Matthias Schrenk                                                                 

 

Matthias runs a youth centre in Germany, rents out canoes and works as an overseas project coordinator for Springboard in Northern Ireland.  He likes to travel and meet people from other countries and cultures and also works as a Trainer in various international training programmes since 2009.  He is also ski-jumper, ‘canoe-hiker’ and a ‘possibility-maker’.  He also has a very interesting hobby which is to send a little German garden gnome, ‘Mr. Derry’ around the world.  As well as listening to spiritual music Matthias enjoys philosophical conversations about life!

 

 

Morgaine Green

 

Morgaine dedicates her working life (and part of her personal one too!) to personal and social change and growth through artistic “languages" and creativity. With a masters degree in Culture of Peace, Conflict, Education and Human Rights, and ample complementary studies and training in project design with gender perspective, art therapy, social intercultural mediation through art, positive transformation of conflicts through art and play, social and educational intervention in penitentiary centres, management of non profit organisations and volunteering. A large part of her professional career has been focused on social intervention and mediation with young people with diverse abilities and at risk of social exclusion.”

 

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Fergal Barr

 

Father of three and grandfather of two, Fergal has been involved in international work since 1998 and has worked full-time in Youth Work for more than 30 years across a diverse range of areas including Youth Information, Volunteering, Peace and Reconciliation, Mentoring, Street Work, Participation, Rural Youth Work, Social Justice and Community Development.  Fergal has also published three books, undertaken a solo-fundraising walk (almost) the length of Ireland in 1988 and a second walk for the Irish Cancer Society in 2017 (from top to bottom of Ireland on that occasion), made legal history in Northern Ireland in 2001 by single-handedly changing Employment Law (barristers are way too expensive) at an Industrial Tribunal.  He is also a life-long (and sometimes suffering) Liverpool supporter.