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Heartful Leader - Awaken Your Creative Potential as Youth Worker

Training Course

24 June - 2 July 2024 | organic farm Metta, Slovenia

7 day TC designed to provide youth workers with creative tools and intuitive insights on how to establish empathic, magnetic and meaningful pedagogical relationships with youth in times of generational crisis and educational paradigm transition.

Heartful Leader is an intense 7-day learning experience hosted by Društvo Metta, designed for youth workers, trainers, and educators dedicated to fostering the potential of young individuals.

Meeting the youth from the space of mutual respect and authentic connection, we will be exploring: 

  • improvisation as a teaching tool
  • intuition as a guide for pedagogy ancestral cosmovisions as new/old models of cooperation                                                                                                            
  • playfulness as a serious tool for group cohesion
  • potential of group games                                                                                         
  • shadow work of the teacher mask
  • use of contemporary rituals and symbols in pedagogy
  • awakened body: how western civilization suppressed the main vehicle for education, the human body. 

The learning mobility will take place at organic farm Metta, Slovenia. The place offers modest yet pleasant accomodation in shared rooms. Most of the activities will take place outdoors. Wholesome and nutricious vegan / vegetarian meals will be provided for the participants. As we wish to open a safe space to meet in our authenticity, the participants will be invited to follow a no alcohol & no substance use policy for their entire stay. 

We are looking forward to welcome people working with youth (youth workers, trainers, educators, volunteers, scout leaders, mental health professionals, movers, NGO leaders working with marginalized groups, youth, etc.) who wish to support their groups in a more embodied and holistic way. The participants must be over 18 years old and have a communicative level of English language, so they can participate fully in a program that will be held in English. 

Selected participants are expected to commit fully to all the phases of the project (preparation, main activity, follow up). 

For more information, please see: Heartful Leader INFOPACK

WE STILL HAVE SOME FREE SPOTS OPEN FOR PARTICIPANTS FROM SLOVAKIA, HUNGARY AND ROMANIA. 

If you are a resident of another European country (not listed in infopack) AND active within an NGO that is willing to become a partner for this project, you can also apply (please state the name and OID number of your organization). 

 

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Applications are closed

The application deadline was 13 May 2024.

Date of selection: 15 May 2024

Training overview

http://trainings.salto-youth.net/12294

This Training Course is

for 27 participants

from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia

and recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

Društvo Metta (Youth NGO)

Društvo Metta is a non-profit organization that works in the areas of work with young people, healthy living, personal development, spiritual growth, ecology and environmental protection, culture, art and education.

Contact for questions:

Tinka Hernavs

E-Mail:

Phone: ++38631342762

Costs

Participation fee

None. Based on your own judgement and financial ability, we encourage a donation on a sliding scale from 80 to 180 eur (in cash upon arrival).*

*Money should NOT be an obstacle to your participation! In case you cannot afford the contribution, please contact us.

Accommodation and food

are fully covered by the Erasmus+ grant.

Travel reimbursement

Travel costs will be reimbursed individually (after the participants submit their original travel tickets & invoices), up to the max. amounts of:

28 eur for Slovenia (56 eur if green travel)

211 eur for Austria, Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Croatia (285 eur if green travel)

309 eur for Romania and Poland (417 eur if green travel)

We strongly encourage GREEN TRAVEL (by train, bus, car pooling) - below 500 km, participants are expected to travel with low-emissions means of transport. 

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

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