Training Course: "Just Listen" in Slovenia

Training Course: "Just Listen"
8-19 October 2023 | Trbovlje , Slovenia

"Just listen" is a training course co-financed by the European Union focused on deep listening and connecting to ourselves, other people and nature.

Goals and expected outcomes:
get more connected to our bodies, minds, emotions, recognising early symptoms of burnout and decrease of motivation, common among those who work with people
reflect about our core values, mission and vision of life, being more clear about what we want to achieve and how we want to achivie it
get to know different types of meditation, possible to use in daily work with young people; see the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and understand how it can influence our daily life and work with young people
develop our skills of empathy and deep listening
learn to recognise different emotions and the information these emotions convey to us as well as react in a proper way to our own emotions and to the emotions of other people, above all those of the youth they work with
get to know concepts of coaching and Nonviolent Communication and discuss how they can be used in their work with youth
get to know basic techniques to create social projects which answer real needs of local communities, including above all the Design Thinking methodology
connect to nature, learn to listen to it, observe, reflect and re-find our personal balance while being in the forest or other places ofthe nature
learn to include nature in youth work, giving young people the chance to go outside and experience nature and build connections with it
gain a holistic view of ourselves and the world, including a holistic perspective of our work with young people
learn how to have a more balanced life in a wide sense: work-life balance, balance of emotions, body and mind; balance in relation with other people; balance between urban life and having contact with nature
get inspired for deeper and more meaningful work with ourselves and youth