heART Project

Heart. 

A vital organ, pumping blood into our body, providing it with oxygen that we need to breathe and an amazing place full of emotions,  feelings and compassion. 

Art.

A way of self-expression that allows our imagination to create all sorts of beauty and includes everybody.

heART Project.

A possibility to explore and experience ourselves and others through embodied techniques and to use it to fight for social inclusion.With all our heART.

Put your heART into it!

About project

Embodiment approach - working with our body and voice - gives space and tools to discover who we really are. It is an experience of oneself, a learning process, time for reflection. Once we get to know ourselves, we  can open our hearts to each other and we care. 

In heART Project, we will gather 29 people from 10 countries who will share their knowledge and skills. We will use movement, voice expression, storytelling and theatre as a way to approach and work with disadvantaged groups of young people.

A big part of the training course is focused on creating activities for and with young people of the local project Bojovat Srdcem (Fight with Heart). It is an afterschool activity in the local elementary school Zelesice and supports young people with fewer opportunities (learning disabilities and behavioral disorders) with their integration into society through embodied arts.

What to expect

• body awareness session to reconnect with self & build rapport to others with principles of butoh, yoga, tango, dance etc.
• voice coaching session of the basics of breath control, articulation, resonance, pitch and tone to discover our own vocal image
• dynamic body movement & meditation to increase the awareness of own body and optimize energy management
• storytelling and Way of Council to share and learn from our stories
• working on topics of diversity, tolerance and inclusion using elements from Theatre of the Oppressed and improv theatre
• embodied workshops with and for children from Bojovat Srdcem (Fight with Heart)

What you get out of it

You will:

• learn to listen to your own body and to share your own experience with others 
• explore the possibilities of expression that your own body and voice offer to support your everyday interactions
• experience personal growth through embodiment
• learn how to maintain, create and expand connections with others
• get to know ways of using the embodied learning tools to empower youngsters and their inclusion
• create your own activities for your target groups
• have fun while increasing your creativity, flexibility and playfulness in an international group of youth workers

The training is for you if you are:

youth worker, educator, trainer or facilitator

ready to use or considering to use embodied techniques with your target groups

willing to experience yourself through 8 - 10 hours daily intense programme

enthusiastic, motivated, open to new challenges 

committed to participate in the project through all the phases (preparation, TC and organisation of a follow up activity)

18 + and speaking fluent English

a resident of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland or Spain

TEAM

Veronika 

Veronika is a trainer, facilitator and coach. She combines embodied learning methods with personal growth processes. Veronika loves to create a safe space for people to reconnect with themselves and connect with each other. She supports them on their journey to discover their inner power and use it to their full potential

Lucie

Lucie is a language and voice coach, teacher trainer, non-formal educator and a passionate traveller. She has been working with youth workers for over ten years, focusing mainly on personal development. She loves using singing, theatre and storytelling techniques in order to help people to become more aware of who they are and whom they want to be.

Hana

Hana is PR and media specialist for a science film festival and copywriter. She has been involved in youth work and non formal education for almost 15 years as youth leader, coordinator and trainer. She enjoys to work with words and stories. In youth work she focuses mostly on project and organizational management.

Pavel

Pavel is the initiator and coordinator of Bojovat Srdcem Project, an educator and a trainer of martial arts. His vision of a capoeira workshop is to raise people with love to sport and active lifestyle, with the desire to improve themselves, with the strong will and with the knowledge of their own possibilities, which they can develop.

INFOPACK
http://bit.ly/infopackheART