The Way of Council (Method Video Tutorial)

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🌿 Description: This video tutorial of the method “The Way of Council” is a sharing method, focused on empathy and active listening. It's a practice of personal storytelling, which turns out to be very effective especially while working on topics such as personal development and strengthening of communities.

🌿 Support material for implementing the method
Method Outline:

🌿 About this video tutorial
The footage for this video tutorial was shot during the ReCalibur training course “Youth Community Engagement through Outdoor Education” in July 2022 in Taevaskoja, Estonia. We are grateful to the international participants of our event for their willingness to appear in the video.

Authors of the video scripts: Pavel Vassiljev, MarCus Vrecer, Mafalda Morganti, Lorenzo Nava, Carmine Rodi Falanga and Simon Skipper Christiansen
Graphics and illustrations: Olalla Gonzalez
Video production: Simon Skipper Christiansen and Ewa Godd

🌿 About us and the project
“ReCalibur: Ecotools in youth work for collective creativity” is a long-term strategic partnership project which aims to explore youth work’s renewed role in fostering a shared sense of mutual belonging with the communities and the natural world by enhancing and strengthening resonating outer connection as forms of creative inspiration.

In the frame of ReCalibur, we produced a set of 26 methods described as video tutorials that can directly be applied by youth work practitioners in their work with young people, stemming from areas such as creativity, arts, storytelling, comedy, nature-based education, ecopsychology, gamification, non-formal education, coaching and more.

For additional resources, such as podcasts, research, articles and other useful links check https://recalibur.eduera.sk/

🌿 The project unites five organisations
EduEra (Slovakia): https://eduera.sk
Coobra – cooperativa braccianti (Austria): http://www.coobra.at/
Shokkin Group Estonia (Estonia): https://et.shokkin.org
Dansk ICYE (Denmark): https://www.icye.dk
Cooperativa Sociale Muovimente (Italy): http://www.muovimente.it

🌿 Funding
ReCalibur is supported by the ERASMUS+ programme of the European Commission via the Slovak National Agency NIVAM.

🌿 Disclaimer
This method is connected to the tradition of gathering in a circle sharing stories, typical of many indigenous cultures all over the world. The specific approach presented here has been re-adapted by Jack Zimmerman, Virginia Coyle and others members of the Ojaj Foundation, California, USA. For further informations check: https://waysofcouncil.net