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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.”

November 9th 2018 

     I have recorded some videos that exemplify the process of empowerment. Tamara loves dancing and one day she performed for us in class. She also prepared a zumba lesson for us, and though some of the students were reluctant at the beginning, they all ended up dancing, leaving their prejudice aside and breaking their personal and group barriers. I greatly enjoyed the experience! The constant good mood and motivation were the theme of that day. Young people need motivation and company in the process of breaking restrictive beliefs that don’t allow them to move forward. This can be exemplified with this dance class, but it can be applied to the rest of vital areas and to making important decisions.

This story also exemplifies the importance of following your dreams and working on your passion and talent. Tamara is persistent, and she believes in her possibilities as she auditioned to a Dance Academy, where she would receive formation in dances for videoclips and concerts. She was accepted and she has already begun a new path that’s marked by her dream. 

 

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Another experience that exemplifies the process of empowerment is Sergio’s.He loves illustration and taught us how to draw a comic character. He has low self-esteem, but taking on a leadership role for a day offering us his knowledge resulted an intense experience.I attach some pictures from the process:

Laura Muñoz; career guidance
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