The training course gathered 34 participants from 11 countries. It was held in Zagreb in November 2019. The goals of the project included raising the abilities of youth workers and their organisations to support struggling LGBTI youth who cannot make peace between their faith and their sexuality/gender identity, or who are struggling to obtain acceptance from their religious family and friends.
Trening je okupio 34 sudionika iz 11 zemalja. Održan je u Zagrebu u studenom 2019. Među ciljevima projekta bilo je jačanje sposobnosti osoba koje rade s mladima i njihovih organizacija da podrže LGBTI mlade koji prolaze kroz teškoće jer ne mogu pomiriti svoju vjeru sa svojom seksualnošću ili rodnim identitetom, ili se bore da ih prihvate njihova religiozna obitelj i prijatelji.
LGBTI people of faith are often a taboo within religious and LGBTI communities. As a result, struggling LGBTI youth of faith often feel they have noone to turn to. They fear their religious community will reject them for being LGBTI, while at the same time fearing LGBTI community will look down upon them for being religious. As a result, not many church leaders know a lot about LGBTI issues, while at the same time not many LGBTI youth workers, leaders or activists know much about religion.
LGBTI vjernici često su tabu i u vjerskim i u LGBTI zajednicama. Zbog toga LGBTI mladi koji su vjernici i prolaze kroz teškoće često osjećaju da se nemaju kome obratiti. Boje se da će ih njihova vjerska zajednica odbaciti zato što su LGBTI, a istodobno se boje da će ih LGBTI zajednica gledati s visoka zato što su religiozni. Posljedica je da malo crkvenih vođa zna mnogo o LGBTI temama, a istodobno malo osoba koje rade s LGBTI mladima, voditelja ili aktivista zna mnogo o religiji.
Therefore, there is a need for skilled youth workers who can bridge the gaps between religion and LGBTI issues. On this project, they learned how to do that by:
Zato su potrebne vješte osobe koje rade s mladima i koje mogu premostiti jaz između religije i LGBTI tema. Na ovom su projektu naučili kako to učiniti tako što su:
- learning about the quotes from the holy books related to LGBTI issues
- učili o citatima iz svetih knjiga koji se odnose na LGBTI teme
- learning about the problems in interpreting these text
- učili o problemima u tumačenju tih tekstova
- exchanging experience on how to provide spiritual, emotional and psychological support to LGBTI youth of faith who struggle to make peace between their religion and their sexuality/gender identity
- razmjenjivali iskustva o tome kako pružiti duhovnu, emocionalnu i psihološku podršku LGBTI mladima koji su vjernici i teško mire svoju religiju sa svojom seksualnošću ili rodnim identitetom
- exchanging experience in supporting LGBTI youth of faith resolve their problems with their religious family and parents
- razmjenjivali iskustva u pružanju podrške LGBTI mladima koji su vjernici da riješe probleme sa svojom religioznom obitelji i roditeljima
- exchanging experience of creating a dialogue between religious and LGBTI communities.
- razmjenjivali iskustva u stvaranju dijaloga između vjerskih i LGBTI zajednica.