The main objective was to make the contents, tools and methodologies developed in a previous project available to a wider audience via a user-friendly eLearning platform to foster emotional literacy and resilience for people in distress. The project’s target groups were adult education professionals, such as mentors, coaches, trainers and teachers, educators as well as social professionals, including social workers, psychologists, sociologists, social educators, social service providers in formal, non-formal and informal learning. Since many professional and their clients in the target group were not used to use distance learning and digitalized content the Re-Empathy put great efforts into designing the learning environment into an easily accessible platform with highly motivational courses, including games, short quizzes and tests, intuitive to use with the final target group. Through training and empowering the professionals and providing free access to tools and methodologies they can then motivate and empower adults in distress to cope and adapt to changes and uncertainties through personal and social learning processes and competence development to foster resilience. This objective has been achieved and will keep going on.
Resilience and empathy are key protector factors in a world of uncertainty and changing contexts, caused by pandemics, wars, economic crises, rapid digitalizing and urbanization and other disruptions. These sudden disruptions in society lead to more and social problems, such as stress and depression, obesity, environment-related diseases and addictive behavior. New social problems keep emerging. In situations of vulnerability, it is important to empower people to fight for their rights and remain socially included. Learning skills and methods to cope with unexpected emergencies and to cope with problems is the way forward. The Re-Empathy learning program, methods and tools contribute to promote emotional literacy and resilience for people in distress making them more capable to face crises and disrupted events. The online learning environments also enhance digital skills and encourage also people in remote area to use innovative tools to communicate with other people in the similar life situation or with similar job functions. The Re-Empathy training program was demonstrated with teacher, trainers, mentors, coaches and with people and distress in Denmark, Italy, and Portugal and other participants from EU countries.