25. Samia K. Khatib (Lebanon) - How to become a master facilitator in Sport for Development?

Inspira | Erika Mueller Chen

Erika speaks to Samia about her experiences as a GIZ master facilitator building capacity of local leaders through sport on the topics of health, employability, and gender in the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Central Asia.

Samia K. Khatib was a Peace and Sport Young Ambassador, holds a MSc in sport and exercise psychology from Loughborough University, and has used her background in psychology and her passion for sport to work in Sport for Development and Peace. She has occupied multiple positions in the SDP practitioner field as a coach, instructor, master trainer, project conceptualiser, and capacity developer. Her roles have leveraged her language skills in English, French and Arabic, and she has worked with the GIZ and other organizations in Lebanon, Indonesia, Philippines, Morocco, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Egypt.

Samia’s LinkedIn

Erika’s LinkTree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/erikamchen⁠

Resources:

1. ⁠International Platform on Sport and Development aka Sportanddev
2. GIZ Resources & GIZ Learning Lab
3. ⁠Peace and Sport
4. German Sport University Cologne MA in International Sport Development and Politics
5. University of Western Cape Postgraduate Diploma in SDP

Episode Info:

• Episode recording date: October 18, 2022 & March 29, 2023.
• See Erika’s LinkTree for episode transcript.
• “The Podcast Intro” by “Music_Unlimited” was retrieved from Pixabay. ⁠Licensor's Username⁠ and Licensee Username - erika_mueller.

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