Media and experiential educator, child protection trainer and anti-discrimination expert
About Omid Mansouri
Omid Mansouri is a media and experiential educator, child protection trainer and anti-discrimination expert. For more than ten years, he has designed and delivered educational programmes for children, young people and professionals working in education.
As part of his educational work, he has led numerous workshops at schools, universities of teacher education and other institutions across Austria. His work combines professional expertise with practical methods, reflection and active participation.
Educational approach
His educational approach is participatory, inclusive and relationship-oriented. It focuses on learning spaces where young people can contribute their perspectives, recognise and communicate boundaries, and develop social and media-related agency.
Omid Mansouri understands education as more than the transfer of knowledge. Learning becomes sustainable where people experience safety, recognition and the ability to act.
Areas of work
These areas are closely connected and respond to practical challenges faced by schools, educational organisations and young people.
- Media education and media literacy
Critical and reflective engagement with social media, digital role models, cyberbullying, online communication and young people's digital environments. - Child protection and prevention
Strengthening safeguarding structures, awareness of boundaries, participation and an educational culture in which children and young people are heard and taken seriously. - Anti-discrimination
Working with prejudice, exclusion, social power relations and discrimination-sensitive approaches to education. - Experiential education
Learning through experience, collaboration and reflection, using methods that make social processes visible and directly tangible. - Social and emotional skills
Communication, conflict competence, empathy, self-awareness and the development of strong relationships in educational settings.
Workshops and educational practice
Omid Mansouri develops and delivers workshops and professional training for children, young people and educators. The formats combine research-informed perspectives with practical exercises and create space for exchange, self-reflection and concrete ways of taking action.
Through the Sensibilisierung Initiative, educational programmes cover topics including media use, child protection, social skills, emotional education, relationship-oriented practice and anti-discrimination.
External references and collaborations
External organisations also reference Omid Mansouri in connection with media education, experiential education, child protection and educational work.
Presented as a media and experiential educator and as a child protection and anti-discrimination trainer. City Bound Wien – Safeguarding concept
Omid Mansouri is named as the person responsible for child safeguarding. LEA – Österreichischer Fonds zur Stärkung und Förderung von Frauen und Mädchen
Workshop led by Omid Mansouri / Sensibilisierung Initiative.
Contact and collaboration
For workshops, professional training, collaborations and enquiries about educational work, you can contact the Sensibilisierung Initiative directly.