What: A 5-day training of trainers course focusing on the competencies (of youth work practitioners) needed to work as BUDDIES with young women individually to support their career path and healthy work-life balance, as well as to support peers into becoming WomenBridges Buddies
When: 22-26.7.2022 (21 and 27 July are travel days)
Where: Sofia, Bulgaria
Working Language: English
Who is the training for: youth workers and mission-driven practitioners (including trainers, career counselors, social workers, mediators, mentors, HR specialists, practitioners of various areas, etc.) who are interested in working with young people, including ones from vulnerable groups. We put focus on women who have an interest in working in the field of equality and human rights, economic empowerment, education and employment of persons from vulnerable groups, effective social inclusion in society, and civic participation.
Age: 18+
In most cases, our participants are in one or several of the following roles:
- One who works for balance between work and personal life
- A woman who has to succeed to become economically independent
- One who experienced a career switch
- A woman with a successful career path
- A female entrepreneur with a successful business
- A woman who wants to help other women to achieve work-life balance
- A woman who feels in capacity to become a mentor to other women
Are you ready to become a WomenBridges’ Buddy? If you found yourself, or you are interested to find out more, please continue reading:
WomenBridges is your opportunity:
- To learn about yourself using DISC and other methodologies and explore your boundaries
- To experience flexible working, as well as entrepreneurship and employee’s daily agenda
- To develop personal capacity to be a mentor and a trainer
WomenBridges Training of trainers will be an opportunity to gain competencies connected to:
- Empathy
- Emotional intelligence
- Meaningful communication
- People management
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Personal and operational planning
- Career planning and guidance
- Facilitating the learning process for others
We expect a 3M commitment as there is practice included after the training where you will be able to turn your knowledge into meaningful help for others.
What is it for you?
The WomenBridges is part of a bigger initiative named momgotajob, dedicated to fulfilling life for women and mothers in all their roles. WomenBridges provides a comprehensive approach and concrete methodology to support the career paths of young women, especially those in vulnerable situations, to achieve economic independence and employment. At the same time, it develops the competencies of youth workers and NGO teams in implementing and co-develop this approach.
The long-term goal of WomenBridges is the effective inclusion of young women in public life by providing quality and balanced employment as entrepreneurs, self-employed, or employees.
It is an opportunity to experience firsthand the WomenBridges process and to equip yourself with the competencies to guide and support other women. You will join a fast-growing community of women and will become part of the core team of the WomenBridges program. In the scope of the current project, you will participate in the co-creation of the pilot activities for young women and will be able to put into practice the competencies built through the training of trainers course. In the long term, you will be able to continue working with the WomenBridges program, as we see it as a long-term activity and a permanent activity of the partnering organizations.
The training team
The training team is of women that combine the roles of mother, businesswoman, nonprofit practitioners, and several others. All of them have personally experienced the WomenBridges path of growth and are ready to share and support the participants in their process of becoming buddies, both through providing the experience of self-observation and learning and building competencies to support and train others. Cumulatively the training team is competent in delivering training for youth workers within the Erasmus+ framework, entrepreneurship, project and people management, career development and guidance in various environments (corporate, nonprofit, freelancing, etc.), communication, diversity and inclusion, leadership, mentoring and others.
The Project
WomenBridges – Connecting opportunities for young women is an Erasmus+ project where three partners gather their knowledge and experience to shape a program aiming for economic independence for women and at the same time to support a healthy balance between women’s careers and personal lives. The coordinator Impact Drive Foundation (Bulgaria) is joined by Jamba (Austria) and Women Do Business (Greece).
