people can naturally take within a team. And once you start learning about those patterns, it becomes very hard not to notice them happening in your own group too. 😄

We talked about communication, cooperation, different personalities, and what a facilitator can do when the group needs a little support. 💬

Because working with a group isn’t about making everyone behave or think in the same way. It’s about understanding what’s happening between people and helping them work with those differences. 🌱

And after five days of exploring all of this, there was only one thing left to do: try it ourselves. 👀

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Young people went out to study how the city impacts them and how they impact the city 🏙 for 5 days in Rzeszów, Poland from 17th August till 29th of August 2026 during a study visit called LeaderShift: Youth Initiatives. ✨

5 days spent in spaces where young people concentrate were filled with discussions and excursions aimed at discovering how cities and young people living in them mutually impact each other. 💫

🌍From exploring different spaces for youth in Rzeszów to discussions about possible improvements in what cities offer to youth and what could youth do for their surroundings the participants shared ideas of how to improve their own home communities. 📈

Sharing ideas, traditions, experiences, and stories with people from many different countries 🧠🎶 while creating memories, having fun, and building friendships that will stay with us and help improve communities all across Europe. 🤍📸🌱
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“But I can’t draw!” probably one of the first thoughts when visual facilitation enters the programme. 😅

Luckily, Day 4 wasn’t about becoming artists.

We explored visual facilitation and practised using simple drawings, symbols, colours, lettering, and visual structures to make information easier for a group to understand. ✏️

We grabbed the markers, experimented on paper, and discovered that a very simple visual can sometimes explain an idea faster than another paragraph of text. 👀

And that’s the point: your drawing doesn’t need to be perfect. If people understand what you’re trying to communicate, it’s doing its job.

Our flipcharts may have become a little more colourful after this day… and we’re definitely not complaining. 🌈

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Plot twist: being the person at the front doesn’t mean you should be the person talking the most. 👀

Day 3 was all about facilitation and what it actually means to guide a group through a learning experience.

We explored what can make facilitation work well; from giving understandable instructions and asking the right questions to listening to the group, noticing its energy, and knowing when to step in or step back. 💬

And because this was a training about learning through practice, we didn’t stop at theory. We worked with real group situations and started looking at activities through the eyes of a facilitator. 🤝

It made us realise how many little decisions happen behind an activity that might look simple when you’re participating in it.

Good facilitation isn’t about having all the answers. Sometimes it’s about helping the group find their own. 🌱

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Think about something you’re really good at. Did you learn it by listening to someone talk about it… or by actually trying it? 👀

On Day 2, we got into non-formal education and explored how learning can happen through experience, activities, discussions, teamwork, and reflection. 🌱

We looked at ideas like experiential learning, learning goals and different ways people learn but instead of only hearing the theory, we experienced different methods ourselves. 💬

We did something, reflected on what happened, connected it to what we were learning, and started thinking about how we could use the same approach with young people.

That’s one of the things we like about non-formal education: you’re not just sitting there collecting information. You’re part of the learning. 🙌

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