The Knight of the Heart
The main aim of The Knight of the Heart Training course for youth workers is to help them develop and integrate in their work the therapeutic metaphor of the Hero's Journey through gamification principles and innovative methods.
The Knight of the Heart it is training course with the aim of including gamification principle in youth work, for personal development purposes. Each working day will have some main objectives:
DAY 1
- Ice breaking activities and teambuilding
- Partner organisations presentations
- The Knight of the Heart - Introduction and getting familiar with the metaphors of the own personal development process
DAY 2
- Recognizing the elements of the transformative journey
- Awareness of own path in the journey
- Intercultural evening
DAY 3
- Challenges in the metaphor of Knight of the Heart - gamification elements
- Knowing the person nearby you - the journey’s companions
DAY 4
- Living the journey and understanding the hidden lessons - the elixir
- Re-writting the journey
- The Knight of the Heart - the gamification process
DAY 5
- Empowering youth for getting into adventure to become the Knight of their heart
- Follow-up activities - methodology
- Evaluation & conclusions
- Youthpass & Celebration
At the end of this training course you will understand how to gamify a metaphorical transformative process and you will have a learning and personal development tool, using the imagination and the fantasy.