Youth in contemporary societies find it difficult to explore and remain in their true authentic nature. Dominant systems are creating static structures for people to focus mainly on cognitive skills and materialistic & individualistic expressions of success. In most current educational environments young people are shaped towards fitting into this system. The social life in the modern world is based on competition and hierarchy thus the youngsters’ identity, beliefs, relationships and lifestyles are under stress and pressured in order to fit into these patterns. Through this project we aimed to achive the empowerment of youth workers with advanced competences in healthy lifestyles, mindfulness and emotional intelligence, enabling them to effectively address the needs of their target groups. By creating a series of activities that focused on mindfulness and healthy lifestyles, reinforcing the interconnectedness of mind, body, and emotions, and fostering a reconnection with nature, our aim was to provide support for the personal and professional growth of participating youth workers and young leaders. Therefore this training course aimed to gather 27 youth workers from 7 countries with experience of work in the field of personal and social integration of young people. The working team created a space and conditions where the gain of basic tools of mindfulness were awaiting participants of the “reCONNECT YOUth – Mindfulness tools in youth work” programme. The specific objectives of the training course were: - To equip youth workers and leaders from Program and EECA Partner countries with the competencies to foster deeper self-reflection and self-expression activities to be used with their target groups - To promote healthy and environmentally conscious behavior among participants with the use of mindfulness and naturebased methods to be afterwards applied in their workplaces - To strengthen body-mind-emotion interconnectedness as a holistic approach of health and wellbeing by giving participants stress-resistance and emotional intelligence tools - To form a network among like-minded organisations and develop follow-up projects within the project topic