Schlingenstr. 65
33649 Bielefeld
Germany
- Youth and education
We are an institution of adult education organizing seminars for apprentices (future educators and caregivers) and individuals (in the domains music, health, creativity). Our focus lays on education for sustainable development, which is a theme of our seminars and a cross-sectional-task for our organization. We own a congress house where most of our seminars take place. Our work and our congress house is certified by the land North-Rhine-Westphalia also with the focus on sustainable development. We have a team of 19 employees and many free-lancers. Our budget is about 1.000.000 Euros, about half of it is funded by the land North-Rhine Westphalia (law of adult education). We are part of several EU-projects in the fields of inclusion and sustainable development. Our main partners are schools, vocational colleges and social organizations.
We initiate and accompany transformative educational processes, aiming the emancipation of people through collective learning processes. The unfolding of the own personality and the development of social skills are central issues in our seminars. We see the strengthening of inidividual self worth as the basis for socio-political changes including more soidarity, tolerance and social justice.
Or main activities are seminars lasting several days in the fields: education for sustainable development, trainings in pedagogical fields and health-care (working with refugees and youngsters with traumatic experiences, sexual education and prevention of sexual violence, working with children with defiant behaviour, working with persons with disabilities, communication trainings i.e. communication with dying persons and their relatives), outdoor-trainings for strengthening individual and social skills.
We can offer our insights in the field of education for sustainable development, including the Whole Institution Approach and know-how in planning seminars in social, pedagogical and creative fields including strenghtening of individual and social skills. We have an own congress house with 27 rooms for up to 56 persons, so we can host seminars with accomodation and catering.
We want to extend our activity in the field of education for sustainable developmement and work on the SDGs 16 (peace, justice and strong instittions) and 17 (partnerships to achieve the goals). We think the intercultural encounters of people working on issues of sustainablity is very important in order to find common answers for human-caused climate change and global challenges. Working together offers a multiperspective approach and increases tolerance and understanding, which are the basis for freedom.