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Resilience Tolokas
Hibuki-School
Community Resilience Models
EdCamp Academy for Students, Teachers and Parents
Mine safety
War Fault Lines. Can We Sew Them Together?
Learn to Speak English with Hallo!
Open Resiliency Space
Thematic Expert Materials on Sensitive Topics
Addresses by Famous People to Ukrainians
My War. Lessons for the Humanity
EdCamp «Smart Summer»

What we do

In the war

On February 24, EdCamp Ukraine started working on five initiatives to support Ukrainians.

These initiatives opened a new direction of work for us - humanitarian.

Initiatives

We have selected different formats so that each of you can join us at a convenient time from a convenient place.

Resilience Tolokas

Hibuki-School

Community Resilience Models

EdCamp Academy for Students, Teachers and Parents

Mine safety

War Fault Lines. Can We Sew Them Together?

Learn to Speak English with Hallo!

Open Resiliency Space

Thematic Expert Materials on Sensitive Topics

Addresses by Famous People to Ukrainians

My War. Lessons for the Humanity

EdCamp «Smart Summer»

Resilience Tolokas

Our Resilience Tolokas are designed to practice resilience, socio-emotional and ethical learning through the professional performances of invited guests, as well as through exercises and games.

05/18/2023 — Resilience Toloka EdCamp Ukraine #2/2023 (2 season)

More Resilience Tolokas

Event guests

We invite one foreign expert to the event who is recognized in a certain field and can support Ukrainian teachers in difficult times of war.

Based on the results of each event, we compile a booklet with the best speaker ideas, an audio podcast of the meeting, a video notebook of the most iconic ideas, and a certificate.

What is the event about?

This event is two hours rich with games, good news, an expert lecture with practices to strengthen mental health and resilience, as well as reflection.

Among the previous guests of Toloka Resilience were:

Rebecca Rolland

Janeane Bernstein

Eileen Naomi Rusk

Elaine Miller-Karas

Tony Nemia

Oleksandr Gershanov

Booklets with the best speaker ideas

View and download event guides.

Materials

Media articles based on the results Resilience Tolokas

Read articles in national media and pedagogical publications.

The results

Records of all previous Resilience Tolokas can be found here, and announcements of the next ones — in our social networks.

Thanks to partners

The initiative is supported by the Federal Government of Germany within the framework of the Civil Peace Service Ukraine – GIZ ZFD program.

Hibuki-School

About the therapeutic method

The course we offer provides training in universal therapeutic methods of dealing with the consequences of any traumatic events by using the therapeutic method “Hibuki-therapy.”

We created a program “Hibuki-School: the use of the Hibuki therapeutic toy in educational institutions in war and post-war times and within the framework of integration with the SEEL program” specifically for Ukrainian teachers.

The course we offer provides training in universal therapeutic methods of dealing with the consequences of any traumatic events by using the therapeutic method “Hibuki-therapy.”

For whom?

The training to work with the Hibuki toy will now be available not only to psychologists, but also to the entire teaching community.

Classes with the Hibuki toy will contribute to:

strengthening inclusive education;
the development of soft skills, in particular, the ability to communicate and work in a team;
learning to empathize with oneself and others, creativity, and critical thinking.

The last two items are fully reflected in the program of socio-emotional and ethical learning, and one of the modules of learning will be devoted to the model of combining the potential of these two tools (SEEL and Hibuki-therapy).

Book

After the training, a special guide will be created on how everyone can use the Hibuki-therapy tool. So a little later, download it and enjoy!

Download

Hibuki-therapy Book

A tool for teachers

What has already happened

400 people completed online training (January-February 2023), attended supervision meetings (February-March 2023) and are already implementing the methodology in their schools.

Thanks to partners

We are thankful to Dafna Sharon, Hibuki Therapy, and Amal. The initiative will be supported by Save the Children in Ukraine and Education Cannot Wait #ECW.

Community Resilience Models

This is a training with Community Resiliency Model for Ukrainian educators, which was developed by representatives of the Trauma Resource Institute (USA).

It is designed to achieve resilience after experiencing traumatic events, to build trauma-informed and resilience-focused communities that can help themselves and others in their wider social network.

Trauma Resource Institute

For what?

Designed to achieve durability after
experiencing traumatic events

The results

Specialists from the US Trauma Resource Institute conducted a series of certified flagship online workshops for 2 groups of listeners. In total, we engaged 35 people from 10 regions of the country in the training.

Theoretical foundations of CRM

Notes with theoretical foundations about Community Resilience Models can be found in the first meetings of the EdCamp Ukraine team with experts from the Trauma Resource Institute within the framework of Open Resiliency Space.

Thanks to partners

The initiative is supported by Save the Children in Ukraine and Education Cannot Wait #ECW.

EdCamp Academy for Students, Teachers and Parents

A system of regular activities to support adults and children.

These are daily morning and evening online meetings for teachers that bring back inner resources, consultative and supportive online meetings for those who work with children with disabilities (twice a week), developmental and entertaining online activities for children and youth of all ages, a telegram channel for parents with support, advice and useful content for children.

We talk about all this in detail in the telegram channel.

Join our channel

Choose activities for yourself

“Resources and Support” (psychological help during martial law) and “Inclusion is not an Illusion” (support for teachers and parents of Ukraine to help children with special educational needs).

YouTube

Small EdCamp Academy

These are developmental and entertaining thematic meetings: “Ukrainian for Everyone”, “Ukrainian for Beginners”, “PiznavayKa”, “Art”, “Lessons of a Citizen”, “Chemistry of Things: Researching Evidence”, “Science”, “Code Time”, “Speaking English for Everyone”, morning and lunch physical exercises.

Classes are held daily from 9:30 to 19:30.

YouTube

A special telegram channel “Resilient Adults for the Sake of Children”

There will be practical pieces of advice and tools that will help not to “lose” children during the war, to establish communication, to distract them from disturbing events.

Advanced training programs on the EdWay platform

EdCamp-Academy is a subject of professional development that will offer the most relevant programs on education during crises to both teachers and parents.

Learn about the formation of resilience skills in educational communities, the organization of the teacher’s work to reduce the emotional stress of schoolchildren in wartime conditions, tools for the development of critical thinking and creativity, etc.

Choose a program

Thanks to partners

The initiative is carried out with the support of the German federal government within the framework of the Civil Peace Service Ukraine – GIZ ZFD. We thank Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Ukraine, Kyiv-Ukraine Bureau for supporting the project.

Mine safety

The professional development program “Watch, recognize, behave safely” is created in the form of a two-section methodological webinar on the behavior of adults in explosive ordnance contaminated areas and ways to talk about such risks with children and adolescents.

Professional development took place in accordance with International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) 12.10, adapted to the Ukrainian context in 2022.

Representatives of The HALO Trust became partners in the development.

The results

We implemented two waves of the training in April-May and September, engaging a total of 773 people.

Thanks to partners

We thank Save the Children in Ukraine and Education Cannot Wait #ECW for their support in the implementation.

War Fault Lines. Can We Sew Them Together?

Given the multifaceted nature of the problems caused by the war, social and political polarization in society is intensifying between the groups of people with different experiences; moreover, the threshold for acceptance of otherness and other experiences is decreasing, which complicates everyday and social interaction and, in particular, the educational process for children and youth.

The initiative will make it possible to convey to our society and the international community what challenges the Ukrainian people are overcoming while living in war conditions, how difficult decisions are made, and how important it is now to learn to look at the situation from two opposite positions in order to understand each other and connect together.

This initiative is a multifaceted multi-construction and offers:

text stories written with the Jack Grapes Method Writing that reveal counterpositions;
images for themes and stories made by well-known illustrators;
audio versions of texts in the podcast format;
video announcements.

Learn about the start of the project

You can learn about the start of the project from our social networks or the official website.

Thanks to partners

The initiative is supported by the Federal Government of Germany within the framework of the Civil Peace Service Ukraine – GIZ ZFD program.

Learn to Speak English with Hallo!

EdCamp Ukraine together with the “Hallo” project created two pilot groups for learning English.

Educators, as well as students 13+ years old, were offered to study English free.

The initiative participants will receive:

a safe space for learning and communication, protected by a professional team of training moderators;
more than 1,000,000 like-minded people from different countries of the world who want to learn English and communicate in English;
an interactive tool for learning a language with other people around the world;
online classes with an English teacher 24/7;
individual lessons with your favorite teacher;
group conversations with other learners at any time to speak freely and increase your confidence.

Open Resiliency Space

Open online meetings for everyone with experts from the Trauma Resource Institute and Emory University.

We practice SEE Learning live, provide practical advice on various topics of concern to Ukrainians, analyze individual cases, and provide advice.

Щоденний простір стійкості

Advisor

After the trainings, we prepared the thematic advisor “Adults in the resource. How to help yourself and children.” It contains effective advice from experts on how to cope with emotions, stress, improve your condition and return to joy and well-being in difficult conditions and consists of chapters, each of which is aimed at helping to solve some important issue for a person or developing resilience skills , which is extremely necessary in times of war and post-war reconstruction.

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Thanks to partners

The initiative is carried out with the support of the Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

Thematic Expert Materials on Sensitive Topics

How to practice infomation hygiene and not to panic, how to get adapted yourself and adapt your child to a new place, how to understand without creating confrontation — if you left your native place to flee from war and are in Ukraine, if you host IDPs in Ukraine, if you fled abroad, with children and adults with disabilities, if you volunteer, if use the help of volunteers, if you help volunteers, if you don’t want to leave your place / if you are thinking whether to leave or stay while others insist, and others issues.

The types of content we publish

Short videos

Infographics

Cartoons with tips, explanations, useful lists

Materials are published in our social networks:

Facebook

Instagram

Thanks to partners

The initiative is carried out with the support of the Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

Addresses by Famous People to Ukrainians

Supporting video or text addresses, “messages of hope” from famous people for Ukrainians.

We have “messages of hope” from

Richard Branson
Edith Eva Eger
Slava Frolova
Esther Wojcicki
Andreas Schleicher
Taras Topolya
Anthony Blair

All videos can be viewed on our YouTube channel

YouTube

Thanks to partners

The initiative is carried out with the support of the Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

My War. Lessons for the Humanity

EdCamp Ukraine has started an initiative that will help to highlight the status quo in Ukrainian education and build an image of school at wartime — a series of 27 interviews with educators who are located or have moved from different regions of Ukraine, about their work during the war, the functioning of educational institutions and personal feelings and senses during the wartime.

The book is based on the results of the initiative

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Full interviews

Full interviews can be found on our website and on Nakypilo Media Group website.

Read the interview on the page Read the interview on the partners' website

Сrowdfunding campaign

As part of the project, an international crowdfunding campaign will be launched to collect funds to help teachers. The funds will be spent on the purchase of laptops and packages for Internet access, as well as on psychological help for teachers.

Campaign page

Results of material support

We supported 58 teachers with technological kits.

Having bought a set for remote work – a laptop, a computer mouse, a router, headphones – for those teachers who want to teach children, but because of the war they lost this opportunity, because now they do not have the necessary equipment.

Results of psychological support

We provided personal psychological consultations to 55 teachers. Based on the results of the work of specialists, a support book was developed for all who need support in difficult times of war.

Thanks to partners

Crowdfunding campaign “My war. Lessons” and the purchase of technological kits was implemented with the financial support of the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation – a Project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the international non-governmental organization Save the Children and Education Cannot Wait# ECW.

Psychological support was provided in partnership with ChildFund Deutschland, with the financial support of Aktionsbündnis Katastrophenhilfe.

Interview series «My War. Lessons for Humanity» was produced with the financial support of Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation – a Project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

EdCamp «Smart Summer»

For the first time in our history, we have launched an online summer camp for students — “Smart Summer”.

For whom?

We have developed unique programs for all age groups, from the 1st to 11th grade, and created 8 unique thematic groups.

EdCamp Ukraine camp is:

a safe online space for kids’ and adolescents’ communication and development supported by talented teachers who love teaching and students, and love what they do for students;
self-care and care for others when performing project activities that are focused on social, emotional and ethical learning;
and also on English, logic and coding; and also with dance workouts, lots of laughter and little joys for children;
4 camp shifts between July and August 2022;
4 age categories of participants and 8 groups in each shift;
group size — up to 15 people;
each camp duration is 2 weeks (3 days of two-hour pleasant and exciting communication each week).