The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Training consists of three parts:

1. The actual Peer Coach Academy: A 12-day block phase with overnight stay, in the rooms of the Landesmusikakademie NRW in Heek-Nienborg;
2. A supervised practice phase with at least 60 self-directed hours;
3. a final reflection weekend.

Whoever has successfully gone through these three parts, receives the ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach certificate recognized by all members of the international ROOTS & ROUTES network. In 2021, for the first time, there was also the possibility to additionally obtain the juleica (youth leader card recognized throughout Germany) – for this, an additional external first aid course must be attended.

20 young artists from Cologne and the surrounding area took part in the ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy 2021, including 10 from the youth curatorship in the iJuLa project. In addition to the RRCGN team, the team of coaches included Winston Errol Scholsberg (Public Speaking Architect, The Hague/NL), Daniela Rodriguez-Romero (Dance/Cologne), Erik Schmittmann and Heidi Platz (Visual Arts/Düsseldorf), Markus Brachtendorf and Johannes da-Costa (Music/Cologne), and Marcel Panne as well as Heiko Walter (Media/Cologne).

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