✍️ Call for "Guides Of Emotions" Training Course

INEDNET correspondent
Sep 10
4 min read

🗓️ DATE: 4-13 November 2025

📍 PLACE: PANEVĖŽYS, Čiūrai village, Lithuania

🧠TYPE: Erasmus+ Training Course

🎯 TOPIC: Mindfulness, emotional intelligence, resilience for youth workers

👥 AGE ELIGIBILITY: 22+ years old

✍️ DEADLINE for APPLICATION: 13 September 2025, 23:59

🔎 Learn more and apply >> The selection will be done on a rolling basis. Don't wait until the last minute to apply.

🎯 AIM AND OBJECTIVES

The event will bring together 30 youth workers from Lithuania, Hungary, Spain, Armenia, Estonia, and Ukraine. Over the course of 8 days, we aim to foster each other’s personal growth through non-formal education and mindfulness.

The training course aims to strengthen youth workers’ emotional intelligence, communication, resilience, and conflict management skills. Through a combination of non-formal education and mindfulness practices, participants will develop greater self-awareness, empathy, and effective communication strategies. The program seeks to empower youth workers to manage stress, prevent burnout, and build supportive relationships with young people, ensuring their methods align with the evolving needs of modern youth.

Objectives:

1. Improve youth workers' self-awareness to help them better recognise and understand their own emotions;

2. Strengthen youth workers' self-regulation skills, enabling them to manage their emotional

reactions effectively in youth;

3. Foster social awareness and empathy in youth workers, enabling them to better understand and connect with the emotions of both their colleagues and the young people they support;

4. Improve relationship management skills, fostering stronger, more positive interpersonal relationships and communication;

5. Encourage continuous self-reflection and professional development among youth workers;

6. Create opportunities for youth workers to share experiences, best practices, and challenges in the field of youth work.

🔍 PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE

Eligibility Criteria

Age: 22+ years old
Professional background:
- Currently working or volunteering in a youth center, NGO, or community-based organization.
- Involved in daily youth work activities, such as facilitating workshops, mentoring young people, organizing events, or providing guidance and support.
Experience:
- Minimum 1 year of practical experience in youth work or non-formal education.
- Familiarity with challenges young people face in today’s society and a desire to improve personal and professional competencies to support them better.
Commitment to learning:
- Open to exploring mindfulness practices and integrating them into youth work.
- Willing to participate fully in non-formal education activities, group reflections, and mindfulness sessions.
Personal motivation:
- Passionate about personal growth and interested in developing emotional intelligence and resilience.
- Ready to spend 8 days in a peaceful and calm venue, away from daily distractions, fully focusing on self-awareness, group connection, and learning.
Language skills:
- Able to communicate effectively in English, as it will be the working language of the training.

Preferred Qualities

We highly encourage applications from youth workers who:

Are enthusiastic about self-reflection and open to exploring new methods and practices;
Are willing to share their experiences and challenges in youth work with peers;
Are committed to bringing back and multiplying the knowledge gained during the course in their local contexts.
Can create a safe and inclusive space for themselves and others.

IMPORTANT DETAILS

The organising team believes that mindful living is the first step towards wellbeing. To feel comfortable, we encourage each participant to check in with oneself that you are passionate about the topic and ready to spend a week in a peaceful venue, with no intoxicants, emerging into oneself, group connection and non-formal learning.

NOTE: This is an alcohol-free event. The Internet is not good.

Dissemination is a crucial part of projects funded by the European Union. The EU is investing in You, as a community leader, change maker, thus each of us is responsible to give back and share the experience among our network with the goal that at least one newcomer discovers the opportunities of the EU.

Each participant is responsible for performing:

1) Visibility on social media: share at least one post/story on your personal/NGOs' social media about your experience during the exchange;

2) Article: one participant per country shall write an Article promoting the project and post it on the sending NGOs website/social media;

3) Dissemination workshop: each national group organises one workshop with at least 10 local people about the experience.

ACCOMMODATION

The gathering will take place in a modest retreat center PAS RAPOLĄ in Krekenava, Panevėžys district. It is located near Krekenava village, Panevėžys municipality. There will be 2-3 people per room with shared bathroom facilities. The nearest shop is 10km away, make sure you prepare for it.

💱 COSTS

The organisers will provide the food and accommodation and cover the costs. Travel costs will be counted based on the distance calculator of the European Commission and reimbursed by bank transfer after the course (in EUR) through the sending organisations. According to the distance calculator for Armenia, the maximum travel cost is 395 euros.

⚰️ DEADLINE

The deadline for applying is 13 September 2025 at 23:59 Armenian time. Hurry up, as we have limited time related to visa issues and will make the selection on a rolling basis, which means when we get applications, we start evaluating them immediately, so first come, first served. Don't wait until the last minute to apply.

✍️ Interested candidates can apply by filling in this form: https://forms.gle/HzyHNywA5VkNMmTD7

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