Training Procedure

The 5 to 8 days training seminars prepare you for leading an international workcamp in Germany. In the seminar you might get a sense of the unique workcamp atmosphere.

The seminar contents include:

• self-organisation
• cocial learning
• ecological learning
• intercultural learning
• gender awareness
• legal issues (for example duty of supervision)
• technical and organisational implementation of a workcamp
• role as a workcamp leader
• group games
• methods of youth work
• various topics regarding international youth work
• self-perception and roles of voluntary work in the workcamps
   

There are also fun and games, going for walks, dancing, personal exchange…

The seminare leaders and the group are organising the training seminars and also decide on the key issues of the seminar. Some training seminars have participants from many different countries and/or a thematic focus, which is a special aspect of the seminar. The seminars mostly take place in small conference houses that are worth supporting, in which the groups can mostly determine their everyday lives themselves.

After you have decided to lead a workcamp, you should select a workcamp and apply informally via the e-mail address workcamps.leiten@ijgd.de.

After you have received the confirmation from us, you will also receive an invitation for a team preparation seminar. The team preparation seminar gives you the opportunity to get to know your co-teamers. Your participation is voluntary.

Team work is very much needed when leading an ijgd workcamp. Two teamers are responsible for leading a workcamp. After you have received the confirmation from us, you will receive detailed information regarding the respective workcamp. Afterwards, you and your co-teamer can prepare for the workcamp.

There are general information materials available for your usage, including the handbook for workcamp teams.

As a workcamp teamer, you are on the one hand a member of an international group that organises the daily routine of the workcamps themselves. On the other hand, you take a special responsibility for certain aspects - the initial phase in the workcamp, organisational matters, the duty to supervise or being the contact person for the project partner and the ijgd.