RISE - Cultivating Resilient Youth: Lessons from the Natural World

RISE is an international training course aimed to people who consider themselves - or strive to become - agents of cultural (r)evolution and social transformation. Humans who, with their daily actions, are models in their community and leaders of the awakening and change in the world. People who are ready to turn their look inwards and explore everything – light and dark - that is in their hearts and souls.

Reconnecting with nature is fundamental to human and planetary well-being and to the future of the global ecosystem. In the last 2000 years, many people have been increasingly alienated from their natural environment. Humans have forgotten the language of Intuition, Mystery and the wild world and replaced it with the language of science and technology. Fewer and fewer people turn to the wisdom of Dreams, Natural cycles, the Cosmos and the Forest, and we fear them more and more. Nature which created us has become for humans a warehouse for goods and things

By offering an eight day intensive immersion program, we are creating a space for connecting with the wisdom of Nature, the forgotten ways of intuition, vision, dreams and the deep human connection with nature.

AIM OF THE PROGRAM

To provide innovative ways and methods to provoke deep nature connection and eco-awakening, and take steps towards personal transformation in a more wholesome and connected way. It will also aim at empowering the participants to offer these methods to the various groups and individuals they work with and become agents of visionary change within their communities.

OBJECTIVES

• To develop new skills, competences and ideas in facilitating the development of deep nature connection;
• To develop participant’s knowledge in nature-based human development by learning and practicing the principles and models of eco-centric development;
• To provide an opportunity to experience a space of safety, intimacy, and profound connection in which personal exploration is encouraged and supported by community;
• To engage and guide participants through innovative processes of personal transformation aiming at eco-awakening;
• To inspire in the participants a shift in values and worldviews that will foster a deep nature connection, empathy to all creatures and a sense of oneness with the natural world;
• To support participant’s connection to their sense of responsibility for the environment and Earth's future.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE

This program is for people who are working in the field of inclusion, social support, youth work, or mentoring. These could be non-formal educators, youth workers, psychologists, schoolteachers, career counselors, wilderness guides, or anyone involved in supporting or guiding the development of a person. Most importantly, the program is for people who have a hunger and readiness to look at their own personal transformation with a view to thereafter offer their gifts to others. Participants also need to have an interest or curiosity for nature and the wild outdoors as this will be a pillar method and they will spend a week immersed in a natural environment.

You can apply for this training course if you are resident of Bulgaria, France, Italy, Germany, Slovakia or Sweden.

Participants must be over 18 years and have a good level of English as the entire course will be held in English.

Read the detailed Call for participants - LINK