Training Course: "Resilience in youth work" in Romania

Training Course: "Resilience in youth work"
9-17 September 2023 | Cabana Fulg de nea, Romania

Resilience in youth work is a training course that aims to provide integrating methods and activities from resilience building and queer youth work in order to address challenges that most of young queer people are facing in their lives.

Throughout the course, space and framework for personal and social growth will be provided; through artistic expression participants will acquire new skills that will empower them and help them in self-prevention of burnout. Mindfulness, compassion, nature based methods are some of the core virtues and approaches participants will be able to explore and get familiar with in order to bring positive changes in their own lives and create more self-sustainable paths for their communities.

More specifically, this training course aims at:
enabling young people to become architects of their own lives through self-development activities and practice of resilience skills
supporting personal development of youth workers and their target groups through discovering intrapersonal and interpersonal sources of strength
equipping participants with life skills to cope with a changing world
exploring potential and benefits in the field of inclusive youth work
creating “open space” opportunities in which participants are able to exchange skills and knowledges and learn from each other
addressing challenges that most of young people are facing at one point of their life such as: building one's self-awareness and self esteem, overcoming emotional distress caused by outer/external disturbances such as discrimination, harassment, sexisms, bullying or similar; creating of one's future career path.