Nationally recognized provider of free youth welfare

Heroes play a big role in Larp. Each of us wants to play a cool role, experience exciting or intense gameplay, be there for others, compete with or inspire others in the game. It doesn't matter whether you are a radiant warrior in armor, a magician shrouded in mystery or a caring but strict healer. Larp offers you the opportunity to play your own personal hero role.

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In addition, we at ECW have understood that the potential of Larp goes far beyond the fun of role-playing. "Being a hero" means more to us than playing a good role. There is a hero in each and every one of us, a powerful and self-confident personality that is rarely allowed to blossom in everyday life. Life and society imposes fears and constraints on us that often make us feel small and weak. In order to be able to act confidently and to become a designer in your own life, you need your inner heroic form, which grabs life by the forelock. We would like to help you to strengthen this inner voice and carry it outside.

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Larp as a method of personal development means that we set you specific challenges and put you in borderline situations that appeal to your inner heroism. Hero coaching  means that we accompany you in the game and outside of these situations. Our experienced youth workers watch each and every player very closely. We regularly discuss what is happening in the game in internal rounds of reflection at the event and intervene if necessary. On this path, your friends also play an important role by supporting, challenging or criticizing each other.

 

Our educational approach relies on everyone being active in teaching and learning, including us as supervisors. Larp has huge potential here: We are not tied to specific patterns in our roles, but can break down stereotypes and established behavior in a targeted manner. Again and again we consciously step out of the game world into the real world and reflect on what we have experienced, in group evaluation rounds or in individual discussions. This is how we ensure that each of our participants is in good hands in this new, exciting, and sometimes overwhelming situation.

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What does that mean specifically? 

• It happens again and again that participants who are taking part in "Fields of Honor" for the first time do not dare speaking in front of a large group of people. But at the end of the nine-day camp, they were able tofree speech in front of more than 100 people to keep!

• Many of our participants feel in everyday life as outsider inside. Where they were still on the fringes of the action at the beginning of the event, they may be at the end leaders for groups of over 50 players!

• being a victim of mobbing is bad. You feel left out and helpless. Through adventure coaching, participants have already managed to strengthen self worth to develop that they could see bullying and the perpetrators for what it actually is: an expression of weakness and insecurity. Your inner hero makes you strong, so bullying bounces off you like armor.

• Many young people feel one diffuse fear of the future. How should I continue after school or training? How do I find my place in the world? Hero coaching helps to identify and concretize fears. The physical outdoor experience comes to the fore and suppresses worries and fears for the moment. From this position of rest, you can View and tackle problems multidimensionally. The future is not a strange place you are sent to, it is the path you create yourself!

• Anyone who has ever defeated a superior opponent in a fight through skill and practice or has taken responsibility for others in thunderstorms and storms will not be thrown off course so easily. The Added value for self-esteem, self-confidence and self-perception, who arrange our events, will carry you further even if Eivor the warrior has long since become Lea from 9a again.

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Do you want to know what REALLY is in you - and take that with you into your everyday life?

Then be there!