{"id":38933,"date":"2020-11-10T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T16:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/?p=38933"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:25:56","slug":"humanium-delivers-second-child-rights-coaching-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/humanium-delivers-second-child-rights-coaching-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanium Delivers Second Child Rights Coaching Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On 25 September 2020, Humanium delivered the second in its series of child rights coaching e-workshops to a group of child rights professionals. The interactive 90-minute-long session saw the union of rights professionals from across the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur Child Rights Coaching was born as an idea to give a taste of the tools Humanium uses in its workshops, so that they may be shared in participants\u2019 own operational contexts and used to further empower beneficiaries.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Arndt Soret, Humanium\u2019s Co-Founder and CEO (pictured above on the left)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Following the delivery of Humanium\u2019s first \u2018Child Rights Workshop<\/a>\u2019 in April<\/a> 2020, the second was launched as a continuation of this initiative which was formulated as a free-of-charge online training to connect worldwide rights professionals in response to the COVID-19<\/a> pandemic. During the workshop, attendees partook in a series of participatory discussions and activities centred around child rights. (I)NGO professionals joined our unique hands-on e-training from countries across Europe<\/a> and Africa<\/a>, while activities addressed both the international child rights framework itself and practical tools for coaching child rights through in-country projects.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Coach Facilitators who guided participants through skill development included Arndt Soret and Karen Makkes van der Deijl. Arndt, Humanium\u2019s CEO and co-founder is a lawyer and a therapist (Psychopraticien and Somatic Experiencing), and Karen is a professional life coach with 15 years of experience, who has been contributing to Humanium since 2015. Together, Arndt and Karen have delivered 82 workshops to 2,586 people in Rwanda<\/a> (and in India<\/a>). As part of the introduction, Josie Thum, Advocacy Officer<\/a> at Humanium, gave participants a short presentation on the international child rights framework and the mechanisms it entails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince Humanium\u2019s 2008 establishment, we have been promoting awareness of child rights through accessible online information to 6 million annual users alongside rights training fieldwork in Rwanda and in India.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>Arndt Soret, Humanium\u2019s Co-Founder and CEO<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The training opened with introductions as professionals shared their own motivations for working towards the improvement of child rights as well as the principal challenges faced by their respective NGOs in this arena. A presentation on the international child rights<\/a> framework highlighted key rights instruments as well as major gaps, and highlighted Humanium\u2019s accessible distillation of the framework into 8 fundamental rights<\/a>. It was also underlined, when discussing terminology such as \u2018vulnerable children\u2019 that nobody is \u2018vulnerable\u2019 inherently, but people are instead affected by external vulnerability factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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