With Embodied Eco-life, what we wanted was to give youth workers the tools and confidence to help young people connect with regenerative ways of living. We kept seeing the same gap: youth workers wanted to run nature-based, embodied projects with their groups, but they didn't have access to training or experiences beyond what was already happening in their own communities. So that became our starting point: how do we open that up for them? The project's philosophy leans heavily on Otto Scharmer's work on Theory U. He has this line that stuck with us: "the intervention is only as good as the internal climate of the intervener." That idea shaped everything: we weren't just trying to teach skills, we wanted to help youth workers shift from a more individualistic way of thinking toward a collective one, so that they'd naturally care more about their communities, the people around them, and the wider world. From there, we built the project around five objectives: Helping youth workers become changemakers. We wanted to build up their leadership and facilitation abilities so they could make a real difference, locally, but also regionally, nationally, and beyond. Through non-formal and informal learning, we focused on giving them the civic, social, and project management skills they'd need to actually guide young people well, not just in theory. Bringing embodied learning into their everyday work. This was about going beyond the purely cognitive side of learning. We wanted youth workers to start weaving embodied practices into both their personal lives and their professional work, testing out approaches that help people self-regulate and that make space for real, experience-based learning, not just talking about it. Building stronger networks and more resilient communities. We wanted to connect youth workers across borders, creating an international network grounded in shared values: tolerance, collaboration, resilience. The idea was that a more connected, culturally diverse community would be more capable of supporting its members long-term. Encouraging peer-to-peer learning around regeneration. We wanted a space where people could swap knowledge, tools, and best practices around sustainability and systemic change. The hope was that this would feed back into their home organizations, expanding what their wider youth work systems are capable of. Sharing what eco-community living actually looks like. Finally, we wanted participants to experience eco-community living first-hand, not just read about it. Seeing real examples up close was meant to build their environmental awareness and green skills, and give them models they could realistically adapt back home. In the end, all of this was about closing the gap in regenerative knowledge and practice, helping youth workers build the kind of high-quality, grounded relationships with young people that today's challenges really call for.