Project:

Scope

Description: Promoting resilience inside and outside of school in order to strengthen educational equality for newly immigrated and refugee children and young people in Germany.
Period: 01.03.2024 - 31.12.2026
E-Mail: healing.classrooms@rescue.org

Description:
Promoting resilience and psychosocial support for children and young people with refugee experience

E-Mail:
healing.classrooms@rescue.org

Approach

Together with the SchlaU workshop For migration education, we support schools and extracurricular educational institutions in designing resilience-promoting, strength-oriented and inclusive learning spaces. These spaces are needed so that children and young people can learn well, try things out and develop in a self-determined way - especially if they have been or continue to be exposed to severe stress due to a history of flight and/or migration. As direct caregivers and designers of learning spaces, educational professionals play an important role in this. With this in mind, we would like to create spaces with school and non-school educational professionals to exchange knowledge and experiences, reflect on their own educational activities and go into practical implementation.

Voices of participants

Through the workshops, the teachers can become aware that schools can do a lot for the students [...] and they realize that they are already doing a lot of trauma-sensitive work and that this knowledge can help ALL students, not just those with refugee experience. 

The workshop series offers the opportunity to reflect on the work with pupils and to learn perspectives and methods that are often neglected in everyday school life.

My colleague and I pay a lot of attention to our students and already take a few points from the approach into account, and now the whole thing has a name: Healing Classrooms

I learned a lot, both theoretically and practically. I was able to apply some of it directly. It enriches my pedagogical toolbox.

Implementation locations:

Berlin

Hamburg

Bavaria

North Rhine-Westphalia

Saxony-Anhalt

Lower Saxony

Who our offers are for:

For educational professionals in schools and extracurricular facilities.

Languages offered:

  • German
  • English (on request)

Costs:

Thanks to project funding from the Asylum, migration and integration fund our offers are free of charge.

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Activities

Take a moment and think about which child from your work context would benefit from practicing affirmations. Then take a look at the Affirmation card set of the Vor-Sprung project and select a card that suits this child. Think about how you can use this card to work together with the child. Again, use the pen and paper you have provided

 

The child I'm thinking of always tries very hard not to make mistakes. If he does make a mistake, the reaction is very strong. The child often reacts with great anger, which it directs at itself and sometimes also at others.

Please take a moment and have a look at the Affirmation card set of the Vor-Sprung project.

Then select a card that suits this child. Think about how you can use this card to work together with the child. Again, use the pen and paper you have provided.

Take a moment to answer the following questions about the affirmation you have chosen. You are welcome to use the pen and paper provided.

➡️ Which affirmation have you chosen?

➡️ How does the selected affirmation make you feel?

➡️ What negative belief could be behind this affirmation? Or how could you reformulate the selected affirmation into a negative one?

➡️ Can you remember where this negative belief came from? From your parents? From school?

➡️ Where does this negative belief limit you? Where does it make your life difficult or prevent you from doing something?