Transforming Hate in Youth Work Settings

• Do you see and hear hateful language and behaviour in your youth work setting?
• Do you wonder about the best ways to respond that will be transformative for the person causing the harm and keeps the targets of hate safe and supported?
• Can it be hard to identify and name what you’ve observed as hateful: sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, disablist, faith based hate etc.?
• Can it be hard to manage it?
• Is it hard to challenge it?

This course is delivered by a team of Trainers who worked with the National Youth Council of Ireland, in partnership with 4 European organisations- Peace Institute (Finland), Ljubljana Pride (Slovenia), Interfaith Scotland (UK), Hamoment (Portugal) on an innovative Erasmus+ funded project exploring how to transform hate in youth work settings. The Irish training team, representing Rialto Youth Project, Youth Work Ireland Meath, YMCA Cork, Involve Meath and Irish Red Cross Cork bring their professional youth worker expertise, together with their personal lived experiences and journeys of identity based discrimination to deliver this relevant, innovative and practice based training.

• You will have a better understanding on how to recognise incidences of hate within your youth work setting.
• You will build your skill set on how to tackle hateful incidences conflict in your youth work settings.
• You will use tools that can be used to transform hateful language and behaviours.