The afternoon sessions of #CATEYEbyCET were all about practicing our roles of non-formal educators and youth workers, testing our newly developed non-formal learning activities. But, before we made the draw of who will be the first team to implement their activity, we still had some time for final preparation to refine our activities, divide the…
Once we have finished with the comedy segment of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor”, it was time to dive deeper into the next part of the project, focusing on youth engagement and improvement of our facilitation skills of non-formal learning activities. As always, we started the morning…
The afternoon sessions of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” were all about putting the previously learned principles and techniques of stand-up comedy and public speaking into practice. But, before we got into that, we did a fun and relaxing energizer to get into the mood to perform.…
We started the 5th day of #CATEYEbyCET with an outdoor energizer, that involved movement, fun and competition that made us ready for the upcoming day. We jumped into the day with recap of yesterday’s activities, debriefing the process of creating jokes and comedy acts. We shared our feeling, understandings and clarified what wasn’t fully clear…
In the afternoon of the 4th day of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” everyone returned to their groups and collectively learned about some different templates that are commonly used in creating a good joke. Then by following these directions we created comedy acts according to our premises…
We started Day 4 of our training course with 2 energizers to loosen up and be ready for the day. Then we started with a simple exercise of debunking fears and stigmas of doing stand-up comedy and delivering jokes. By writing 3 fears of ours and then expanding on one of our fears to make…
The afternoon sessions of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” started with very much needed movement after the lunch, so we did a musical chairs energizer. Now it was time to discuss and learn about visual perception, verbal and non-verbal communication. We did this through the “Times up”…
The third day of our training course #CATEYEbyCET started nice and fun with a lovely energiser, setting up the stage to dive deeper into the world of humor and comedy. We started by sharing our personal understandings of the terms and what they mean to us. To understand the concept of humor better, we played…
After a wonderful lunch, the afternoon sessions of the second day of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” started with a team-building activity around Krushevo. Split into 5 teams, the task was to exchange a pen for something more valuable with the local residents. We needed to do…
We started the second day of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” with activities to get to know each other better by doing different ice-breakers and name games. Firstly, we said the meaning of our names and an anecdote surrounding our name. Then we did an activity where…