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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.”

June 3rd, 2019

 

         Two days ago, I had a tutoring session with a young man who is not getting around in search for a job despite the fact that the summer season is already well under way. We have made work plans, job hunting plans, worked with web portals, tools, channels, we have updated his CV… but he does not feel the impulse to go out and be proactive in order to hand in CVs and present his application.

 We have had many tutorials because, as a professional, I detect that there is something preventing him from going out and looking for a job. At our last meeting, we made a list of everything we thought was preventing him from

leaving the house. He told me:

“I wake up and I have my computer here… my house traps me, my room is my temple and I feel much better inside than outside the house”.


We made a list of all the obstacles and resistance that he detected, while, at the same time, to counteract this, we made a list of the motivations he had to find a job. He was telling me:

“I want to help at home, I want to have money to pay for my driving license, I want to feel useful…”.

This second list helped us reflect on which things he could use to combat “how good I feel at home” and have the initiative to go out and find a job.

I try to adapt a lot when mentoring, and if I feel like the situation requires it, I don’t do the tutorials in a formal space, but in a more informal space or during a walk. This allows them to breathe, connect with the present and relativise their concerns.

Laura Muñoz; career guidance
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