The training program introduces the participating teens to the skills and methods for building groups and leading group activities for younger children – activities designed to be fun, egalitarian and cooperative (Palestinian Arabs of Israel/Jews, boys/girls, etc.), in the spirit of our community overall. The participants are meant to evolve into a functional and cohesive working group while learning about a variety of techniques and approaches to games, group discussion, and leadership-building activities. We want to begin now to equip them to build – gradually – a shared bi-national youth culture, with appropriate values, norms, ideals, traditions, rituals and songs. Their training and group-building is envisioned as the foundation for an ongoing inter-generational community life (via the youth center and possibly a youth movement) serving two target groups through the age of 18 and perhaps beyond: one, the village’s own young people, plus (ideally) young people from adjacent communities who have studied at our bi-national primary school and share its ethos.