Burn out is a result of cumulating unreacted stress in the long term, which shows its consequences in physiology, emotions, relations with others etc.It touches many stages of life, in the way that the person who suffers from it, at first does not realize the real reason behind those negative changes. It all results in worse well-being and health problems. Some of the consequences are: willingness to be isolated, worse relations with others,no interest in previous hobbies, problems with dealing with emotions, worse efficiency and effectiveness, losing the joy of work and daily activities, problems with concentrating, memory, creative thinking. The stress and pressure connected with social engagement results in losing the motivation and power to work and de facto to change the world into better place-this what for people working in3rd sector has the highest value.“Burn out” becomes more often a topic under the discussion-mostly in business, still not in3rd sector. Aim is to emphasize that burn out is a common problem, and also has high space in3rd sector touching people like youth workers, leaders of NGOs, activists, educators etc. All involved organizations work for local, national or international well-being,solving problems of youth and other groups. Many times forgetting about themselves, and their own well-being.As commonly known-it’s important and better to prevent than to cure. The organizations involved in project implementation have great experience in working in the third sector–as organizations and/or people who create those organizations. Spending many years on working for others.In order to be able to bring help to others, it’s important to know how to take care of yourself. Current data say that it’s common to change the workplace after2-4years of working.The same data shows that more and more often it’s recommended to change their professions after some years of working.It’s recommended to do so,in order to avoid the feeling of burn out,in order to overcome the feeling. The project focuses on exchanging good practices between the partners on the topic of social burnout to increase the knowledge and awareness about the symptoms – how to recognize them, what are they and how to manage with social burn out. There will be organized three Joint Staff Trainings, each of them will be focused on different objectives: the attitude at work (to be able to assure yourself with inner harmony), assertiveness etc; the ETS Competence Model due to which we will be working on chosen competences in order to minimalize the risk of social burn out; and learning new methods to overcome the problem by mindfulness, yoga, meditation, alternative medicine and get back to the previous harmony in order to be able to provide other actions in the third sector without the need of changing the profession. The path of learning from each other is structured. Nowadays the topic of social burnout exists but it is underestimated. The scale is much higher than we have the data about, and it is important to be able to prevent from extending the scale of the problem and be able to cure when it exists. Those are the main aims to which the project is a response.
-Notice and work on the problem of burn out, become aware of symptoms -Be able to help yourself and others when the problem of burn out appears Know how to and educate adult workers on: -react when the feeling of burn out appears -deal with getting the distance to work, and its issues -the methods of working on burnout -ways of taking care of the work-life balance -find the peace of mind -settle goals in order not to forget about own needs and life -find a balance when the harmony is destroyed -use critical thinking on the current situation, be able to make conclusions out of it and bring the solutions into action, -the ways of working on assuring the harmony: e.g. by yoga, mindfulness, self-development tasks, goal setting, meditation,etc. -implement assertiveness -Focus first on the own problem of the educator,activist,adult educator etc.–putting their own problem and finding the solution on it in the first place -Presence of participants at the workshops -15participants x 3workshops x4partner org. -Participants with lower opportunities - at least 20 -Increasing the knowledge and skills to recognize, overcome and avoid the problem of social burnout -2 TPMs, 8 participants each -3 JSTs, 12 participants each -FB group-400members
As the adult educators and leaders of the organizations in third sector we are aware of what people who work in third sector struggle with.Burn out is a result of cumulating unreacted stress in long term,which shows its consequences in physiology,emotions,relations with others etc.It touches many stages of life,in the way that the person who suffers on it,at first does not realize the real reason behind those negative changes.It all results in worse well-being and health problems.As commonly known-it’s important,and better to prevent than to cure.In order to be able to bring help for others,it’s important to know how to take care of yourself.As those who work in 3rd sector,often,we are not able to say”no”putting someone’s needs on first place,because the need of bringing help to others seems to be more important.That’s why,in our project it was important for us to learn from each other the practices how to recognize the symptoms of burn out, how to deal with them when they appear and how to prevent - for adult educators, adult workers, the organizations, support staff, employees, members, volunteers as well as other organizations from third sectod who took part in the workshops and could learn such practices as well.
Burn out is a result of cumulating unreacted stress in the long term, which shows its consequences in physiology, emotions, relations with others etc.It touches many stages of life, in the way that the person who suffers from it, at first does not realize the real reason behind those negative changes. It all results in worse well-being and health problems. Some of the consequences are: willingness to be isolated, worse relations with others,no interest in previous hobbies, problems with dealing with emotions, worse efficiency and effectiveness, losing the joy of work and daily activities, problems with concentrating, memory, creative thinking. The stress and pressure connected with social engagement results in losing the motivation and power to work and de facto to change the world into better place-this what for people working in3rd sector has the highest value.“Burn out” becomes more often a topic under the discussion-mostly in business, still not in3rd sector. Aim is to emphasize that burn out is a common problem, and also has high space in3rd sector touching people like youth workers, leaders of NGOs, activists, educators etc. All involved organizations work for local, national or international well-being,solving problems of youth and other groups. Many times forgetting about themselves, and their own well-being.As commonly known-it’s important and better to prevent than to cure. The organizations involved in project implementation have great experience in working in the third sector–as organizations and/or people who create those organizations. Spending many years on working for others.In order to be able to bring help to others, it’s important to know how to take care of yourself. Current data say that it’s common to change the workplace after2-4years of working.The same data shows that more and more often it’s recommended to change their professions after some years of working.It’s recommended to do so,in order to avoid the feeling of burn out,in order to overcome the feeling. The project focuses on exchanging good practices between the partners on the topic of social burnout to increase the knowledge and awareness about the symptoms – how to recognize them, what are they and how to manage with social burn out. There will be organized three Joint Staff Trainings, each of them will be focused on different objectives: the attitude at work (to be able to assure yourself with inner harmony), assertiveness etc; the ETS Competence Model due to which we will be working on chosen competences in order to minimalize the risk of social burn out; and learning new methods to overcome the problem by mindfulness, yoga, meditation, alternative medicine and get back to the previous harmony in order to be able to provide other actions in the third sector without the need of changing the profession. The path of learning from each other is structured. Nowadays the topic of social burnout exists but it is underestimated. The scale is much higher than we have the data about, and it is important to be able to prevent from extending the scale of the problem and be able to cure when it exists. Those are the main aims to which the project is a response.