Training for Volunteer Coordinators
FUNDACJA Q warmly invites you to a series of free training sessions for volunteer coordinators. These sessions are designed both for active, experienced coordinators and for people who are just beginning to work with volunteers. You are welcome to register for one selected session, several of them, or all of them. Training sessions will be held online or in person.
If you coordinate a team of volunteers in an NGO, lead a school volunteer club, coordinate volunteering in scouting, or want to learn how to manage your team better, organise volunteering in line with the law, recruit volunteers, or understand social media tools, these sessions are for you.
You may register for one session, several sessions, or all of them. Participation is completely free. All you need is a good attitude and a willingness to learn.
Training options
1. Organising Volunteering in an Institution: Long-Term Volunteering in a Nutshell
Trainer: Gabriela Cmela, Solidarity Corps trainer, culture animator, and volunteer coordinator at Fundacja Q. At Fundacja Q she has worked on projects such as City NGO, EKO TECH LAB, and Fundacja Q for Ukraine.
After the training, participants will understand:
- what the Solidarity Corps is and how it works
- the specifics of volunteering, including long-term volunteering
- how to work with volunteers
- how to prepare an organisation’s team to cooperate with volunteers
- what motivates volunteers and how to reward them
- how to coordinate volunteering in compliance with the law
The training will take place over two meetings of 4 teaching hours each.
Date: 17-18.11.2022, 12:00-15:00
Format: Online
2. Workshop: Tools and Techniques for Effective Team Communication
Trainer: Lukasz Slowik, activist, animator, and trainer. He gained communication experience through many years of work as a guide and coordinator of initiatives at the Invisible Exhibition, and as the creator and coordinator of social initiatives for people with visual impairments. He currently works as a communication specialist at Fundacja Q.
During the workshop, participants will:
- learn about message features that affect how effectively communication is received
- learn about different types of messages and when each works best
- face communication challenges and understand possible problems and their consequences
- get to know free tools for effective remote team communication
- reflect on the challenges of using communication tools that are poorly matched to a situation
Date: 23.11, Wednesday, 12:00-15:00
Location: Fundacja Q office in Rzeszow, Al. Tadeusza Rejtana 53, Full Market, unit 47
Limit: 10 participants, first come, first served
3. Interpersonal Relations: Team Communication, Conflict Management, and Leadership
Trainer: Sana Vitvitska, psychologist, cognitive skills trainer, Deputy Head of the Rzeszow office, and WHO MHPSS project coordinator at Fundacja Q. At Fundacja Q she has worked on projects such as:
- Fundacja Q for Ukraine, a financial assistance project supporting people affected by the refugee crisis, delivered in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Safe Space 2.0, a psychological support project delivered in cooperation with WHO (MHPSS)
- IT Needs / Citizens’ Reading Room, a project providing or lending laptops to organisations and individuals for educational purposes, carried out in cooperation with the HP Global Business Coalition for Education
After the session, participants will gain knowledge about:
- psychological theories related to interpersonal communication
- group dynamics, teamwork, and possible team dysfunctions
- listening, receiving messages, and responding to them
- expressing and managing emotions
- building healthy interpersonal relationships in the workplace
- effective team communication and creating a climate of understanding and cooperation
- sources of disruption or barriers in interpersonal communication
- conflicts in intergroup relations, styles of responding to conflict, and ways of dealing with it
- positive leadership in organisations and values-based management
- planning actions that help build healthy interpersonal relations within a team
Date: 22.11, Tuesday, 12:00-15:00
Format: Online
We will email links for the online sessions the day before each training.
The trainings are part of the Local Partnership for Volunteering, 2021-2023 edition, under the Solidarity Corps programme, of which we are a partner.
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