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Once you have completed exercise 1, you can move on to exercise 2.
Examine Jules's dreams next:
Examine the below list of character traits, too. Select traits that you think Jules will need to achieve her/his dreams and to overcome her/his challenges. Select at least two traits that you think will support Jules’s journey.
Once you have discussed dreams and selected Jules’s traits, s/he is ready to start her/his journey and exercise 3.
Next Jules has to face some challenges in her/his everyday life. Your task is to help Jules overcome the challenges as well as possible.
Jules’s dream about her/his own dance studio is strong. Starting a business in a foreign country feels challenging. Finding a space that is not too expensive is particularly problematic. S/he has found some suitable options and the planning can start.
1. Familiarise yourselves as a team with the following value of the Youth Strategy:
#9 Space and participation for all
2. Help Jules to solve the space issue. Your exercise is to plan a dance studio for Jules using the below information.
Examples of things Jules might need for her/his studio:
Once you have tackled exercise 3, you can move on to exercise 4.
There are still things to do before achieving the dream.
Jules’s dance studio has operated for a while in the space you planned. Jules enjoys her/his work as the dance teacher. However, s/he needs to get extra work to make a living.
Jules decides to apply for 3 jobs. Because of her/his background, Jules faces prejudices and discrimination in applying for jobs. These are not necessarily spoken out. Jules notices them from the way people react to her/him and even from whether s/he gets a job or not, or what kind of salary s/he is offered.
1. Familiarise yourselves as a team with the following value of the Youth Strategy:
#2 Equality of all genders
2. Jules applies for the following jobs:
During your discussion, make a list of issues that you think Jules might come across in her/his application process. How should s/he take them? How to turn prejudices to positive things? How to tackle discrimination? What kind of salary could Jules get from these jobs?
After completing exercise 4, you can move on to exercise 5 or the wild card exercise.
Jules has now overcome her/his challenges and is heading to the future and her/his dreams. Your journey with Jules is nearing its end.
The value #11 Youth organisations and European programmes of the EU Youth Strategy focuses on the significance of European youth organisations and programmes in building the European society and providing opportunities for the future of young people. European programmes include programmes such as the Erasmus+: Youth and the European Solidarity Corps.
Jules has been doing great and her/his journey towards her/his dreams has become clearer! You are almost done! Is there still something else you could offer Jules to help her/him get closer to her/his dreams or to make them more achievable?
The value #11 Youth organisations and European programmes of the EU Youth Strategy focuses on the significance of European youth organisations and programmes in building the European society and providing opportunities for the future of young people. European programmes include programmes such as the Erasmus+: Youth and the European Solidarity Corps.
The wild card exercise allows you 5 minutes to plan a project that would offer Jules opportunities on her/his path towards her/his dreams.
After the exercise, teams come together to present their projects. All teams will comment on each other’s projects.
It is soon time to say goodbye to Jules. Thank you for the shared journey with Jules and the team!
Now gather together with the other teams.
At the end of the game, the facilitator will pose you some questions.