The main aim of the project was to enrich social workers, mainly adult mentors/educators with the tools to tackle burnout, to keep their motivation and to stay at work instead of falling sick or going back to NEET. To reach the aim we set following objectives: -increase capacity of social workers toward using anti burnout practices and providing practices to the groups that they mentor; - measure impact of the mindfulness/well-being practices on the adult educators/mentors and adults who participated in the programmes; - create a pool of mindfulness/well-being instructors in the adult non formal education field; - raise awareness about burnout in social work and its threats as well as importance to equip the educators/mentors with tools. NOTE that based on the evaluators feedback the objectives were clarified to be applicable to adult sector.
Partner organisations working in the social work field have noticed a huge decline of motivation among their staff - adult social workers. This decrease is affecting not only quality of work, but also the organisation per se, the clients and most importantly, the social workers who often fall sick or drop off work. To prevent that, new tools are needed. The project focused on exchanging good practices between the partners on the topic of social burnout to increase the knowledge and awareness about the symptoms. The project aim was to educate people who work in social work in methods which help to overcome the problem of burnout. By implementing the project we aimed at supporting managing staff of social workers, social workers themselves, educational leaders and support staff, provided them knowledge about problem of burnout and tools to overcome it/guide prevention, provide healthy workplace for their employees and colleagues. The tools which we learnt and provided further for employees of social work sector was an investment in their work, its quality, efficiency and internal willingness to concentrate the actions in social sector. This helped to assure proper quality and efficiency of education, training and social work system.