Pathways to Resilience in Youth Work

Reality is not always as favourable as we would like it to be, and there are moments when we have to face challenges that sometimes might seem too overwhelming and impossible to handle. This is how we came across the Resilience topic and we figured out that by taking care of its five pillars (Self-awareness, Mindfulness, Self-care, Positive Relationships, and Purpose) we can reach the goals mentioned above and create and feed a sustainable source of power within ourselves that will enable us to face the challenges in our personal and professional life. Moreover, we would like to explore how this knowledge, skills, and attitudes could be incorporated in our activities with young people and how they can become an inseparable part of everything we do.

Welcome to Pathways to Resilience in Youth Work!

Dates and venue of the training course

The seminar will take place from 25th (afternoon) till 31st July 2024  (arrival – 25th July and 1 departure day - 31st July) in Bulgaria, in Imenieto hotel, Emen, (http://imenieto.com/en/), in the Veliko Tarnovo region. The participants need to arrive in the afternoon on 25th July in Veliko Tarnovo and depart on 31st July 2024.

Learning goals  

During the event you will have the possibility to:

• get insights on the topic of resilience in youth work
• learn different techniques how to raise capacities and resilience as youth workers, trainers, and activists
• learn about the 5 pillars of Resilience: Self-awareness, Mindfulness, Self-care, Positive Relationships, and Purpose
• explore a variety of methods for raising participants’ ability to withstand or to bounce back from difficulties and learn how to choose the appropriate ones for themselves and for the people they work with
• collectively reflect on how to use different well-being tools in our organisations, adapt them to our local contexts and incorporate them in our regular activities

The ideal participants are educators and trainers (also to-be trainers), workcamp coordinators, volunteers, NGOs staff and board members and youth workers with an interest in resilience and well-being, non-formal education, social inclusion, and its applications in their work with young people.

There are a few formal requirements you need to answer to join the training course:

1. You need to be a resident of an EU country or a country associated to the Erasmus+ Programme.

2. You must be able to communicate in English (the working language of the course).

3. You must be at least 18 years of age.

4. You need to attend the whole course duration (there is no possibility to make exceptions).

5. You commit yourself to take part in the preparatory and in the follow-up phase of the project.

If you are interested in participating, please read the Call for Participants and apply by 10.06.2024 filling in the online application form. 

Selected participants will be informed by 25.06.2024. All applicants will be informed about the final decision. 

For any further questions, please contact us at trainings@cvs-bg.org.

The training is a part of the Erasmus+ accreditation plan of CVS-Bulgaria for 2023 and co-funded by the European Union // From Well-being to Well-doing 2023-1-BG01-KA151-YOU-000139334