Our slogan ‘It’s all about LifeDreams’ defines our overall objective very clearly in supporting young people in their pursuit to achieve their professional and personal goals. Over the years we have developed a modular structure to deliver this scheme integrated in all our national and international programmes fostering learning and achievement of young adults. Many of them are going through challenges in their life or have experienced great obstacles in the past such as unemployment, learning difficulties, domestic discord, homelessness and displacement.
The schemes offer them tools to face challenges in a meaningful and confident way, experience independence, cooperation, support and friendship with their peers at the same time. It is core to our work and contributes to the high success rates of integration, inclusion and rehabilitation of young people going through our programmes. Based on Embrace collective ethics, vision and practice everyone working and volunteering for the organization work on their individual life dream so that whatever we share is real and authentic. Therefore we provide an atmosphere of kindness, respect, acceptance, understanding and encouragement for everyone who comes to embark on this challenging journey to be the best one can be.
A lot of perseverance, determination, focus, self-disciple and tolerance is needed in conjunction with the appreciation that there is a whole network of support available from Embrace whenever they needed. The LifeDream Scheme is an empowering and youth-led approach to find ones own strength, foster abilities and specialties, understanding and dealing effectively with ones barriers and obstacles and set targets and make practical plans for the future. It provides various avenues of potential solutions and how to go about in grounded way.
We use methods of experiential learning through interactive workshops and activities, reflection techniques, expression via interactive media/ performing art, peer sharing, peer mentoring, professional mentoring, field-trips, challenging tasks such a presenting and speaking in front of groups in mother tongue and/or the language of the host country and finally to sharing ones LifeDream with others so that it will happen.
