POSTPONED Are You(th) Aware? - Training course on self-awareness and wellbeing in Youth Work

Main Aim

To develop competences on how to foster self-awareness and wellbeing in Youth Work.
This training course provides a safe learning space for participants to foster/approach self-awareness and well-being competences in themselves and to multiply among young people through acting as a role model and providing non formal learning.

Objectives of the training

• The training consists of a series of workshops based on non formal learning approaches that aim:
• To enhance the self-awareness of youth workers and young leaders in regards to their personal well-being, enabling them to act as effective role models and multipliers of healthy lifestyles for young people.
• To develop in youth workers the ability to recognize different youth needs and how to approach them in constructive ways.
• To provide youth workers with non formal learning tools to cultivate wellbeing and self-awareness in young people.
• To promote self-awareness and wellbeing as key attributes of happiness and harmony in human life and relationships.

Learning outcomes

• Participants get time to reflect on themselves
• Participants increase their self-awareness
• Participants get opportunities to explore their identity
• Participants develop knowledge on how to increase self-esteem
• Participants learn to enhance their well-being
• Participants reflect on the youth needs of the youth they work with
• Participants get to know non-formal learning tools to assess youth needs
• Participants explore their own experiences and knowledge
• Participants explore educational tools to foster wellbeing in youth
• Participants get to know different methodologies to increase wellbeing and self-awareness of young people
• Participants are encouraged to continue their learning practice on wellbeing and self-awareness