Breakout Bandits richt zich op<br />
jongeren en jongvolwassenen van<br />
18 tot 35 jaar

Our coaching

We distinguish 3 types of coaching:

1. Substantive coaching: young people learn new skills

2. Personal coaching: young people gain more confidence and self-insight.

3. Looking after each other: young people are less lonely and mentally healthier.

Substantive coaching: new skills

We provide substantive coaching to young people to develop new skills. We distinguish 2 sub-target groups with different substantive coaching.

Program 1: Bandits creation

We will conduct a structured teambuilding game development process, together with the Young Creatives, under the guidance of a Game developer, Scummaster and Youth worker. We will adapt the process in such a way that it offers a lot of space for the Young Creatives to learn new skills.

Program 2: Bandits Support

We offer various jobs with customized guidance from a professional in sales, marketing, support, IT or office management. We select our employees based on professional competence and social skills. They guide 1 or 2 Young Creatives in a relaxed, personal way and introduce them to the field. The Young Creatives carry out assignments according to their ability and learn new skills as a result.

Personal coaching: more confidence and self-insight

We offer personal coaching based on the vision of relational youth work, with the aim of giving young people more self-confidence and insight.

We build a relationship with young people by doing things together (making new games and playing our own team building game), drinking coffee, having lunch together, going for a walk and, above all, offering a listening ear. We name the qualities that we see during this process and encourage young people to grow further in this. This way, they get to know their qualities and gain more self-confidence.

In our relational youth work, we maintain a professional distance, but at the same time we also share a lot of our own lives. We make ourselves vulnerable and show that our pain has become our strength. In this way, we create an open and safe atmosphere: young people feel free to discuss their challenges. We do not offer specialist care. This can of course be provided in parallel with a trajectory at Breakout Bandits

An important part of personal guidance is to think together with the young person about the next step in their life. Possible options are:

Entering another program at Breakout Bandits
Moving on to a job at Breakout Bandits
Moving on to a job at another company
Following a training course
Starting their own business
As long as it is the next step in their life

Young people look after each other: less loneliness and mentally healthier

Based on our experiences with youth projects, we know that a strong community is created when young people work together on a project and support each other in this. The connection with each other reduces loneliness. We encourage young people to look after each other and to support each other with mental problems. Young people do not solve each other’s problems, but they can encourage each other to seek professional help. That works much more strongly than a parent, youth worker, teacher or anyone else who encourages them to do so.

We use our own team building games to kickstart community building. We have lunch together and take the time to walk together. Together with working in a homely atmosphere, working together on a project and personal guidance, this will stimulate a group feeling that has a positive effect on the mental health of the young people.

At Breakout Bandits I discovered that I am not the only one who is stuck in this busy world. It is a safe place where everyone can discover and develop their skills. Everyone can be of significance.

Corianne

found a place at Breakout Bandits as a creative dropout

Experience

We have extensive experience in coaching young people.