Based on our experience in youth work, working with various vulnerable, marginalized and other challenging target groups, applying Playback Theatre methods and tools, collaborating with different youth organizations, we can see the crucial need of working with the prevention of emotional burnout of youth workers and also supplying them with the practical innovative efficient methods and tools for the prevention of emotional burnout and for work with various vulnerable and challenging target groups. Our trainers are practical psychologists with more than 10 years of experience in youth work, also having a vast experience of practicing, performing and applying Playback Theatre for already more than 5 years, being certified playback practitioners, actors, trainers and supervisors. Playback is a social theatre based on emotional expression and play of the personal stories, where the participants can share their emotions and tell their personal stories as well as enact the emotions and personal stories of others. Overall, the Playback practice helps both the “actors” to feel their bodies, feel and express their emotions, deal with their own personal experiences and relive them, develop their emotional intelligence, flexibility and resilience – and the “tellers” to see their emotions, feelings, personal stories and experiences from aside, in this way, relive them safely, get relief from the accumulated emotions, gain insights, find new solutions, form new attitudes and discover new meanings. During the first part of the training, with the help of the Playback method and tools, we are going to work with the prevention of emotional burnout of youth workers, working with vulnerable, marginalized and other challenging target groups (such as refugees, migrants, minorities, youth with fewer opportunities and others). During the second part of the training, we are going to deliver the method and tools of the Playback to the youth workers in order for them to apply it in their follow up youth work with their target groups and local communities. During the third part of the training, the youth workers will create and develop their own local projects/ideas/initiatives aimed at work with their local communities with the help of the Playback method and tools. Also, during the TC, we plan to make several study visits to the local NGOs and theatres, who practice Playback and other social theatre methods and tools in their youth and social work, to exchange experience, learn from the best practices and get the method “at first hand”. The main needs of the participating organizations and youth work in general, tackled by this project, are the following: 1) Prevention of emotional burnout of youth workers, development of their mental flexibility, resilience and sustainability, support of their mental well-being; 2) Obtaining the innovative practical method and tools for the prevention of emotional burnout of youth workers and youth work with various vulnerable and challenging target groups; 3) Creating new projects’ ideas for the development of their local communities. The main objectives of the TC: - Raising emotional self-awareness, self-management, self-expression, broadening emotional spectrum and developing empathy and EQ in general; - Providing the tools and possibilities to express emotions naturally and ecologically; - Providing the tools and possibilities to relive the personal stories and experiences (especially traumatic ones) safely, see them from different angle and, therefore, gain insights, find new solutions, form new attitudes and discover new meanings; - Preventing emotional burnout; - Developing mental flexibility, resilience, sustainability and well-being; - Supplying the participating organizations and youth workers with the innovative practical method and tools for the prevention of emotional burnout of youth workers and youth work with various vulnerable, marginalized and challenging target groups; - Creating new projects’ ideas for the development of the local communities in participating countries, based on the Playback Theatre methodology; - Developing partnership and capacity building. Therefore, the TC will significantly increase the quality of youth work of participating organizations, bring innovations to youth work in general, and have a sustainable impact: 1) On the participating youth workers: through prevention of their emotional burnout, development of their mental flexibility, resilience and sustainability, support of their mental well-being; 2) On the participating organizations and youth work in general: through supplying them with the innovative practical method and tools of the Playback; 3) On the local communities in participating countries: through the main practical outcomes of the TC – created new projects’ ideas for the development of the local communities, based on the Playback Theatre methodology.