Outside In (2017-2019)
The Outside In project was a strategic partnership within the Erasmus+ programme. It brought together trainers and youth workers from Slovenia, Portugal, Finland, Scotland and Ireland, with 23 participants completing the project. The project started in June 2017 and concluded in May 2019.
The project consisted of several components, including a training programme for trainers on transforming hate in youth work, the development of a handbook, the establishment of an international pool of expert trainers, and the creation of an online platform (www.transforminghate.eu).
What makes this project unique is that all participating learners and trainers came from different minority and marginalised groups and had personal experiences of racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, religious discrimination, class discrimination, and discrimination based on different abilities. Their personal experiences of hate uniquely equipped them to develop and deliver training and create materials addressing hate speech and/or behaviour and transforming it.
Each national team focused on a specific form of discrimination and developed expertise in the area, which was incorporated into the handbook:
- Slovenia: LGBTIQ+ discrimination
- Portugal: Intersectional discrimination
- Finland: Racism
- Scotland: Religious discrimination
- Ireland: Gender-based discrimination
Materials
Transformacija sovraštva v mladinskem delu
Language: Slovenian, English
This Manual is designed to support youth workers engaging with young people who express hateful speech and/or behaviour in youth settings.
It focuses on our practice as youth workers: to become more aware of our communication and listening skills; to understand how we can create safer spaces in youth settings that support learning and change to happen; and to focus on working with those young people that spread hate – through their speech or behaviour – whether they are conscious of doing so or not. The Manual gives us the tools to work towards transformative practice with young people with the aim of bringing about a real change in attitudes and behaviours with young people.
Transformacija sovražnega govora v mladinskem delu
Language: Slovenian, English
This toolkit has been developed to help youth workers transform hate speech and behaviour in youth settings. Hate expressed by words, behaviour and attitudes is a form of violence that can easily be overlooked or ignored. When it is left unchallenged it can become normalised within our society and escalate into physical violence on a larger scale. Challenging hate when it occurs sends a clear message to young people that these attitudes and words are harmful and it takes the dehumanising impact of hate seriously. With the rapid growth of social media, which provides a willing platform, the ways in which hate speech can impact on people in all areas of society have multiplied. There is no widespread clarity on what hate speech is and how to address it. We intend for this toolkit to meet some of these needs by supporting youth workers to have concrete and adaptable tools to enable them to recognise, challenge and ultimately transform hate speech.