EIGEN-SINN workshop for children and young people

The EiGEN-SiNN workshop for children and young people in Freudenstadt has set itself the task of offering children from disadvantaged families a framework in which they can find support and perspectives.

In 1999, the founder Hans-Martin Haist created a place where children and young people are cared for by educational professionals, where social rules are learned and trained, where meaningful leisure activities take place, where problems are addressed and solutions are sought and where children and young people be strengthened. Unlike often in their families of origin and at school, they should experience a safe environment in which they are not branded as losers, victims or perpetrators. They should have appreciative and demanding adults as counterparts who give them support and security and support them in coping with their life’s tasks.

“Children who come to us are no longer blank slates. Life has already left painful marks. Helping children in difficult circumstances is both our goal and our task. We want strong children for a better future. Children who do not fail later in life because they had to suffer from a lack in certain areas of life.

 

Excerpt from report September 2020: “During the Corona period, many new projects were started to accompany the children through the difficult time. One of them was the worry wall, consisting of cardboard boxes, in which – symbolically – the children can pack their worries and thus express them. Many children/adolescents are still very afraid of the virus, which they cannot grasp. Another project is the compass of joie de vivre. It was developed by the EIGEN-SINN children’s workshop so that the children can maintain and hold on to a positive view despite the difficult times, worries and fears.”

The boys ‘ group has been supported by the Schöck-Familien-Stiftung since May 2020:

Most of the children and young people in the children’s workshop are boys, many from separated and divorced families, many are brought up by one parent alone, many are fatherless. They often become conspicuous at school through aggressive behavior or through total passivity and do not reach their real potential.

In the boys’ group, a sense of community is conveyed on the one hand and a program with clear boundaries on the other. The boys develop valuable social skills. Violence prevention is actively pursued with a qualified brawl game offer, many of these activities take place media-free in nature. Advisory work with parents is the basis of the group work.

The two butterfly groups , which the Schöck-Familien-Stiftung has been supporting since September 2018, are aimed at children and young people with seriously ill parents. Here they are given the opportunity to build positive relationships outside the home, to talk about their problems, fears and guilt or to portray them creatively. Here they can experience that they are not alone and are supported and strengthened.

It is important for these children to be given the opportunity to develop positive relationships outside of the home, to be able to talk about problems or to present them creatively.

Content and group offers:

  • Experience and cultural education emphasize above all the aspect of holism, unity: body, mind and soul.
  • Game-pedagogical methods enable the necessary distancing from deadlocked role models or the playful approach to new problems and tasks via role-playing and business games.
  • Pedagogically oriented self-confidence training and conflict-pedagogical methods are aimed at self-assertion and strengthening one’s own ability to deal with conflict.
  • Methods of self-awareness emphasize the importance of self-concept and self-esteem.

The two groups of girls have been supported by the Schöck Family Foundation since 2013:

Here, girls from difficult backgrounds receive a supervised group program from a pedagogically and creatively-therapeutically trained specialist. They get a chance to discover strengths and to learn how to deal with weaknesses, learn how to behave socially and have the prospect of a self-designed life. Together, the girls can open up to talk about problems in a group of “like-minded people” and get involved in a spirit of trust.

content and purpose

  • The girls should continue their positive development
  • They develop a healthy identity in their special life situation
  • You learn to set yourself apart and to protect yourself from dangerous influences or to distance yourself from them
  • They recognize and develop their own talents and interests
  • Through the work in the biographical area, they should find and deepen their roots
  • They recognize and experience their own emotional world
  • You will receive guidance and support with practical life problems
  • They resolve conflicts in an appropriate manner

Project sponsor:      Stiftung EiGEN-SiNN

Funding year:          since 2013

Project No.:              2-13fe

 

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