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Identifying and Overcoming Burnout: Essential Practices for Youth Workers

2020-1-PL01-KA105-0808742020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PL|GE|AM|MD|TR|SE|DE|UA|HR|IT · Grant: €18,937
Social entrepreneurship / social innovationOvercoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The project stems from the specific needs of NGOs and their youth workers who actively work with the youth sector. It can occur in the work process when youth workers experience prolonged stress at work or when they work in a physically or emotionally exhausting role for long periods of time. The TC aimed to enable youth workers to use improvisation tools, interpersonal communication tools and methods, art therapy and coaching methods as innovative tools to increase youth workers' professional and personal competence in empathetic communication, self-care methods and recognition of personal needs to prevent burnout situations. To achieve this, we set the following goals: - To improve youth workers' self-awareness, communication and social skills and competencies, (empathic communication with individuals and groups, non-violent communication, stress management,...); - Strengthen the emotional and cognitive development of participants to improve their learning processes and interpersonal communication. interpersonal communication - Increase the capacity of youth workers by enriching their working methods with improvisational theater by offering activities that better address the challenges they face; - Increasing the involvement of governmental and non-governmental institutions in securing and supporting young people in improving their soft skills; - Creating a space to share best practices focusing on the use of non-formal education methods in youth work. Work; - Introduce Youth Pass as a tool for self-assessment, evaluation and recognition of non-formal learning; - Supporting international development cooperation between the regions of Europe, the Caucasus and the Eastern Partnership and their neighboring countries.

Project partners (10)