A course for professionals who support people through geographic or social mobility.

Want to develop your knowledge and practice of helping people have better social and geographic mobility experiences?

Want to learn new techniques, methods and tools for engaging people in mobility situations and be able to evaluate the process?

The training is aimed at professionals working in:

1. Higher education: Erasmus coordinators, mentors and counsellors of international students.

2. NGO sector: social workers, professionals working with migrants, international volunteers, disadvantaged youth, teachers and careers officers, educational guides or other staff working in talent and mentoring programs, tutors or practitioners offering adult education.

3. For-profit sector: coaches, counsellors working with expats, HR professionals, trainers working in multinational companies with a diverse team.

During the training you will:

– Gain awareness of what makes successful geographic and social mobility experiences

– Become acquainted with transforming challenges into learning in cross cultural situations

– Develop knowledge of cross cultural situation theories, practises and guidance through these situations

– Develop basic competencies for working with people in mobility situations

– Learn and adapt tools and practises that help people connect with others across cultural borders

– Network with other practitioners and tutors working in similar environments

Our Methodological principles:

The training is based on a combination of different activities and methodologies, relying on non-formal education.

Activities include:

– Structured exercises; role play; simulations to examine the dynamics of the different mobility situations

– Small group tasks, discussions

– Presentations and discussion of the different dimensions of mobility – including a field exercise

– Sessions focusing directly on tools of mobility guidance the MOMAP Survey and the Mobility Pack (our toolbox) which can be used in your guiding and support practice.

Location and Duration: 6 – 10 October 2014 Paris, France

Organizing institution: Elan Interculturel (www.elaninterculturel.com)

Venue: 7 rue guillaume bertrand 75011 Paris

Contact: Juan Marcos – marcos@elaninterculturel.com

Course Fee: 500 €
The fee includes course fee, course materials and handouts, refreshments, and free access to the whole MOMAP Toolkit.

Application deadline: 17th of March 2014

Procedure of application – Steps to apply for an Erasmus+ mobility grant:

For full information please check page 61 of the Programme guide:

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/documents/erasmus-plus-programmeguide_en.pdf

1) Check the eligibility of your organisation.

Please note: in the Erasmus+ programme the applications have to be done at institutional level: individual applications are not eligible anymore.

2) Register your organisation on: http://ec.europa.eu/education/participants/portal/

3) Download the application form from your National Agency.

To find your National Agency: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/national-agencies_en.htm

4) In order to complete it, you will have to:

a. Identify a European Development Plan for your organisation

b. Identify the training needs for your team for the whole project period, as there won’t be another application round before next year (Fall 2014-Fall 2015)

c. Identify a method of accompaniment of the mobilities (selection procedure, follow-up etc)

5) Submit the electronic application (eForm) to your national agency before noon 17^th March 2014 (Bruxelles time).

 

Outline of the training:

Day 1: What is mobility?

Morning:

–          Presentation of the course. Expectations.
–          What is Mobility? Who is mobile? What is the connection between geographic and social mobility experiences?

Afternoon:

–          Presentation and discussion about the 4C Project: implementation process; research phase and its results.
–          Introduction to the MOMAP Chart.
–          Walking Bingo: simple questions and visual answers.
–          Experiential exercise on guiding.
–          Introduction to MOMAP Guidance Methodology.

Day 2: Motivation and Experiences

Morning:

–          Motivations: How can motivation affect the mobility experiences? How can we guide our participants to develop more intrinsic motivations?

Afternoon:

–          Field Trip: Get out and experience mobility on your skin! – Simulation of a cultural immersion / mobility situation.

Day 3: Focus on Intercultural Skills and Competences

Morning:

–          Debriefing the field trip: Evaluation of the mobility experience: its beauty, its challenges, its difficulties and threats.
Afternoon:

–          Handling cultural transitions – intercultural skills and coping strategies: Get acquainted with the framework and basic concepts of the Transaction Theory of stress and Cognitive Behavioural Theory. How to build and develop new strategies and competences to deal with intercultural situations? Exploring different outcomes of situations through cartoons/storyboards.

–          What a person needs what a guide can give?
Discussion on the role of the Guide linked to intercultural skills.

 Day 4: Zoom on accompaniment tools of mobility

Morning:

–          Challenges through mobility:
Explore the different types of challenges in mobility. Finding solutions as a guide: how can you support participants to deal with these challenges?

–          What does it mean to be a Mobility Guide?
What are the skills, attitudes, and techniques that a good Guide must own?

Afternoon:

–          Multiple identities and mobility:
How does identity orientation influences the mobility experience? Do people have more of a personal or group identity orientation? How do we value different aspects of our identity? Opening up multiple identities and values attached to different identity positions.

–          Relational strategies:
The social galaxy: exploring on one’s own social network. To what extent the social network is anchored in the new environment or rather reflect one’s original cultural environment? How to define the next steps towards broader social network?

Day 5: How is it to be a Guide?

Morning:

–          The MOMAP Guiding Process:
Recruitment of participants; preparation of the 1st session; setting up aims with participants; during the guiding process; evaluation and follow up.

–          Preparing for the 1st guiding session:
Group work: Learning in practice how to analyse the MOMAP Survey results and how to choose the different areas to work on.