🔥Level 0 – Mission: Team spirit🤝
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🧑🏫 Getting started as a trainer (place this at the very top!)
Your role:
You are a coach, not a teacher. This means that you should spend no more than 15 minutes on the explanation. After that, your role as a trainer is to hand over the task or exercise of the day. You only need to step in if the children or young people get stuck.
- You explain briefly
- You give examples
- You help with decisions
👉 But: You let the children experience and decide for themselves
🧠 Basic rule:
If children don’t understand:
❌ Don’t say: “Just do it”
✅ Instead: give them options
🗣️ Your key phrases:
- “I’ll give you some examples…”
- “You can choose…”
- “Which one suits you better?”
- “Try it out together…”
⚠️ RULES FOR THE COACH
- Don’t put any child down
- Always speak simply
- Show rather than explain
- Use movement
📅 DAY 1 – We’re becoming a team
🎯 Objective (each team has a maximum of 15 minutes per task):
For the children to understand: We belong together
🧩 Task 1: Form a team
👉 The coach says:
“You’re now a team.
A team is like a small group that sticks together.”
🧩 Task 2: Team name
👉 Trainer says:
“Give your team a name.”
If they don’t respond: 👉 Give options:
“Are you strong like lions?”
“Or fast like lightning?”
“Or clever like eagles?”
🧩 Task 3: Draw a symbol
👉 Trainer says:
“Draw a symbol for your team.”
If they’re unsure: 👉 Examples:
Animal
Sun
Heart
Fist
🧩 Task 4: Team rule
👉 Trainer says: “A team needs a rule.”
Then straight away: “Choose one:”
- We help each other
- We don’t make fun of anyone
- We don’t give up
- We listen
👉 If necessary: “Which one suits you?”
📅 DAY 2 – First mission: ‘Save your spot’
🎯 Objective:
To work together
🧩 Explanation:
👉 The trainer says:
‘Today you have a mission:
You’re going to clean up an area.’
🧩 Task:
- Choose an area
- Time: 25–20 minutes
🗣️ Coaching if unsure:
- “Who’s doing what?”
- “Who’s helping whom?”
- “How can you work faster?”
🎯 Wrap-up: 👉 Trainer asks:
- “What went well?”
- “Who helped out?”
📅 DAY 3 – Roles in the team
🎯 Objective: Understanding responsibility
🧩 Explanation: 👉 The trainer says:
“Today, everyone has a role.”
🧩 Explaining the roles:
- Leader → tells everyone what to do
- Helper → supports others
- Motivator → says “Let’s keep going!”
- Observer → watches who is helping
🗣️ Coaching:
- Leader: “What’s the plan?”
- Helper: “Who needs help?”
- “Motivator: Say something positive!”
- Observer: “Note down how it worked”
Conclusion:
Trainer: How do you feel? What have you learnt for yourselves?
📅 DAY 4 – New Team
🎯 Objective:
Working with new people (The teams are reorganised. And the roles are changed)
🧩 Explanation: 👉 Trainer says:
“Today you’re in new teams.”
🗣️ Coaching:
- “Do you know each other yet?” (Introduce yourselves to one another, maximum 5 minutes)
- “Who is taking on which role today?” (Who leads, who helps, who motivates and who takes notes (maximum 5–10 minutes)
- “How can you work together quickly?” (Coordination of tasks. Who is best at what. The trainer only gives an example if the young people are stuck).
Conclusion of the exercise.
What insights have you gained today?
(The young people describe their impressions and what they have realised for themselves)
📅 DAY 5 – A bigger challenge
🎯 Objective:
Resilience & teamwork
🧩 Task:
larger area
less time
🗣️ Coaching:
- “How are you going to divide the work?”
- “Who’s taking responsibility?”
- “Are you giving up – or carrying on?”
👉 Optional:
Combine with a game or sport
📅 DAY 6 – My Journey
🎯 Goal:
Self-awareness
🧩 Explanation:
👉 The trainer says:
“Today is all about you.”
🧩 Task:
Children can:
- draw
- tell stories
- write
🗣️ Questions:
- “Where do you come from?”
- “What are you good at?”
- “What would you like to learn?”
👉 Important: No pressure!
📅 DAY 7 – Conclusion
🎯 Objective:
Reflection & Recognition
🧩 Group discussion
👉 Trainer asks:
- “Who did you enjoy working with?”
- “Who helped you?”
- “Who was a good leader?”
🏆 Conclusion:
👉 Trainer says:
“You worked as a team.
You can be proud of that.”
🔗 Transition
👉 Trainer says:
“Now let’s move on to the next step, No. 1:
Understanding myself”