Operationalizing Experiential Learning is a semi-outdoor PDA bringing together 24 youth workers, Teachers, trainers & educators from 8 countries in Georgia during 11-19 June 2023, in order to share best youth-work practices and train them to use more effectively the principles of Experiential Learning and Outdoor Adventure Education in their daily work with young people. Operationalizing Experiential Learning aims to enhance the quality of youth work practice at the partner organizations by equipping participants with the agency to enrich their youth work practices via meaningfully integrating principles of Experiential Learning and Outdoor Adventure Education in their work. The project sets the following objectives: - To train youth workers at application of Experiential Learning principles to the non-formal learning and youth work practice, showcase quality experiential learning through Outdoor Adventure Education and engage participants at transferring this experience into their professional routine; - To improve participants’ basic hard skills and soft-competencies relevant for designing and implementing Outdoor Adventure Education programs & activities; - To build Inner Readiness of the participants to engage meaningfully with their target audiences, employ learner-centred and contextual approaches to their youth work curriculum and practice; - To share youth work & education practices and solidify stances at non-formal education by providing structured and facilitated framework for it; - To improve participants' basic soft skills such as adaptability, resilience, communication and leadership, relevant for and transferable to youth workers’ daily practices. - To promote Experiential Learning and Outdoor Adventure Education (OAE) as an effective, holistic learning methodologies in youth work and to commit the partner organizations to fine-tuning their youth work practice by applying the project outputs into action. - To introduce OAE as a healthy leisure habit for youth workers' well-being. (Especially relevant after COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects, such as over digitalization of study and work.) The program of the project will be based on the principles of Experiential Learning and OAE. Activities will be carried out with a practical approach, yet always framed with theoretical concepts and models in order to make the whole process more holistic and internalize the learning on different levels. (Cognitive, emotional, behavioural…) We intend to have 8 full working days, which includes several interrelated stages of training content logically built upon each-other.