With the LTTC “The Journey Within” we aimed to let youth workers actively working with young people discover outdoor education and adventure based learning and develop their competencies to apply new gained knowledge in their practices especially in relation to empowering young people with fewer opportunities at local level. The main aim of this LTTC was to train youth workers on how to use outdoor education for addressing current challenges of nowadays and building so called soft competences and skills, such as respect, efficient communication, tolerance and understanding, non-judgment approach, ability to work in teams and critical thinking. It consisted of 2 residential training courses and a local phase in between: TC1 was implemented on 30 April - 08 May 2023 in Sazava, Czech Republic, TC2 was implemented on 23-30 September 2023 in Nagybörzsöny , Hungary. It involved educators: youth workers, teachers, trainers, youth leaders and activists – in total 57 participants from 10 countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Azerbaijan. The project was financed by Erasmus+ National Agency of Czech Republic. The applicant organisation is KURO Hradec Kralove. Objectives: -discover outdoor and experiential learning, their historical perspective, principles and models -articulate and reflect on participants’ own values base for outdoor and experiential learning -To give the participants an opportunity to directly experience various outdoor methods and techniques and reflect on ways of incorporating these methods and techniques into their daily youth work with young people including young people with fewer opportunities, young people from marginalized background, radicalized youth or with refugees -To raise understanding of the participants on outdoor methods and techniques in relation with active youth participation and fighting youth unemployment and encourage the participants to apply outdoor based learning in their practices -To support exchanging and sharing practices, experiences, methods and techniques of outdoor education across and increasing the quality of youth work in participants’ countries -develop participants’ reflexive skills and critical, innovative, creative thinking and challenging outdoor learning contexts and their application -develop participants’ competences in designing, planning, implementing and evaluating outdoor and experiential learning activities -understand and handle risk and safety in outdoor settings -To increase knowledge of the participants on Erasmus +, support creating new project ideas based on using outdoor methods and promote networking and cooperation