Our project "Self Care For YOU(th)" With this project we’d like to address the issue of stress among youth workers and focus on development of their well-being in order to address the quality of educational activities they organise. Furthermore, we would like to train youth workers on usage of stress-management tools in their work with young people in order to created a balanced learning environment for them and provide ready-to-use copying mechanisms for challenging life situations.
Objectives:
identify the stress factors which influence youth workers in partner countries equip participants with the theoretical knowledge on the nature of stress provide educators with the stress-management tools for personal everyday use ( physical tools, art tools) to acquire concrete skills in time-management and learn how it can contribute to dealing with stress to learn about stress-management tools which can be used in work with young people in order to address their study-related stress and develop their emotional intelligence; to share good practices in stress management in education and youth work with the stress fact ors which influence youth workers in partner countries -Equip participants with the theoretical knowledge on the nature of stress -Provide educators with the stress-management tools for personal everyday use (physical tools, art tools) -Learn how mindfulness can contribute to eliminating stress and learn about MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction) techniques -Acquire concrete skills in time-management and learn how it can contribute to dealing with stress -Learn about stress-management tools which can be used in work with young people in order to address their study-related stress and develop their emotional intelligence -Train youth workers in using stress-management tools in youth work in different contexts -Share good practices in stress management in education and youth work.
The project is funded by Erasmus+ programme.