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Strengths assessment: facilitate activities that help each person identify and leverage

their strengths. Personality assessments or strengths surveys can be used.
Feedback and self-assessment: provide young people with constructive feedback by
encouraging peers, mentors or other people they trust to offer feedback on

strengths, areas for growth and interpersonal skills, fostering self-awareness and
growth mindset.

3.8 - Collaboration and Teamwork
Cultivate the ability to work effectively in diverse teams. Promote the creation of inclusive

environments where teamwork is based on mutual respect and understanding.

3.9 - Intercultural Aspects

The aim is for young people to develop an understanding of cultural diversity to enable
them to respond appropriately in different intercultural situations and to understand
their counterparts correctly.

Theory:

Increased globalization trends are leading to more and more intercultural overlap
situations. People from culturally different contexts come into contact with each other,
whether professionally or privately. In addition to understanding, these encounters

automatically give rise to conflicts or misunderstandings because cultural world views and
values are interpreted differently. Intercultural competence is required in order to behave
appropriately in these situations and to shape them positively.

How it relates to youth work:

Due to the wave of globalization, today's youth workers are increasingly confronted with
the most diverse cultures and religions, which must be understood as well as their
differences accepted and classified.

The development of intercultural skills therefore enables youth workers to deal
respectfully with other cultures, to accept their views and values without judgment and to
respond accordingly without neglecting their own cultural background.

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