Young Leaders' School (202)
Young Leaders’ School is working with young people to strengthen them and to form leadership skills. The work is carried out in 9 municipalities of Western Georgia - Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, Terjla, Senaki, Poti, Khurcha / Koki (Zugdidi municipality), Lanchkhuti, Ozurgeti. These are information meetings about gender and domestic violence, workshops on conflictology for young people, meetings with boys, formation of a group of young trainers, trainings and various meetings with participation of young people.
Pupils of the public schools of the village Gvishtibi (Tskaltubo municipality), the village Orulu (Zugdidi municipality) and school No. 4 of Ozurgeti together with the conflictologist of the Fund “Sukhumi” discussed the styles of behavior in conflict situations. Through visual posters, concrete examples, they analyzed the situations and gained new skills .
“I learned how to solve the conflict peacefully,” “I got acquainted with the“ golden rule”,“ I want the work to continue,” this was the evaluation of the workshops from the side of pupils.
Styles of behavior in conflict situations and the peaceful resolution of conflict - this was the topic of workshops with students. Using different methods, workshops became even more interesting. The workshops were held in a private school of Senaki, in a public school of the village of Kontuati (Khoni municipality) and school No. 1 in Poti.
Participants learned a lot, including: the meaning of putting a “label” on a person, the importance of controlling emotions, stages of conflict escalation, solving a problem through negotiations.
Pupils noted that the acquired knowledge and skills will not only be useful to them in life, but will also be shared with their peers.
Concrete examples of escalation of the conflict and the possible consequences were discussed by the students of the private lyceum school of Senaki, school No 15 - Kutaisi and the villa - of Orulu (Zugdidi municipality) together with the conflictologist of the Fund "Sukhumi". Work with these groups will be continued.
In April, traditional meetings were held with boys in Poti, Terjola, Senaki, Tskaltubo, Zugdidi, Ozurgeti, Kutaisi, Lanchkhuti, Khoni municipalities.
The meetings discussed the concept of courage and the issue of gender equality. The boys were actively involved in the working process: there were role-playing games, discussions. According to the boys, the main reason of family conflicts is the difficult economic situation in the country. At the end of the meeting, during the feedback, participants noted that knowledge, information, and the correct legal methods should be used against violence and inequality.
Work with these groups is still ongoing.
Pupils of the schools of Kveda Simoneti (Terjola municipality), Kontuati (Khoni municipality) and Poti discussed the stages of conflict escalation and possible results together with the representative of the Fund "Sukhumi"
They understood how a small conflict could grow into a large-scale and dangerous conflict, and how to avoid it. It was noted that many people heard the information about a possible result – “win-win” for the first time. They got a good experience, and are waiting for the next meetings with interest.
Informational meetings of the youth clubs on the topic: domestic violence, reasons, statistics and mechanisms of violence prevention were held in the private school of Poti, in the schools of the villages Nakhakhulevi (Khoni Municipality) and Zeda Simoneti (Terjola Municipality),
These were new groups. Leaders were identified. Young people are actively involved in the work and discussions. They analyzed the reasons of domestic violence. In role-playing games, they expressed their own positions - scenes of psychological, physical and economic violence were shown. After each scene, young people boldly talked about problems. It turned out that they are protesting against what they do not like.
In May 5 informational meeitngs were held in the youth clubs of the Fund “Sukhumi”, in Kutaisi, Khoni, Poti, Lanchkhuti and Ozurgeti municipalities.
These were the meetings with new groups, with whom the 6 month work was carried out in March.
The meetings were interesting for school directors and teachers of civil education. The main thing is that the pupils were also actively involved in the work. There was active involvement, discussions, role-games, presentation of life imitated scenes. These meetings showed that this innovation is interesting and exciting for teenagers, and they are going to work actively.
Informational meetings of the youth clubs were held in the schools of Tskaltubo, Senaki, Terjola and Zugdidi municipalities.
It was a new environment, new groups that are starting a five-month training course. Active, motivated young people liked free atmosphere, role-playing games, discussions. Participants recalled interesting stories, frankly talked about problems.
There was great interest and desire for cooperation from the side of directors and teachers of civil lessons. There is a hope that active groups will be created, which will become a visiting card of schools.
"The lesson was special and entertaining."
“We looked at a specific example, and found out how lack of information and distortion of information can cause conflict.”
"I am glad to see you again next month."
These were the students’ remarks the end of workshops. Meetings were devoted to discussing the causes of conflict. Schoolchildren from the villages of Orulu (Zugdidi municipality), Nigvziani (Lanchkhuti municipality) and Kontuati (Khoni municipality) are looking forward to future meetings to learn how to avoid conflicts.
In March, work began with new groups of boys. The meetings took place in the municipalities of Tskaltubo (March 4), Terjola (March 5) and Senaki (March 6). The first part of the meeting was mainly introductory. Participants familiarized themselves with the work of the Fund “Sukhumi”, with the plan of 5-month meetings.
Then the discussion of the topic of violence started. The guys initially expressed their opinion. It turned out that there were boys-leaders in the groups who knew more. At the end, the work was summarized, the forms of violence and the ways to solve them were fixed. The motivations of boys, to share information with each other and learn more was shown.