Seminar for Youth Workers on Mediation, Pesaro, Italy

The week from the 13th to the 19th March 2017 the Italian NGO Vicolocorto hosted in Pesaro participants of “First ADR Kit” on the Seminar on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Youth Work. The participants met again 6 months after the first meeting in Worcester, UK, and the activities and the Italian sun contributed to their well-being throughout the process.

From the beginning it was clear that they all wanted to challenge themselves and try to concretely create new tools to use, in order to give back what they had learned. We can say that their enthusiasm was contagious. From the beginning every country had its chance to express their opinions and share ideas. Everyone shared with the plenary the good practices they had already started to put into practice in their associations, and it was clear that they all thought this wasn’t enough, they still needed a lot of hard-work and a pretty full week in order to create something innovative and valuable.

This was for sure a very intense week, that brought to the conclusion of the second phase of the project. If we had to resume the whole seminar with three words, that would be for sure inspiration, cooperation and creativity.