"The project aims to contribute further to the development of quality of helping professions in Europe. The objective is to develop an innovative self-experience training for counsellors. It focuses on the helping professions providing services on currently widely spread constructivist basis. That's why our objective is also to share expert knowledge among specialists in SocioDynamic counselling as one of highly effective approaches to the helping process in nowadays unpredictable world. This will deepen European cooperation in the field of SocioDynamic counselling. Helping professionals have many high quality tools and approaches but generally don´t have inner abilities for using the tools to their maximums, as education programs normally don´t focus enough on clearly defined ""inner state""-factors. Among “inner state” factors are: mental models (prejudices), value systems, language patterns, interactions of Body and Mind (i.e. embodiment), conflicts in communication, resilience, salutogenesis (i.e. factors supporting human health and well-being), Dialogical competences (e.g. radical respect), the interactions of emotions and thinking-processes, ambiguity, dissonance (i.e. mental conflict), self-esteem, inner development (character strengths), self-reflection, stress and burn-out. Focusing on these issues will higher the probability of sustainable effects on counsellors themselves and their clients. These aims of further professionalizing counsellors are based on findings of partners´ practical experiences + different recent scientific research-findings. We have a unifying term for helping professionals, a term “counsellor”. They are our target group and consist e.g. of: career counsellors for adults, job coaches, personalists, teachers in adult education, lecturers, tutors, guidance counsellors for prevention and behavioral issues, social workers and other professionals from social services, professionals in non-profit advice bureaus, trainers, staff in enterprises, doctors, nurses, caretakers, counsellors for financial literacy, etc. The results of the project will be a self-experience training and a handbook to support also those who will not attend the training. We will organize a model training, consisting of 4 3-day trainings throughout 1 year. There we will test our innovative output and evaluate it together with the participants. Final curriculum of The Self-experience training for counsellors and European Development of Counsellors - Handbook ""Inner State"" will be openly available and disseminated on national levels and European level. The training will consist of theory and practical exercises. In between the training blocks there will always be an e-learning session with lecturers. There the counsellors will have space for sharing emotions, being in direct contact with each other and lecturers, will have the possibility to discuss given study texts and their learning diary. The counsellors will have tasks to fulfill between in-person sessions. The counsellors need to try things under supervision of lecturers, then in their praxis, then they need to come back to their experience and analyze it under guidance of lecturers. Short trainings lack such possibility, therefore the effect is minimal. Trainings which last for several years are usually required for therapists. Therapists are not the target group of this project. One year duration is optimal for our target group. The training will be lectured by an international team of qualified trainers who will be able to train other trainers after the project is finished, so the impact can grow in time. It can be held in English or national languages or combination of English and a national language. Language variability enables this to be offered to counsellors all over Europe and thus support an increase of the number of qualified constructivist counsellors around Europe. The training will add to their further education by building up relevant aspects of the so called ""inner state"". The resulting psychological ""structure"" will lead to a higher quality of counselling and a much higher probability for sustainable changes and empowerment for the later clients. In other words, there is a direct impact on clients´ lives expected. And in this sense, we can talk about an impact on the whole society. At a European level the desired additional impact is to ""open the eyes of relevant stakeholders"" to the problem that counsellors in many countries in fact have a good general (and mostly standardized, well defined) education, but the so important inner-factors as described here are significantly neglected. This project shall contribute to improving this situation. The training can be useful for a wide range of adults not only from the geographical point, as stated above, but also from the point of different areas of counselling and other areas. The training develops skills which are generally valid for all who work with people – e.g. managers or businessmen."