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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 Rafa Cortés. I have been working with young people since I was young, for over twenty years. I have always been linked to the field of education and associationism and, for the past 8 years, also, in the field of psychotherapy. I currently work as a therapist specializing in youth and as a teacher in the Axioma Association, of which I am a founding member, and in the leisure time education school Escola Lliure el Sol.

I have a degree in sociology from the UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona), I have a Master's degree in Youth and Society from the UdG (University of Girona) and training in Axiometry with Janine Rodiles, Family Constellations with Marta Albadalejo Mur, Music Therapy with Jordi Delclós and Theatre-Clowning with Pau Rosell.
Being able to accompany young people in their growth and healing processes fills me with satisfaction."

November 1st 2018

The paths of Memories.
Peace and Good.

 

“Moving towards peace and good.”

I work as a trainer and tutor in courses about educational leisure activities for children and young people. […] The sessions I carry out are mentorings, pedagogy, children and teenager participation, psychology, how to work with families, take overs in a monitors team, theatre and emotional education. […] The pedagogy sessions, which are more theoretical and reflexive, are not the same as the theatre ones, which are more dynamic and focus on acquiring ludic and theatrical experiences.                         

To understand what I’m saying, I like to evoke the image of many paths leading to the top of a mountain. These paths, in my case, can be part of an educational or therapeutic field. Within the educational field, these paths can be of pedagogy, participation, theatre, etc.
But all of them lead to the top.

 


In the therapeutic field, these path characteristics are given by the patient’s own traits and background.

In the end, we all want the same, no matter how old we are: living peacefully, living well, being happy. However, each age, each social condition, each biographical and family route give us the ingredients to move forward towards that goal.

In any case, each and every single one of these paths go to the top, including its possibilities and limitations, but all of them lead to the same place if we have our objectives clear in mind.

Rafa Cortés; youth therapist
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