WORKSHOPS & TRAININGS
Sustainable travel is a complex subject.
It is increasingly important not only to have the right buzzwords on your website, but also to involve customers, employees and travellers in its implementation. We offer workshops and training materials
EDUCATIONAL OFFERS
We use various online formats to educate around sustainable travel and responsible volunteering.
No matter if it’s for companies and employees, educational projects or seminars for young travelers who want to volunteer abroad.
For individual requests, please contact us.
TOPICS
Sustainable & Conscious Travel
Travel Preparation & Coming Back
Intercultural Communication
Volunteering Courses
Ethical Storytelling
Global Learning
FOR YOU
Volunteering
Would you like to provide well-designed training or preparatory seminars for young volunteers, but lack the resources or skills?
Travel Industry
You are aware of your responsibility as a travel service provider and want to prepare your customers for their trip in the best possible way.
Start-ups and Companies
You want to raise awareness of sustainable travel among your employees. After all, it’s not just your customers who expect you to take personal responsibility for sustainability.
The give & grow workshop packed a lot of expertise and interaction into 90 minutes. It was a lot of fun and I now have a better overview of all the levels of sustainable travel and how to make my next trip more sustainable. Going through the whole process in a diverse group was very helpful.
The workshop on intercultural communication gave us important food for thought to reflect on and question our work with many projects in different countries and from different cultural backgrounds. This knowledge base is an essential first step in breaking down communication barriers and achieving respectful and equal cooperation across national borders. Kathrin was very responsive to our individual questions and needs and made the workshop very enriching for everyone.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Tourism-Lab: Educational methods for sustainable travel
Sustainable travel is becoming an increasingly important topic – also in the field of education. To strengthen local organisations in Germany and Spain and to develop effective materials to bring these issues closer to young people, give & grow is working with BluoVerda and Sende.
The project will develop a five-week training programme, two workshops on sustainable tourism with young people, an online community and a methodological T-Lab toolkit for educational work in the field of sustainable tourism.
More about the project soon.
Sustainable Travel in Education
The social dimension of sustainability and people’s own attitudes and mindsets when travelling are rarely addressed. We are changing that with two educational videos and a workbook to accompany our concept: Mental Backpack.
Workshops in schools – Cologne
Funded and supported by the municipality of Cologne we organize workshops in schools on the topic: “Responsible and sustainable travel after school”.
The program SmartCity Cologne has the aim to sensitize and inspire young people to make responsible decisions for themselves and others while traveling. We also offer our digital-learning-platform to create a fun experience.
Responsible Volunteering in Nepal
Funded by the Synergy Program of ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), give & grow worked together with Umbrealla Organization Nepal.
The goal was to use both perspectives of Nepal and Germany to tackle the problems of volunteering with children in Nepal and share learning around this topic. One part of the project was to conduct workshops in Nepal with “Childcare Homes” an the topics of mindset, responsible Volunteering and child protection. The PDF learning document is the result of a collaboration sharing the most important tips on the topic.
Everything you need to know on Volunteering in Nepal
Download the docoment on sustainable travel and responsible volunteering for free.
PARTNERS
live&learn is a socially oriented, family-run company that specialises in educational trips to South Africa. It offers tailor-made programmes in the form of volunteering, internships and sabbaticals. The number of participants is limited to 100 people per year. live&learn carefully checks the qualifications, motivation and interests of the applicants and supports them before departure and on site. live&learn has a long-standing partnership with the host organisations.
Participants experience socio-political challenges in a country of the Global South, actively contribute to positive social and ecological change and learn about global contexts and socio-political issues in their home countries from a new perspective.
live & learn integrates the online courses and learning programmes of give & grow into its own concept.
Rainbow Garden Village (RGV) offers responsible Volunteering and therefore aims to prepare future volunteers in the best way possible for their upcoming journey.
give & grow supports with the concept and implementation of the preparation seminar and offers important impulses around sustainable volunteering.
Kathrin David
Founder and CEO
of give & grow
ABOUT US
give & grow is an educational online platform revolving around sustainable travel and intercultural communication. We advocate for the change of the volunteering, tourism and travel industry. For greater global understanding and dialogue. Our work is non-profit and every income we generate is used in our educational projects.
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