This project was born out of the need to help youth workers and educators develop emotional competencies and skills to support themselves and youngsters in navigating the complexity of current times. European society is undergoing far reaching changes: growing ethnic diversity, increasing secularization, the rise of online media and technology, globalization, individualism and radicalisation are some of them, and in the past years and months we had to deal with the issues of the pandemic and the Ukranian war as well. While these highly impact the lives of all of us, teenagers and young adults seem to be particularly affected. We are living in unprecedented times and youngsters need to prepare themselves for a future in which previous references related to work, personal relationships, security and identity are no longer valid. The result is a constant and significant increase of anxiety,depression, burn outs, high consumption of drugs, radicalization and struggle in decision making among youngsters. Youth workers are now facing the uncertainty of modern times in their own lives, while acting as major supporters in guiding and training youth in how to handle those challenges. The goal of this training was first of all, to equip youth workers with the emotional skills that help them to develop the resilience and flexibility needed to cope and perform in this complex and ever-changing context. Our emotions deeply influence our relationships with others and ourselves, our ability to self-regulate, to manage conflicts and to solve problems. They impact our perseverance and our effectiveness at work. Emotions are also a powerful source of data about what is important to us, what we care about and how we want to live our lives. Emotional agility, that is, to acknowledge and accept our emotions, even the hard ones, and to be able to name them properly, is essential to help us responding optimally to challenging everyday situations and to take steps that help us to move forwards in life. Simultaneously, this training offered a framework and approach, as well as a specific toolbox in emotional intelligence, that can support youth workers and educators to further foster emotional competences and resilience in their own youth groups. The objectives of this training were: - to bring together 27 youth workers to improve their emotional skills through different workshops and embodied activities - to create a safe space in which youth workers can share the challenges of their own context and exchange insights and good practices - to test, share and collect a set of methodologies, activities and techniques based on the insights generated by the group This project was strongly linked to the following objectives of the Erasmus+ programme and this specific key action: - enhance the capacity of youth workers and organisations in their support for young people by showing different learning methods, especially regarding emotional intelligence. - better quality of their work and activities in favour of students, trainees, apprentices, pupils, adult learners, young people and volunteers by also addressing the emotional elements that impact that group. - greater understanding and responsiveness to social and cultural diversity by cultivating empathy and the ability to recognize their, and the group’s own biases, triggers and values. - increased ability to address the needs of the disadvantaged by acquiring tools to acknowledge and support their emotional needs. - increased motivation and satisfaction in their daily work by improving their emotional agility in challenging situations and overall resilience. Objectives meant to be reached indirectly: - enhanced employability and improved career prospects by qualifying youth workers to support youngsters in the development of soft skills highly demanded by the modern work market - prevent violent radicalization of young people by equipping them with different methods to manage emotions and handle conflicts. - promote active participation in society and combat social exclusion by increasing youth social skills and ability to self regulate