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Climb up wherever you are. Your path is like a scrapbook, a handful of pages to revisit, decisions made, inadvertent high scores and lucky mistakes. What factors have brought you to where you are?

Orbital Logbooks allows you to browse through a collage of impressions that ten professionals from the field of education have collected over the course of a year in their field journals.

The journey is an infinite, circular itinerary, which we encourage you to follow as you like so that you lose yourself in the different stages that make up the landscape of empowerment.

Orbital logbooks
Empowerment is a continuous, infinite journey. The circle you will see next aims to be its representation. In it are situated, in the form of coloured circumferences, the different stages of the empowerment process that ten professionals in the field of education have defined with their thoughts and reflections. By selecting them, you will be able to see what stage they refer to and you will discover the materials made to describe it.

The different colours correspond to three types of resources:
The green circumferences contain pages from field journals.
The orange ones, audio-visual pieces on specific topics, recorded by the educators themselves.
The yellow ones contain fragments of four focus groups where participants shared experiences.

Through these materials, you will be able to delve into the meaning of a term as abstract and multifaceted as that of youth empowerment; circulating through its stages, from prior reflection to the evaluation of the results obtained.

In the menu on the top right, you can learn more about the project and also access an archive of the materials, where you can filter them by specific concepts and interests.
This page has been elaborated following the recommendations of the use of non-sexist language. Therefore, as far as possible, we have used generic expressions that include gender diversity.
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"My name is Laura Muñoz and I've been a social educator for more than 10 years, by both vocation and conviction. My passion is being able to accompany people in improving their quality of life and to promote their empowerment and independence.

In recent years, I have directed my work towards young people working in the UEC (Shared Schooling Unit), in the supervised apartment accommodation for the promotion of independence, in the Espai Jove, a centre for young people, and as a technical expert for occupational and training guidance in programs of the SOC (Catalan Employment Office) in the Garantia Juvenil (Youth program) such as the Centre for new opportunities and the Singulars project. I am currently the person responsible for youth employment in Palafrugell Town Council and I support young people in improving their employability in order to encourage them to enter the work market.”

January 24th, 2019

 

          In the previous focus group, Rafa talked about a subject that he takes a lot into account when deciding the activities, actions and dynamics he will conduct: self-evaluation, meaning, “how I am today, how I feel and what I can provide with my current state.”

Sometimes I had prepared a particular session, but I have found myself more inspired to explain or work on other topics that day, either because it has made me reflect personally or because something has happened during class that allows to work in detail on a subject I hadn’t planned before on my program.

With this I’m not saying planning is not

necessary; it is very much so, in the sense that it provides security and sense to the classes.

The complexity of my program and the profile of the young people that we guide (absent and at risk of social exclusion) require me to have flexibility and the ability to adapt myself constantly. I have to anticipate and observe before starting a class so that I can make the most of these sessions, and favor assimilation of the knowledge I’m interested to focus their attention in each class.

But I would like to emphasize the importance of my daily self-recognition, the fact that I have to direct the focus on me to be honest with myself and the people I work with, detecting the things I can offer depending on how I feel.

Clearly, it is also necessary to plan, taking into account the group’s personality and individual needs, and adapting the planning to the program’s objectives in which I’m working on.

In short, I think it is important to have clear where you want to go (your goal), but knowing how to get there smoothly (the process).

Laura Muñoz; career guidance
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