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DARE : Demystifying fears and failures to take action

2019-3-FR02-KA105-0165822019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: FR|EL|ES|IT|EE|DE|PT · Grant: €22,568.28
Social entrepreneurship / social innovationYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Objectives

As Europe is plagued with a tense economic and social context, embodied by a high unemployment rate, job insecurity and social isolation of vulnerable people, it is becoming more and more important for individuals to learn how to deal with stressful situations and find ways to step back and recover from failures, shocks or disruptions in a life-path/career. A lot of research demonstrates the value of an in-depth work on emotions, fears and failures in improving the ability of individuals (and the organizations they make up) to adapt to complex situations and to really engage with society. The point of such work is to enable a person to recognize their own emotional states and to be able to use them to their advantage. This knowledge will also help them notice emotions that other people are going through and improve their listening skills and empathy. This will in return contribute to creating a more supportive living and working environment for them, for their team and for the people around them. However, in order to get growing numbers of people familiar with these skills, those innovative concepts should spread in society, as well as the tools and specific methods to help each individual work on their emotions, change the way they look at their past experiences (personal, social, professional) and those of the people around them ; in the end they will become truly capable of exercising their power and their citizenship. Youth and social workers can highly contribute to this process by supporting, advising, guiding, training and attending to young people as well as people in precarious situations, vulnerable people or individuals going trough a transitional period in their socio-professional integration or in their efforts to launch a project or create their own job. However, most of those social workers lack the required knowledge, methods and tools to achieve this goal. The "DARE: Demystifying fears and failures to take action" training course thus offers to strengthen the skills of the participants in the fields of emotional intelligence and emotional agility, as well as providing them with practical methods and tools to better support the target groups. By developing their professional, social, intercultural and linguistic skills and extending their network abroad, it aims at improving the quality of youth work throughout Europe and more specifically the ability of youth and social workers to efficiently advise, train and support young people, vulnerable groups and young entrepreneurs in their life-path and initiatives. The training course intends to be a contribution to social innovation and to encourage a more inclusive culture in society, by enhancing people’s adaptability, giving them confidence in their ability to take action and developing both their entrepreneurial and their social skills.

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