Green ALF - summer 2019
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dates:
11 - 19 July 2019 |
daily schedule:
9 am - 4 pm |
location: Green School,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
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Join us for 8 days of learning, unlearning and relearining:
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Our Green kids will be there to learn with you
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Join us in Agile Learning Facilitator training programme
"Education is the sum of everything a person learns that enables that person to live a satisfying and meaningful life. Self-Directed Education is education that derives from the self-chosen activities and life experiences of the person becoming educated, whether or not those activities were chosen deliberately for the purpose of education." The Alliance of Self-Directed Education.
In Agile Learning Centers, the facilitators make sure that the children and youth have all the optimal conditions to learn freely, with intention, playfulness, planfulness, curiosity, creativity, critical thinking and agility.
Take a look at what is Self-directed Education, what is the Agile Learning model and how learning in nature can have amazing benefits for people. If you intend to change the way you are involved in education - as an educator: teacher, trainer, professor, youth worker, animator, facilitator, parent, join us in this self-directed endeavour, in Cluj-Napoca, mid July.
Our programme is structured in 2 parts: 1) "Roots" - bringing the opportunity to discover the foundations of Agile Learning and 2) "Trunk and branches" - going deeper into the educational philosophy or have the full experience participating in both ("Tree") to unlearn and relearn how learning, education and school could be. As Nature is our home and our best facilitator, the forest education experience will complete the understanding of "natural learning, in nature".
In Agile Learning Centers, the facilitators make sure that the children and youth have all the optimal conditions to learn freely, with intention, playfulness, planfulness, curiosity, creativity, critical thinking and agility.
Take a look at what is Self-directed Education, what is the Agile Learning model and how learning in nature can have amazing benefits for people. If you intend to change the way you are involved in education - as an educator: teacher, trainer, professor, youth worker, animator, facilitator, parent, join us in this self-directed endeavour, in Cluj-Napoca, mid July.
Our programme is structured in 2 parts: 1) "Roots" - bringing the opportunity to discover the foundations of Agile Learning and 2) "Trunk and branches" - going deeper into the educational philosophy or have the full experience participating in both ("Tree") to unlearn and relearn how learning, education and school could be. As Nature is our home and our best facilitator, the forest education experience will complete the understanding of "natural learning, in nature".
Possibilities
At Green School we learn the self-directed way, including at the events for adults. This means we are not designing a great training script that is supposed to "fit all", but we are creating learning spaces for you to be able to plan, discover, understand, create, practice, question, argue, justify, develop, reflect, share.
Our facilitators who are making the offerings are all trained in Agile Learning and are coming from different organisations, with different perspectives.
Among the offerings you can find:
When thinking what you can offer as experiences, consider that we are going to use the Green School spaces: indoor (training rooms, living rooms, garage - maker space, kitchen) and outdoor (gazebo, pedagogical garden, sensorial garden, hammock area, the hill) and surroundings (the Someș river is 2 minutes away and the forest 15-20 minutes away - walking distances). For the "Trunk and branches" we are using different parts of the city as learning spaces.
You can also join the offerings of 4 of the Green School facilitators, a group of parents and a group of Green School children.
In both of the trainings, "Roots" and "Trunk and branches", we will host learners of different ages (children, youth and adults), different learning styles, different personalities, different genders, different religions, different political views. Please consider that Green School is a safe space for people who can be however and whoever they want to be. We are a discrimination free and a consent-based, safe culture. We trust ourselves, our colleagues and the Green School, we take care of ourselves, of our colleagues and of the Green School, our opinion matters.
Our facilitators who are making the offerings are all trained in Agile Learning and are coming from different organisations, with different perspectives.
Among the offerings you can find:
- agile learning - the tree model,
- agile learning tools and instruments,
- self-directed educational philosophies,
- circle of security and attachment theories,
- forest education,
- how to start an agile learning group,
- how to start an agile learning centre,
- communication and public relations in a new ALC,
- financial aspects of a start-up group,
- woodcrafting,
- biomimicry and others
When thinking what you can offer as experiences, consider that we are going to use the Green School spaces: indoor (training rooms, living rooms, garage - maker space, kitchen) and outdoor (gazebo, pedagogical garden, sensorial garden, hammock area, the hill) and surroundings (the Someș river is 2 minutes away and the forest 15-20 minutes away - walking distances). For the "Trunk and branches" we are using different parts of the city as learning spaces.
You can also join the offerings of 4 of the Green School facilitators, a group of parents and a group of Green School children.
In both of the trainings, "Roots" and "Trunk and branches", we will host learners of different ages (children, youth and adults), different learning styles, different personalities, different genders, different religions, different political views. Please consider that Green School is a safe space for people who can be however and whoever they want to be. We are a discrimination free and a consent-based, safe culture. We trust ourselves, our colleagues and the Green School, we take care of ourselves, of our colleagues and of the Green School, our opinion matters.
The training programme:
Roots - foundations training course (3 days)
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dates: 11 - 13 July 2019
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schedule: 9.00 am - 4.00 pm
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price: 250 euro (~1200 lei)
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Three days of possibilities to met people from around the world and discover with them the foundations of Agile Learning. We will meet every morning at 9.00, have a light breakfast together and set intentions for the day. You can create or join different offerings in order to have a good day and to learn according to your own intentions. At the end of the day we reflect on our processes and we express final thoughts for the experiences. Our facilitators, children and 4 of the Green School facilitators will make their offerings around the topics: education, learning, schooling, pedagogy, andragogy, self-directed education, agile learning, agile learning methodology and tools, forest education, green schooling, EQ games.
Trunk and branches - training course (8 days)
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dates: 11 - 13 July & 15 - 19 July 2019
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schedule: 9.00 am - 4.00 pm
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price: 650 euro (~3100 lei)
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After participating in "Roots" you can go deeper into understanding Agile Learning philosophy, experiencing a typical school week, within the cycle: intention, creation, reflecting and sharing.
We go deeper into understanding pedagogical tools and methods that children, youth and adults can learn from, by themselves or with others (with or without educators).
We go deeper into understanding pedagogical tools and methods that children, youth and adults can learn from, by themselves or with others (with or without educators).
Facilitators
Sonia
Sonia is the educational architect of Green School Romania, a k-4 (soon to be k-12) school, that she co-founded after gaining her PhD in Educational Sciences (2013) from University of Bucharest and University of Vienna. She started to study and research the value of nature-based education programmes in 2003 and, with time, became an advocate for progressive education, nature-based education and self-directed learning.
She participated in multiple international training events in non-formal and formal learning contexts and in 2018 she did her ALF Summer training in New York with NY ALC, after creating already self-directed learning contexts. Sonia is an educational animator, trained in the French system (both in Romania and in France), with extensive socio-educational animation experience, being specialised in theatre (shadow theatre and black light theatre) and animation for inclusion and anti-discrimination. Trained in psychodrama, Sonia is using her experience in creating learning spaces for children, youth and adults. As a senior trainer in educational sciences, she has a long-term collaboration with Romanian National Agency for Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps. As a teacher trainer, her personal mission is to offer a different, research-based, perspective for schooling, deschooling, unschooling, world schooling, in nature, with nature, for nature. |
Luiza
For the past 6 years Luiza has been part of the Alternative University, a freedom-centered student learning community aimed at helping students take responsibility for their own learning process while developing a self-directed mindset. Her experience at the Alternative University supported her to be part of KEN Academy (www.kenacademy.org), a program whose purpose is to help kids learn and develop life and entrepreneurial skills. She has been an educator and curriculum architect for six years and she has been working with children from 6 to 13 years old. She is a Communication & Public Relations and Dance Movement Psychotherapy graduate. Recently she was certified in Social Emotional Learning and Character Development at Rutgers University, US.
Last year she decided to start a learning journey around the world in order to visit and learn from innovative and inspirational learning communities and schools. So she discovered Agile Learning and took the ALF training in Barcelona, then she had the chance to visit and learn from a few Agile Learning Schools in Mexico. She believes that learning happens all the time and she wants to create a space that invites children to learn in their own way and rhythm, a place where they have a voice and take the responsibility for their learning. That's why this year she is starting her own Agile School in Bucharest. |
Mihaela
Mihaela has always been in a rich process of multifaceted, whole-spectrum, personal development. Going from languages to business, from life coaching to neurolinguistic programming, from parenting and education to meditation and yoga.
Being an avid reader, writer, dreamer, explorer and creative human being, she loves to give back to individuals their sense of agency and supports young people in finding their unique voice and define their personal way of expression and growth. In 2016, after an intensive program held by the Agile Learning Center of New York, she became educational facilitator and at the beginning of this year she joined the Social Science and Counselling Skills programme held by the International Foundation for the Advancement of Reflective Learning and Teaching. You might want to go find her if you are looking for a boost of energy or need a hug, or want to prepare the perfect gnocchi with pesto sauce, or have a crazy project in your mind that you want to materialise, or want to paint, or saw or write… or improve your imagination and creativity, or simply talk … about pretty much everything :) |
Claudia
Claudia, parent of a Green School child, is an entrepreneur in education, interested in development of the innovative alternatives to the traditional system. She is a trained Educator for 0-3 years children - Diploma earned from Association Montessori Inter- national. She participated at an ALC Workshop in Barcelona and was a facilitator at ALC Start-up Lab in Cluj Napoca in 2017. She is a member of the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. She has a Bachelor Degree in Law from Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and holds Diplomas in Project Management and Trainee of Trainers.
She is passionate about education, nature, kindness and sustainability. Her desire is to contribute to a sustainable world by offering a true education for life. |
Supporters of GREEN ALF training:
During our "Roots" and "Trunk and branches" trainings some of the community members will make offerings in our shared kanban. You can talk with them and connect with their experiences.
The community members that will join us are ALFs in our kindergarten and school, parents of some Green School children and children learning in our organisation.
The community members that will join us are ALFs in our kindergarten and school, parents of some Green School children and children learning in our organisation.
Green School facilitators
Bianca
ALF at the school
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Greta
ALF at the kindergarten
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Radu
ALF at the kindergarten
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Sorana
ALF at the school
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Green Families that will join us
Gog family
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Sângeorgean family
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Your financial contribution
If you decide to enrol, please complete the form below. After submitting the form you will be contacted by our colleague Ilona (ilona@green-school.ro). The financial contribution is 250 euro for "Roots" (3 day training course) and 650 euro for the full experience, "Trunk and branches" (8 days training course -> including "Roots"). Payment options will be detailed in the confirmation message.
Your financial contribution offers you:
If you are going to be accompanied by your child/ children, an additional fee of 10 euro/ day./ child is perceived for participation.
Your financial contribution offers you:
- participation in the training;
- plenty of materials to use in your creation & learning processes;
- office supplies needed in the process;
- light breakfast, lunch and coffee and tea;
- training course participant kit;
- bus & entry tickets for different learning environments for the "Trunk and branches" training.
If you are going to be accompanied by your child/ children, an additional fee of 10 euro/ day./ child is perceived for participation.
Enrol
In order to enroll, follow the below steps:
1. Fill in the below form;
2. Read the email from Green School;
3. Make the payment
4. Receive the invitation & confirmation letter for the event.
1. Fill in the below form;
2. Read the email from Green School;
3. Make the payment
4. Receive the invitation & confirmation letter for the event.
How to get to Green School, in Cluj-Napoca
Green School is located in Grigorescu neighbourhood, Bucura Alley, no. 22, in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania.
You can arrive at Green School by:
bus:
bus station Radio Cluj/ Piața Grigorescu (5-7 minutes walking distance from the school):
If you are joining from abroad, consider:
car sharing: BlaBlaCar
train: CFR (Romanian Train Company), OEBB (Austrian Train Company) or MAV (Hungarian Train Company)
buses: Flixbus
airports: Cluj Avram Iancu International Airport (connected by bus). Other options: Târgu Mureș airport (2 hours away from Cluj-Napoca), Baia Mare airport (2 hours and 30 min away), Sibiu airport (3 hours away) or Bucharest airport (6 hours away by car/ 50 min away by plane).
You can arrive at Green School by:
bus:
bus station Radio Cluj/ Piața Grigorescu (5-7 minutes walking distance from the school):
- from Zorilor/ Mănăștur bus 43 or 43b
- from Mărăști/ City Centre bus 30
- from the train station (Gară) bus 27
- from Bd.-ul Muncii bus 26 or 26l
- from (P-ța) Mihai Viteazul bus 28 or 28b
- from (P-ța) 1 Mai bus 41
- use the bike lane from Donath street (connected with the bike lanes across the city)
If you are joining from abroad, consider:
car sharing: BlaBlaCar
train: CFR (Romanian Train Company), OEBB (Austrian Train Company) or MAV (Hungarian Train Company)
buses: Flixbus
airports: Cluj Avram Iancu International Airport (connected by bus). Other options: Târgu Mureș airport (2 hours away from Cluj-Napoca), Baia Mare airport (2 hours and 30 min away), Sibiu airport (3 hours away) or Bucharest airport (6 hours away by car/ 50 min away by plane).
Discover our community
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Green School is located in the city of Cluj-Napoca, in Cluj county. With a population of 325000, Cluj-Napoca is the most important city in Transylvania and the one of the largest cities in Romania, after the capital city, Bucharest. The city is located in the NV of the country, minutes away from Apuseni mountains and Someș plateau. With a beautiful botanical garden and several smaller inside the city, Cluj-Napoca is surrounded by forests, crossed by the Someș river and is home for Romanians, Hungarians (as the biggest minority), Germans (second largest minority of the city) and many foreigners that have chosen to live in Cluj.
Cluj-Napoca hosts 11 universities, including the largest and the highest ranked university in the country, "Babes-Bolyai" University. Many foreigners choose Cluj for their studies, not only for one semester or one year in a mobility program, but for all the length of a university program. Many of them decide to remain in the city after their studies and many other specialists move here for their careers. According to Urban Audit, a research project (2012), Cluj-Napoca is the friendliest city for foreign people in Europe. While in Cluj-Napoca, consider visiting:
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