Self Care for YOU(th)

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.