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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.”

February 27th, 2019
Follow-up

 

Sergio arrived to the interview that we have with all the young people in the Centre de Noves Oportunitats with a low self-esteem and a low concept of himself. From the start, I knew that we had to strengthen his strong points and make them evident to him, so he could be aware of his own potential. He had nothing clear about what to do with his life, he only knew he likes illustration, but he couldn’t work on that professionally due to the lack of specific training. Moreover, due to personal reasons, he couldn’t afford design studies. He was frustrated, confused, and unmotivated. 

Analysing this situation, we considered the possibility of starting a gardening formation. He accepted, although he wasn’t entirely convinced. 

Finally, gardening has become a profession in which he sees his two objectives being realized: having a professional formation with which he can earn a living mid-term (allowing him to invest in design studies) and he can express his inner creativity. His self-esteem has risen, as well as his motivation towards his future and his self-confidence. That is why I consider this experience to be a clear case of young empowerment.

Laura Muñoz; career guidance
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