Go Visual - visual thinking tools for educators and youth

Life is bringing more and more challenges for young people, such as unemployment, the refugee crisis, violation of human rights, pandemic, isolation, intercultural misunderstanding, in a very diverse world, and these are only the major challenges that young people have. In this situation, young people feel frustrated and abandoned, outside of the community life, which might lead to segregation and violence. Youth workers are taking a key role in helping young people to deal with frustration and become active citizens, they help to overcome difficulties grow through challenges, and take responsibilities. Through youth training, they help to develop a “survival” set of competencies: those that cannot be developed in any other circumstances such as tolerance, mutual understanding and respect, non-violent communication, critical thinking, creativity, and many others.Though the role of youth training can hardly be exaggerated in the nowadays situation, the world of youth training is also developing, reacting to the current tendencies and challenges. One of those is critical thinking, which is an essential skill and basis for personal and professional development and for peaceful behavior. One of the instruments, that can help youth workers and youth trainers to become more efficient in the process of developing critical thinking of young people is better to use of visual thinking instruments, such as infographics, sketch noting, graphical recording, doodling, graphical facilitation and e.t. Those phenomena already exist in the world of business trainings and bringing very good educational results, unfortunately, not many youth trainers know how to use those instruments and how to apply them to the efficient educational and youth work. Visuals in numbers:-65% of the people are visual learners-Image is browsed 94% more often -Information share 40time more often with images & videos-Image processed in 0.01sec.-75% of neurons are responsible for processing imagesThe aim of the project Go Visual is to raise awareness and develop the competence of educators, trainers, teachers, youth workers, youth, and young people, in visual thinking tools and graphic facilitation, in order to empower, raise effectiveness and quality of educational process and learning.That is why we decided to create a project for educators, trainers, and youth workers that will be focused on the following objectives:- To increase awareness and importance of the use of the visual thinking tools in educationand youth work, and how to apply them to concrete youth training and work;-To learn basic elements of visual language and how to combine them to create meanings and to develop your own visual library-To explore sketch-noting & graphic recording techniques: to visualise and structure, concepts and ideas in an easy and efficient way for personal use.- To explore why visuals useful and how they help to better remember & understand things, empower and motivate, grab attention & and call to action.- To learn what graphical facilitation is and how to use it in different contexts and for specific goals- To learn how to stimulate critical thinking and creativity with graphical tools.- To discover digital and online instruments of visual thinking. - To learn how to create and design content for digital education activities - To learn about various platforms which can be used in online learning and practice in using them- To become more self-expressive and to reduce risks of misunderstanding;- To create a cascade chain reaction and multipliers effect of the development of visual thinking and use of graphics in education, learning and youth work- To create visual instruments to support the self-learning process of visual think and graphic facilitation competence development. In order to rich our objectives Project will consist of the next stage. -Online course #1-Go Visual: Basic training course-Local practice #1-Online course #2-Go Visual: Digital training course-Local Practice #2-Online course #3-Intellectual Outputs creation ( Graphic facilitation On-line course, Graphic Educational toolbox, Visual education games)-Go Visual: Evolution training course-Project conference & National Multiplier eventsThese objectives link to Erasmus+ objectives as project:- Provides youth workers with skills which are valuable for enhancing the work of NGOs and youth organizations around Europe; - equipping youth workers with competences and methods needed for transferring the common fundamental values of our society particularly to the hard to reach young people and preventing the violent radicalization of young people as well.- Enhances participants' foreign languages competences;- Promotes youth mobility in Europe, active citizenship, raises awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries among participants;- Fosters quality improvements in youth work, in particular through enhanced cooperation between organisation