WELLCORE. Creative tools for WELL-being, COnnection and REsilience

The main aim of this training course is to explore creative tools and resources to facilitate connection, resilience and wellbeing in youth work. Participants will experience different tools themselves, reflect and exchange about their experience and transfer them to their own work context and their daily life. Especially in times of crisis it is important to not only focus on physical but also mental health of people. This can be seen as an act of solidarity to yourself and others and we want to explore and discuss how these topics affect community life.

As non formal trainers and youth workers, the trainer team of this course, Yolanda, Ohiane, Mohammed and Dina all come together with different backgrounds and experiences but with a common goal and vision: to use creative and movement-based tools as a means to help you to connect with your inner child, to connect with others around you and implement playfulness and transfer these elements in your work.

Objectives:

• Developing competences for emotional management, resilience, connection and well-being in youth work and connecting these to the topic of solidarity and community.
• Promoting a learning platform in which participants can share ideas, reflections and needs.
• Facilitating the creation of mutual support networks among the participants, organisations and associated promoters, developing strategies for future projects in wellbeing, connection and resilience.

Facilitators and Methodologies:
We will be using techniques related to different styles such as movement/somatics, creativity and art therapy, circus, nature connection, acroyoga and sports giving an important space for self experience and reflection all throughout the training.

It is the goal as well to start and finish with an online-meeting, so we will include exploring possibilities to bring wellbeing techniques to online/digital youth work as well, even though this won’t be our main focus.

The online meeting will take place within 2 weeks prior to the training and will be communicated as soon as possible. We advise you to participate, but we will not exclude you from the training if you can’t.

This training course is a Training Practise Project (TPP) of trainers currently attending the Training of Trainers, edition 2021/22.

Information related Pandemic issues

Please note, that at this stage (22 March 2022) all persons aged 12 and over are required to provide proof when entering Germany - regardless of the means of transport used and regardless of whether they are entering from a high-risk or virus variant area: Those entering the country must be able to prove one of these three options: negative corona test (PCR), full vaccination or recovery.  

1. Negative test:   PCR tests as well as rapid antigen tests carried out or monitored by a service provider, appropriately trained staff in the company or an authorized body abroad are recognized upon entry. The test result on which the test certificate is based must not exceed more than 48 hours before entering Germany. Antibody tests are not accepted. When entering the country from a virus variant area, a current PCR test is required before carriage. Should you enter from a virus variant area please fill in the digital entry registration. https://www.einreiseanmeldung.de/#/  

2. Proof of vaccination:  Regardless any prior vaccinations, you will reach full and recognised status in Germany should you prove at least two shots including 14 days period with in the European Union approved vaccines: Comirnaty, Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373),  Spikevax (COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna), Vaxzevria (COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca), Covid 19 Vaccine Janssen.   

3. Proof of recovery:   The requirements for proof of recovery are set by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). Those who have recovered must prove a previous infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus using a PCR test (or other methods of nucleic acid amplification technology). The sample collection date for this test is at least 28 days and no more than 90 days in the past old.  

JUGEND für Europa will ensure togethter with the hosting venue, that safety and hygienic measures needed in relation to Covid-19 Pandemic are in place during the activity.  

Sources 

https://www.infektionsschutz.de/ 

https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/service/gesetze-und-verordnungen/guv-19-lp/coronaeinreisev.html 

https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/pub/publication/d9JJjQxZHLAox58JuSJ/content/d9JJjQxZHLAox58JuSJ/BAnz%20AT%2002.03.2022%20V1.pdf?inline