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Your Natural Element

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2021-2-HU01-KA153-YOU-000040236
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Learning Mobility of Individuals | Mobility of youth workers Funder Contribution: 33,545 EUR

Your Natural Element

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<< Objectives >>Your Natural Element aims to address youth workers with risk of burnout and develop their resilience/well-being and beneath that their ETS competences through the 10 days residential learning activities and through the online extended mentoring and dissemination during the 12 month collaboration. Competence development ensured in many ways - 1 residential courses based on the Five Element coaching tools and martial art for well being are meant to serve and develop social- cognitive (ETS) and beyond that, a set of well being-skills essential to tackle and prevent burn out. By which our target groups are addressed due to their high stress youth and social work or due to the covid pandemic. Aims are to support a) recognition of well being development reached at an individual and professional level thus building a positive self-confidence of youth workers and their young target groups; and b) recognition and visibility of positive influences of resilience within non-formal learning and youth work context in general. The competence development of youth workers will be resulted in a) personal resilience shields, that is a set of practices/guidelines they need to follow in their private/work life in order to ensure balanced life leading and for a prevention of burnout, b) 1,5 hours wellbeing workshop curriculum for youth workers as assignments best practice exchange “Learning Marathone” for well being c) a complete learning cycle based on ETS competence self-assessment d) various national and international dissemination events through online workshops g) 34 youth workers participating on a long-term blended learning event e) resilience toolkit for daily/weekly practices at the level of youth workers and their organizations.Here social inclusion as an important topic to address, it might sounds unique, but the target groups we are working with we define disadvantaged - youth workers who are at high risk of burnout ( working with youth of fewer opportunities as target groups - settlement, addiction, foster home, refugee background) or due to the increased stress that the current global pandemic puts on them. These youth workers are often not recognized in many ways: importance of their work, salary,- fluctuation rate is high.They can immediately start the new tools in their private/work life that will uplift their mental/physical health and wellbeing in general. They also benefit in using new ways of non-formal learning such as online/blended learning. We not only focus youth workers but on their organizations as well – we aim to raise awareness of healthy work styles for their working communities as well.Project was born during the dissemination/multiplicator events of HEART KA2 (2018-2021) and SOURCE conference that is to increase the quality of adult education and training by developing helping professionals’ competences, linked to work engagement using a new blended training method “HEART” https://elmenyakademia.hu/en/projects/heart-en/.The theme of resilience got many positive feedback in the harvesting and dissemination events of the project, thus we decided to continue with various tools to tackle the same phenomena ‘well-being’ with different methods, which can have a high impact on both youth workers' and their organizations' healthy work habits.<< Implementation >>Your Natural Element training flow is a blended learning event. The online and offline components are complementary to each other and support the learning flow for better outcomes.The Your Natural Element training flow1.online preparatory meeting: is meant to brief and prepare partnership about the upcoming tasks.2.online kick-off webinar: is for youth workers to provide preparation and clarification about the upcoming TC. We gather with partners to gain a detailed view of the whole project flow, to prepare organisations and youth workers for the residential and online mentoring/dissemination. This meeting helps them to get attuned with the blended learning journey, to identify steps to be taken in order to empower, equip and engage youth workers for the whole blended process. Briefing about ETS competences and mentoring happens there.Participants: 11 people from Partner organizations,trainers,managers,youth workers,thematic leaders, coaches, psychologists.3.online mentoring: face to face sessions, where youth workers receive tailor-made support according to their needs (preparation, linguistic support, burn out assessment, cultural differences or other hindrances)4.TC - The Your Natural Element residential training activity is about providing self-experience and youth work practice and tool kit enrichment with the support of the Five Elements coaching method and the connected martial art and well being tools. As part of it “Learning Marathon” will be organized where we create space for youth workers for best practice exchange, to circulate knowledge and tools about resilience and well being within the partnership, as some of our partners are experts of it. The multiplication event “Dragon Chikung dance” as an awareness raising event of participants for 50 local people, is meant to spread the message of the importance of well-being. Nevertheless which profession one is practicing.5.online mentoring: after TC face-to face sessions, where the learning outcomes, reflection, closing evaluation and follow up opportunities will take place.6.online evaluation webinar: group meeting, where participants of the TC are facilitated for a complete evaluation and reflection after 3 month in time.7.online national workshops: disseminatonal workshops, where participants provide resilience and well-being activities to their peers and target groups8.online international workshop: disseminational workshops where participants offer English well being workshop to a European youth worker community9.online partner follow up: a closing partner meeting, where all the aspects of the YNE learning flow will be evaluated, assessed and concluded. Future collaborations will be also discussed.In addition to this online learning outputs will be presented for the benefit of the partnership:a)ETS assessment toolb)burn out prevention questionnairec)the Five Elements/Your Natural Element tool kitd)description of workshops given for best practice sharing on the TCThe primary target groups of the Your Natural Element flow are:The main target group are the youth workers, trainers and young social workers of the participating organizations. All together 34 people from 11 countries in a balanced proportional share.Their character:-“preferably” having early symptoms of burnout, exhaustion, in this way we define them as youth with fewer opportunities: mental health related issues due to covid pandemic and due to exhaustive youth work - frontal, local youth work with disadvantaged youngsters. -youth workers who do local/international youth work but not affected by exhaustion or mild symptoms of burnout -youth workers, young social workers aged between 20 - 30 (80%)-trainers aged between 30 - 55 (20%)-we welcome youth workers/trainers on maternity leave -also we target youth workers who lost their jobs due to the pandemic situation<< Results >>34 youth workers equipped with resilience tools of the Five Element method learning activities.34 „resilience shield” created for sustainability of the youth workers’ own well-being. 34 Youthpass and self-assessment forms created based on ETS competencies 220 participants represented at the online dissemination events100 mentoring hours to support participants especially with fewer opportunities before and after TC 300 members of YNE partner organizations and associated organizations staff aware of results 500 views of the YNE youtube video;50 local people on creative and interactive dissemination events (Dragon Qi Gong perfomance) of Szentkút1 Your Natural Element FB page1 toolkit with easy to apply tools from The Five Elements System method1 increasing sustainable YNE community of youth workers, 500 people reached by the podcast epizode, Topic: Why wellbeing is crucial in your work?- 12 online dissemination events run by YNE youth workers after completing the coursesThe expected impacts of YNE can be summarized as follows:I. Direct impacts on:1. All persons youth workers, young people and coordinating teams of organizations will have:• Increased level of well being, thus increased motivation and satisfaction in youth work.• Increased level of understanding and acknowledgement of counterbalancing pandemic with conscious well being building• better understanding, application and integration of on-line learning into work life• better understanding and first-hand experience on how new coaching methods support awareness raising for social inclusion, pandemic impacts and recognition• increased awareness in NGOs about the importance of well being and it’s work related impacts• increased competence in foreign languages• greater understanding and responsiveness to social, linguistic and cultural diversity• more positive attitude towards European projects and the EU values.• Positive experience of being part of an international network of youth workers• Better understanding of basic learning phenomenons: competence development, skill development, basic knowledge on personal development and groupbehaviour as such• Increased awareness and knowledge about resilience and its important role in one’s health and well-being;• Increased consciousness on how resilience can be dealt with at a personal level The expected results are the followings:The 34 participating youth workers, trainers and young social workers will be with improved competences, linked to their occupational profiles and their own well being and mental health.The youth workers will have broader understanding of well being practices, youth work across to the participating countries due to the Five Elements coaching application and due to the best practice exchange on well being.The participating members of organisation (management, thematic leading, trainers, youth workers ) will have increased capacity to trigger changes in terms of blended learning and international opening within their organisations;Youth workers, trainers will gain better quality of their work and activities in favour of their target groups with fewer opportunity backgrounds and in favour of their well being.The participants will get greater responsiveness to social, digital transition as well as response to the pandemic situation.Youth workers will gain increased ability to address the needs of the disadvantaged especially in the field of physical and mental well-being.Participating young people and young volunteers will get an increased support for and promotion of mobility activities With the gained skills and competencies youth workers will have increased opportunities for their own professional development;Participants will leave with improved foreign language and digital competences;The participating organizations will have increased capacity to operate at EU/international level: improved management skills; reinforced cooperation with partners from other countries; The online preparatory meeting with the members or organizations allows an increased quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow up of projects;With the introduction and application of ETS competences and Youthpass for youth workers and trainers the project provides improved processes of recognition, assessment and validation of competences gained during learningThe partners will get more modern - innovative, committed - mentally healthy despite of the pandemic challenges, and professional environment inside the organisation.

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