This project’s concept was developed in 2019 by IPTA as a follow-up initiative of other local and international youth initiatives where IPTA provided expertise on working with violence and interpersonal conflicts. The initial structure of the partnership consisted of 8 organizations from Romania, Latvia, Estonia, Turkey, Northern Macedonia, Denmark, UK and Italy. Some members of the partner organizations worked with IPTA’s staff in these activities and they expressed the need of adapting their working methodology with an effective approach that would enable them to recognize and prevent abusive and violent behaviors among their young beneficiaries. We wanted to create and support a network of youth workers who promote a preventive approach on conflicts and violence among their beneficiaries. The project experienced fully the impact of the pandemic, hence the partnership structure reduced to a number of four partners (DK, IT, EE and MK withdrawing from the implementation). With this project, we envisaged to address the need of an exhaustive understanding of different types of violence and how the sources of conflicts are creating aggression, abusive tendencies, violence and battering. Following our research prior to the project, we observed that preventive education is not really included in the programs offered by youth organizations, as the focus is mainly centered on conflict resolution, which is a post-event approach. The project partners are working with groups of youngsters who are living in communities where abuses and violence are not hidden. Moreover, the project brought the cultural elements that are fueling the expression of violent behaviors, such as domestic violence, ethnicity-related conflicts or public rhetoric against immigrants. Even if the sources of violence are observed by the youth workers in general, the understanding of the phenomena is limited broad theoretical concepts, with insufficient NFL-based tools. The methodology prepared in this project included three dimensions of the learning process: acquiring knowledge, practical experience and reflective evaluation. We used a systemic thinking model by observing from three perspectives the concept of violence: visualizing its complexity, verbalizing and expressing its complexity, and exploring the reality of the topic in all the aspects. The focus was mainly on the organizational and national realities of the partners. The project aimed at developing a set of competences that enable these youth workers to ease their work with youngsters coming from various backgrounds: rural areas, ethnic and religious minorities, unemployed or facing poverty, victims of bullying or violence, precarious family background. Multiple of the beneficiaries of the partner organizations face at a time multiple of these situations. The following objectives where followed: • Equipping 24 youth workers during a seven days TC (Training Course) with relevant competences for understanding and preventing the occurrence of interpersonal conflicts generated by abusive and violent behavioral patterns; • Incorporating in the participants’ work a preventive approach against violence manifestations by creating a personalized plan to fit each organization before the end of the project’s implementation; • A better understanding for the participants of the principles and benefits of using holistic facilitation as a working principle; • Strengthen the cooperation between the partner organizations by creating an international network of youth workers motivated to initiate new international actions that would prevent the occurrence of violence.