Educator Susan Bauer writes that ''young people know little about their bodies, but ironically, they are intensively focused on their bodies, often in unhealthy ways. They think about their appearance, weight, physical skills, and how they are perceived by their peers. With all this focus on their bodies, the actual study of the body is mostly omitted from the school curricula. The silence that exists around the body is of concern for young people, since the body is a source of self-esteem, both positive and negative.'' The goal of the partners who were implementing this project was to explore how to break this silence around the body and increase awareness of impact of body image related matters on the learning and participation. Researchers conclude that body dissatisfaction can start already from age of 8. The failure of existing approaches to address the problem shows the need for action from educators and health professionals to give young people a better chance of a healthy body image which, in turn, leads to a more healthy approach to life. The strong link between negative body image and behaviors that lead to long-term mental and physical impairment makes it crucial that we find sustainable solutions. Negative body image is a precursor of serious social, medical and mental health issues including anxiety, depression, social withdrawal, stigmatization and eating disorders. Thus it is very important for youth workers to develop understanding about the struggles with body image that young people go through and to be able to notice when to intervene and offer help, but also be equipped with the tools to address this issue with a young person or a group of young people. This was the main need that we want to address with the help of this project. The project had two main aims: - To train youth workers and professionals involved in education, training and youth to develop awareness and skills of creating inclusive language and approach in non-formal education activities, taking into account the vulnerability of young people and the potential triggers that can come up during any activity that involves body movement, connection with others or being in front of the group. - To equip youth workers with knowledge and methods of how to develop a conversation among young people about body image and body acceptance, how to improve the body image and confidence of a young person, helping young people to see their bodies as a source of strength, and not a source of problems. In order to reach these aims an international training course was implemented which had following related learning objectives: - To develop more inclusive facilitation approach and style that takes into account the various backgrounds of participants, and especially their relationship and attitudes towards their bodies. - To improve participants’ awareness on how the facilitation of non-formal education activities foster inclusive space or perpetuate existing stereotypes, whether based on gender, race, physical abilities, sexuality, age or any other aspect of the identity. - To explore existing practices that create a trauma sensitive and body positive teaching approaches. - To explore and create ways to transform existing non-formal education methods into more sensible and inclusive activities. - To develop an understanding of the struggles with body image that young people go through. - To develop an inner a radar on being able to notice when to intervene and offer help when a young person has body image related challenges. - To equip youth workers with the tools and competences for facilitating body positivity sessions with groups of young people. We believe that achieving these learning objectives important for youth workers in order to be able to assist young people in their personal struggles. This project offers involved organizations and their staff and volunteers an improved way of operating towards their target groups and improve their youth work practices. As body positivity stands for acceptance and appreciation of all human body types, as well as inclusion of all genders, ages, races, people with disabilities and those of diverse sexual orientation, with this project we also explored how to live European values such as human dignity and equality, as well as promoted diversity, tolerance and critical thinking.