The Program

From the April 20th to April 29th this learning experience will take place at the Village of Zarzalejo. A ten day full-day program where you are invited to experience an Oasis Game, a unique methodology developed by Instituto Elos de Brasil to empower communities, transforming their environment and creating socio-environmental positive impact, mobilizing local talents and resources, boosting bottom-up community development in a playfull way.





Pictures from the Experience Oasis El Ruedo by GSA Madrid. Photo credits: Ana Pardo.

Wanna know more about the Oasis Game. Here some experiences.
 
But the Oasis Game its more than a social technique to mobilize communities. Its a leadership training for social entrepreneurs, looking forward to inspire participants to get involved in finding collaborative and creative solutions to deal with the global challenges we are facing.






 




 
Pictures from Some experiences of Oasis Game experiences and activities based on Elos Philosophy. Photo credits: Instituto Elos, GSA Madrid and Elos Nederlands.
 
The Goals for the participants of the Programme are:
 
-  Offer youth from rural areas, a training and experiential opportunity to develop competences of social entrepreneurs in a multicultural environment. A space for knowledge and learnings exchange, to reflect and pass to action, a place to offer solution for current global challenges.
-  To make rural youth visible as key agents towards generating social change in a multicultural environment.
 -  To allow the participants to experience a dynamic and vibrant way to engage communities in  participatory processes with the implementation of collaborative solutions, so that they can apply new practices in their work and personal lives.
-   Encourage participants to experience and understand the Elos Philosophy and Oasis Game Methodology as an opportunity to boost local development processes, from a first hands-on practical action.
 
During the learning-by-doing training you learn about the Elos philosophy, are coached to gain the attitude of community action, learn to use tools for community-building, co-creative design and playfull ways of engaging the community and get more familiar with using the steps of the methodology to realize community dreams.