Hopeland [May-October 2021] ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท

~ The never-ending summer ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒก

๐Ÿ”ธ This summer was way different than the usual ones becauseโ€ฆ ฮ•ฮปฯ€ฮนฮดฮฟฯ‡ฯŽฯฮน / Hopeland happened
๐Ÿ”ธ Restarting the offline (youth) work after 15 months
๐Ÿ”ธ Hosting 3 eco-volunteering teams in the frame of European Solidarity Corps that really shifted and upgraded the vibes of Hopeland forever.
๐Ÿ”ธ Executing 2 covid-postponed Erasmus+ Youth Exchanges with a common element the disconnection from technologies.
๐Ÿ”ธ Hosting individuals, groups, students and other NGOs offering to the them the off-grid experience for a while.
๐Ÿ”ธ Making work with colleagues and friends to a joyful ride that actually doesnโ€™t feel like work was magical.
๐Ÿ”ธ Unexpectedly acquiring skills that I would have never imagined or even wished (eg. woodwork, permaculture, eco-building, water treatment, heavy machinery, renewable energies etc)
๐Ÿ”ธ Living the village life for the first time in my life and connecting with locals in such a pure and human way.
๐Ÿ’๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”?๐Ÿ’
Sustainability is not a goal but a never-ending process.

๐ŸŽ–๏ธ This was my contribution to ๐—›๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ก๐—š๐—ข as a board member within the frame of multiple projects (Greenovation, ReAct, Out of Spiral, Unplugged) and other activities in 1-second-shots ๐Ÿคณ

๐Ÿ“† 25th of May – 18th of October 2021


๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ #ShoutOut to the amazing colleagues we worked together Martins, Paula, Cathy, Athanasia, Zsรณfi, Michaela, Veso, Katerina, Vojta, Rebeka, Damianos, Michal, Fabrizio, Merche and of course ฮ•ฯฮฑฯ„ฯŽ
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ #Gratitude to those amazing locals who selflessly contributed to this amazing success Aki, ฮ—ฮปฮนฮฌฮฝฮฑ, Dimitris, Thanasis, Maria, Giorgos and in general all the local community of Malantreni which actively embraced our efforts

#1SEme #1secondchallenge #trainerslife #Justanotherdayintheoffice #Summer2021 #ReACT #Greenovation #OutOfSpiral #Unplugged #erasmusplus #EuropeanSolidarityCorps #nonformaleducation #Hopeland #HopelandGreece #ฮ•ฮปฯ€ฮนฮดฮฟฯ‡ฯŽฯฮน Mamouzakis.com

Music: INOSSI – Runaway

ReACT: Training for Trainers [February 2020] ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

~ Back to the Basi(c)s ๐Ÿ›ฌ๐Ÿซ

๐Ÿ”‹ Back to the place where I transformed my passion (volunteer scout โšœ๏ธ) into a profession (freelance trainer ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ)
๐Ÿ”‹ First training of the decade and I put myself back to the co-trainer role. So refreshing and so challenging at the same time
๐Ÿ”‹ Working together with 48 trainers in the same group is always sparkly
๐Ÿ”‹ I had the chance and the field to play and push with provocative and lazy coaching with my reflection group and it was so enjoyable (thank you people ๐ŸคŸ)
๐Ÿ”‹ Working in that team room and designing a training programme is still so inspiring.
๐Ÿ”‹ Admiring the growth of ex-learners of mine, that now became my teachers is just magnificent!
๐Ÿ”‹ Extension of the Erasmus+ deadline that I was battling came as a relief and gave me the possibility to finally apply a dream project that I had in my drawers through Roes Coop.
๐Ÿ”‹ What is Roes Coop? ๐Ÿ‘‰ When I arrived in the training I was a freelance trainer. Halfway the training I got the news that the social cooperative enterprise I co-founded is finally registered.
โฏ๏ธ Isn’t it the best place to become officially a social entrepreneur?
๐Ÿ’What was my main learning?๐Ÿ’
If I want to make something pro bono, I have to make it at least funny for me. (…and shit loads of other things that I need another post to explain).

๐ŸŽ–๏ธ This was ๐‘๐ž๐€๐‚๐“ – ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ training course part of ReACT KA2 project aiming to educate trainers on delivering meaningful training activities in order to combat unemployment in 1-second-shots ๐Ÿคณ

๐Ÿ“† 1-5 February 2020

1SEme #1secondchallenge #trainerslife #Justanotherdayintheoffice #ReACT #trainingcourse #TrainingforTrainers #erasmusplus #Netherlands #OldeVechteFoundation #RoesCoop #WhatIsYourStream #nonformaleducation Olde Vechte Foundation Mamouzakis.com
music: Fresh Body Shop – Destination (Feat. Alice)

Vision Ahead: media and promo skills for NGOs and Social Entreprises [December 2019] ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ

~ The best way to close a circle is to open a new one ๐Ÿ“ผ๐Ÿ”œ๐Ÿ“€

๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ The last training of the decade was a media training, the type of training that inspired me to start doing trainings.
๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ This time with a #Roadtrip on the menu with 2000km ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ and my car’s plate dry clutch broken and repaired โš™๏ธ
๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ During 7 days of training, we created 66 videos.
๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ 5 of them are Social Promotional videos for non-profit organizations in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ All these we did with frugal production tricks (smartphones, gorillapods, lots of paper tape, and any equipment and prop available)
๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ The group had the chance to interact with the participants of the previous and the next group by preparing video messages. ๐ŸŠ
๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ During the time of the training, I had the chance and the honour to fund my first social entity – more news soon ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ
๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ This time I worked with a team of co-trainers and we had the chance to elevate the learning more while developing and supporting a social startup on the side of the training. – again more news soon. ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ
๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ Another year of trainings in now ended and along with it the success of capturing all of them in 1-second shots videos. In total 6094 seconds of memorable learning moments of 2019.
๐Ÿ’What was my main learning?๐Ÿ’
Teams utilise learning the most and bring an extra perspective and synergy.
#Conlusion: Ready to take over 2020 with my dream team!

๐ŸŒณ This was ๐•๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐€๐ก๐ž๐š๐: ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐š ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐†๐Ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ training course program aiming to create social impact through video making in 1-second-shots ๐Ÿคณ

๐Ÿ“† 7-15 December 2019

#1SEme #1secondchallenge #trainerslife #Justanotherdayintheoffice #VisionAheadTC #trainingcourse #MediaLiteracy #erasmusplus #Bulgaria #SmokinyaFoundation #BreakTheCouch #RoesCoop #WhatIsYourStream #nonformaleducation #adventuretime #SocialImpact #BTCAcademy #GuerillaFilmmaking #๐ŸŽฅ๐Ÿš€ Break The Couch ะคะพะฝะดะฐั†ะธั ะกะผะพะบะธะฝั / Smokinya Foundation Mamouzakis.com


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