Project Description

As AFS Volunteers, we consider all of our trainings as a continuous growing process. With a goal of empowering people with different intercultural competences, we design and carry on numerous non-formal trainings on varying topics from intercultural learning, concepts of culture, and cultural awareness to civil society, volunteerism and global active citizenship.

LEVEL TRAININGS

Level 1: Volunteering & Intercultural Learning

The first step of the level trainings aims to provide the participants with essential knowledge about the concepts of civil society and non-governmental organizations, intercultural awareness and volunteerism.The focus of the training is on culture, communication styles, and volunteering processes.

Level 2: Teamwork & Intercultural Communication

With this training that is designed for our active volunteers, we aim to increase their consciousness on “professional volunteerism”, and help them to gain competences on teamwork and solution-oriented thinking. We brainstorm about such topics like conflict management, multidimensional-critical and self critical thinking, and empathy.

Level 3: ‘Dream with Courage!' Change Making and Social Impact

The last of the level trainings focuses on how to transform an idea into a social impact project. We aim to empower participants with necessary competences to develop their ideas, to increase their awareness on local and global issues as well as their motivation to take action.

CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOPS

These one-day workshops with specific topics are organized to help our volunteers gain the knowledge, skill and experiences they need in their volunteer journeys as well as their social and professional lives.
The topics of the workshops we have organized so for are as follows:
⦁ Feedback & Evaluation
⦁ Oral Interview
⦁ Teamwork & Core Values
⦁ Social Media & Communication
⦁ Law & Gender
⦁ Peer Education & Experiential Learning
⦁ Civil Society & Active Citizenship
⦁ Communication & Planning
⦁ Face to Face Fund Raising
⦁ Intercultural Learning & Volunteering for Adults
⦁ Educational Goals of AFS

BASIC VOLUNTEER ORIENTATIONS

We invite everyone who wants to get acquainted with our work and to volunteer with us to “Volunteering 101: The Force Awakens” and “Volunteering 102: Forceful Together”, the orientations where we discuss about the history of AFS, civil society and volunteering, organizational structure of and volunteer work in the association, teamwork and communication.