TRAININGS
“We believe that education plays a fundamental role when striving for peace and development. Education is a human right. In our training courses, we use the Non Formal Education (NFE) method – meant to be participatory and accessible to everyone. Through dialogue and intercultural exchange, we can promote a critical understanding of the world and changes in our society.“
SCI Team
Pre-departure Training
During our pre-departure training you will learn more about our volunteer engagement, the workcamps and long-term projects. Moreover, you will also get to know our values and goals. We deal with challenges in international workcamps or long-term projects and will offer you various workshops on topics such as interculturality, SCI history, conflict resolution, non-violent communication, group dynamics, cultural prejudices/stereotypes, Global Justice, racism, post-colonialism, gender and safe spaces and much more. In addition, volunteers will report on their experience in a volunteer engagement, and will give you valuable tips.
Participation in the pre-departure training is compulsory for minors who want to participate in a workcamp or LTV project, for volunteers joining a LTV project and for camp coordinators of the summer workcamps in Switzerland.
We organise three preparatory seminars per year. These usually take place in spring (February/March> for interested people in workcamps and LTV), summer (Mai/June> only for camp coordinators and workcamps participants) and autumn (October/November> for interested people in workcamps and LTV). Please contact us if you would like to do a long-term project so that you can be sure of attending a preparatory seminar in advance. In May, the seminar is only open for camp coordinators and workcamp participants.
Are you interested in participating? Contact us: info@scich.org
The next pre-departure training will take place on the following date on Saturday, 25th of May 2024 in Bern (Read more) – for camp coordinators and workcamp participants.
Upcoming Training courses
Join the open day of the Peace Education Market on 22 April in Köniz, Bern!
We invite you to participate in the Open Day of the Peace Education Market from 10.00 to 16.30 on Monday 22 April 2024...
Participate in a training course on climate activism in June in Poland!
We are looking for two participants for the "P.E.A.C.E for Nature" training course, which will take place from 22 to...
Take part in the next pre-departure training (May 25)!
We are happy to have you on board as a participant for our pre-departure training on Saturday 25th of May in Bern!This...
Peace training courses
“Peace is a big concept. It has many layers and levels of understanding. Throughout this year and beyond, SCI hopes to broaden young people’s understanding of and engagement with peace, as something more than just ‘absence of war’. We want to show that peace is something which can be lived on a day-to-day basis”. (SCI International)
Peace in Practice (2020)
The training course shed some light on the three levels of peace (“inner peace”, “peace with others” and “peace with nature”).
Peace for Change, Change for Peace (2022)
The project goal was to build the capacity of around 60 youth workers to gain competences essential for building a peaceful and nonviolent world.
Educators for Peace (2023 - 2024)
We will organise 2 training courses (November 2023 & April 2024), where the participants will learn, share and exchange on how to work for peace.
Publications & Toolkits
SCI Toolkits
The Power Behind Good Intentions (2021)
A toolkit for critical European volunteering organisations and Global Education practitioners
Free to be You and Me (2019)
The toolkit provides information on gender and sexuality, practical guidelines and easy-to-use tools
The Dailyplate Project (2020)
A toolkit and a cookbook about how our values should and can be represented in our food consumption
Peace on the Streets (2019)
Tools, best practices, knowledge around campaigns and street actions for youth workers and peace activists
FA-SILLY-TATORS!
(2020)
Exploring humour in non-formal education and youth projects
Building Bridges (2017)
Know-how on voluntary projects involving asylum seekers & refugees as well as raising awareness on forced migration
Publications from other organizations
The "BreakFree!" Project
The “BreakFree!” Project is a joint project of the SAJV and the ‘Milchjugend’, in cooperation with “Du bist Du”; its aim is to strengthen the inclusion of LGBT + youths in youth organizations.
Other publications