Background of the project ”Health and Well-being through Nature-based Methods” is the need to use nature-based educational tools to support young people and youth workers on a deeper level, like improving their personal and mental well-being while developing attitudes towards healthy lifestyles on one hand. On the other hand, IYNF aimed to stimulate youth participation in the Naturefriends network because we observed over the last years a lack of involvement of young people due to mental health issues or lack of motivation being socially engaged. It is worth mentioning that those issues already arose in the time before the COVID-pandemic. We believe that nature-based methodology has the power to transform non-formal education into deeper levels of learning, where participants would be able to tackle personal issues and realise their true self, creating sustainable and authentic change from within themselves and their communities, and ideally transform disengagement and disconnection into an active lifestyle. Therefore, the methodology was designed to deepen the quality of youth work by interrelating methods in outdoor education, self-awareness and intercultural understanding as conditions for happiness, motivation, mission in life, professional potential and community building. The objectives were to: - Increase knowledge and skills in the field of environmental education. - Deliver knowledge about holistic thinking and healthy lifestyles. - Develop attitudes towards nature-based youth work, open communication, ceremonies and rites of passage and how it can be included in contemporary educational and experiential activities. - Develop competences to recognize young people’s strong and weak sides, and be open to their vulnerability and personal development. - Create a space for intercultural awareness by sharing stories about ancient wisdom and symbols from different cultures. - Create innovative educational tools for self-discovery based on ecocentrism. To foster the challenges of this lifetime (especially climate change, political extremism & job security) Europe needs young leaders, who act with a healthy, cooperative and participative mind-set.