WORKSHOPS
Wayfinding is a series of creative workshops for promoting mental health and adaptation of displaced Ukrainian people. They are based on community psychology principles and a variety of creative methods. During their six sessions we jointly explore the ways of coping with stress, adapting to new environments and exploring ourselves and the city. We do it through talking, drawing, dancing, playing games, going on walks and organising self-support groups that continue to meet long after the end of the course.
Our workshops are always free.
How to join
The upcoming group in the Hague will meet 1 September - 6 October.
Schedule:
Sunday 1 September 12:30-15:30
Sunday 8 September 12:30-15:30
Sunday 15 September 12:30-15:30
Sunday 22 September 12:30-15:30
Sunday 29 September 12:30-15:30
Sunday 6 October 12:30-15:30
Location: Central Library of The Hague
It is best if you attend all 6 meetings because they work well together. But if you can only make it to some of them, we will still be happy to meet you and will have a good time together.
REGISTER HERE
After the workshops you can also join the self-support group that meets every month.
How to give these workshops
The workshops are currently given in the Netherlands and Lithuania, but we hope that this method can also be used by organisations and initiatives in other countries.
To share it with those who can be interested, like social workers, adult educators, creative professionals, community organisations, volunteers and other people working with displaced people from Ukraine and other countries we have put together the traning manual that can help you to give this course in your city, build a new supporting training on its basis or just use some bits and pieces that might be helpful in your work.
You can find there the theoretical framework that informed the project, description of different tools that we use, as well as the discussion of non-formal educational methods and how they can be adapted to specific cultural and geographical contexts.
You can find there a detailed description of 8 different sessions that can form this traning, as well as presentations, handout materials and self-evaluation forms.
WORKSHOP MANUAL (UKR)
WORKSHOP MANUAL (ENG)
WORKSHOP MANUAL (NLD)
WORKSHOP MANUAL (LTU)
WORKSHOP MATERIALS
All our materials are free to use and can be easily adapted by adult educators working with displaced people from war zones.
Openly sharing this work, we kindly ask you to mention Wayfinding project as a source of information and inspiration, if you use this manual.
We will also be happy to be in touch about its application in different countries, organisations and initiatives, to see how helpful it can be to others.
You can always contact us via email info@thickpresent.com
The project is developed by the Stichting Thich Present (NL), FENAN Consulting (NL) and Non-formal learning club “WE”/Neformalaus mokymosi klubas "MES" (LT) in the framework of Erasmus Plus program 2022-2-NL01-KA210-ADU-000094886.