MODULE 6: Appreciating diversity
Have a look at Lana’s Introduction video: https://t1p.de/intro6 (YouTube) The script can be found here: è Script 6.0.
Contents 1. Understanding your limits and abilities
MODULE 6 Appreciating diversity – Recognising limits - Getting support
Input: Personal boundaries are important as they represent the basic guidelines for how you want to be treated (in a safe, acceptable and reasonable way) and how you allow yourself to be treated by others. Self-care without healthy boundaries is impossible.
One of the most important things when set- ting personal boundaries is learning to say “no” when you feel uncomfortable (that is, when your boundaries are being violated) and learning to not be a people-pleaser. Doing so will ultimately be beneficial for the team and the entire project. Saying no is not being selfish, it is active self-care. It can be hard to establish boundaries because you may feel guilty or still need to understand more about your own needs. There are a variety of tools for self-reflection and self-assessment that can help here. Accepting tensions and ambiguities within the team and within yourself Our work and how well we perform are inex- tricably linked with how we feel and act in our team – whether we feel supported, valued or rejected or feel uncertain or not competent enough. Tensions and ambiguities are an in- trinsic part of international youth work. They can occur in teams of educators and facilita- tors or within organisations. Acknowledging them in our day-to-day work is a challenge for everyone involved. Knowing in advance what can be expected and accepting the facts is one step towards resolving these tensions and am- biguities.
# Support: Resources are needed - and available
HEALTHY boundaries allow you to:
Maintain high self-esteem and self-respect Share personal information gradually, in mutually sharing and trusting relation- ships Protect your physical and emotional space from intrusion Maintain equal partnerships where re- sponsibility and power are shared Be assertive and confidently and truthfully say YES or NO and be OK when others say NO to you Separate your needs, thoughts, feelings and desires from those of others, and recognise that your boundaries and needs are different from others’ Empower yourself to make healthy choic- es and take responsibility for yourself. 28
Brief description This module focuses on the mindset of trainers, facilitators and pedagogical staff and explores how they can empower themselves and those they work with to deal with ambiguous, challeng- ing environments. It explores how to recognise one’s own and the organisation’s limits and how to build and use support structures.
Learning objectives
At the end of this module you will have learned that you need and will get support from others to thrive have found out how to identify and respect your limits of progress know how to find support from peers, experienced organisations, networks, sources of funding, etc.
28 Adapted from https://www.theresiliencecentre.com.au/boundaries-why-are-they-important/.
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