Choose to be HAPPY - well being and resilience for the longevity of youth work

With the implementation of Choose to be Happy! we wish to address youth workers with risk of burnout, and of job quitting  and develop resilience/well-being skills. We wish to ensure strengthening and empowerment of youth workers and provide effective learning and training methods for the sustainability of their profession.

Choose to be Happy! contributes:

- to improve the quality of your youth work and life

- ton increase the level of your resilience/well being 

- to draft a sustainable career path as a youth worker

Choose to be Happy! is based on innovative methodological combinations. 

The primary method is experiential learning: embodied learning, storytelling and improvisation, which we combine in order to reach a positive mental health and resilience approach.

Combining these methodologies can give the opportunity to accomplish the followings:

- professional accompaniment of you and your groups based on connection while maintaining competence boundaries, in a focused but sensitive way

- to support you if you have early symptoms of burnout 

- the support the longevity and satisfactory of your youth work career

- to create innovative adaptations and develop your  local youth work through a combination of safer, more inclusive approaches that is accessible to handle mild mental health issues in your environment

The training has 3 parts which guides you through inner and outer landscapes connected to your well being and professional aims.

In the first part with the support of Gergő Kiss we practice and discover theater improvisation and the power of mistakes defined as learning.

In the second part with the facilitation of Mafalda Morganti we learn the power of stories and its transformative narrations to our lives.

In the third part with the guidance of Afonso Bertolo we embody our learnings and integrate and express our outcomes on a deeper level.

Come with us and be ready to surprise yourself!