Through RePlay - The training we aimed to support the youth workers of our partner organizations in their professional development. We wanted to do this by creating a unique experience-based learning event that allowed us to work with basic facilitation techniques and elements. From this approach, our participants had the opportunity to experience first-hand our working method while playing and experimenting with it. The circumstances of the pandemic brought quite some challenges for our field of work as well - various projects were postponed and many freelance educators had to find other career paths to make ends meet. At the same time, during our exchanges, we kept meeting talented young people who wanted to work with groups and who were eager to create an impact in their local communities, but they lacked the resources and the know-how. Based on these needs and observations, we decided that it was time to develop a new branch within our project line - a basic training for facilitators. While working on our exchange series during the previous years (Level UP, Game ON, RePlay, and Over the (H)edge), we kept bumping into the same question and request: how do we create such impactful, adventurous learning programs and is there a way we could share our knowledge and experience with others as well? After some thorough research in our network and the networks of our partners, we realized that this was the best moment for our initiative. Through this project, we wanted to create an impact on multiple levels: while offering step-by-step learning and engagement opportunities for our participants, we evoked a chain reaction - youth workers coming from our partner organizations got the chance to experience our unique working method while being trained in various basic facilitation techniques; our partner organizations received the know-how while having the opportunity to include young, talented and skilled people in their work (thus expanding their capacity); local communities, young people with various backgrounds had the chance to benefit from quality programs organized by our participants; more professionals were trained by these participants; other organizations received quality input from our partners all across Europe. While working/brainstorming with our partner organizations and their volunteers, we managed to create a program design that responded to their current situation and needs. Even though they seemed to be surrounded by young professionals (participants from previous projects, active volunteers) who showed a lot of interest, most of them shared the enthusiasm but lacked the capabilities to lead youth camps, exchanges, activities, and meetings with a long-lasting impact. They wanted to be engaged in the non-formal education sector but only a few of them had a clear idea of what non-formal education was actually about: how to create an experience and how to pull learnings out of this; how to map the needs of the target group and how to design a program based on these needs; how to facilitate the events (speaking in front of people, giving adequate instructions, making interventions, managing their state); how to use context as a learning frame; how to ensure that there is a long-term impact instead of one-time activities. This application was the result of our observations, conversations, and research done in the past couple of years (while working on our youth exchange series) and it aimed to bring innovation to the field of youth work. As we usually work with experience-based education, we wanted to follow the same path in our training event as well. Unlike many professional courses that tend to become theoretical and hardly connected to the everyday practice of our participants, we aimed to create an experience that could be replayed and reflected upon. We created a selection of activities very similar to the ones that we usually use in our exchanges, thus our participants had the opportunity to see and understand the effects of our working method before learning about it on a meta-level. To create a dynamic and insightful learning space, we used outdoor activities and games as non-formal education tools while connecting these to specific facilitation topics and elements. The objectives of the project were: - to bring together 40 youth workers from our partner organizations with the aim of supporting their professional development; - to offer basic facilitation tools and techniques through a unique learning experience so that they can create similar opportunities back home; - to improve the soft skills of these youth workers; - to broaden the experience of the involved organizations and to train their professionals; - to create a unique training design and to promote context-based education; - to create 20 local actions (two/partner) and 10 articles as a follow-up; - to evaluate the learning experience through 40 Youthpasses and questionnaires.