“Resilience in Activism: Self-Care and Active Hope” is an educational project aimed at youth workers engaged in eco-social activism, governance, and international solidarity, who are interested in acquiring tools for self-care and resilience within the context of political action. It is intended for youth workers who want to expand their knowledge of emotional management, strengthen community bonds, and promote the physical and psycho-emotional well-being of the young people they work with. The project is based on: The book Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, a guide that combines activism and spirituality to foster commitment to the Earth’s health and planetary change through the development of consciousness. The methodology The Work That Reconnects – The Spiral (WTR), developed by Joanna Macy. It aims to strengthen resilience and active commitment toward ecosocial transformation. It is grounded in key teachings such as systems thinking, deep ecology, deep time, spiritual traditions, and the dismantling of oppression. It proposes four stages of implementation: gratitude, honoring our pain for the world, seeing with new eyes, and going forth. During the training, participants will explore participatory methodologies for dialogue based on nonviolent communication, embodiment and somatic practices for self and group regulation, as well as expressive arts resources to foster emotional resilience and self-care in activism. The objectives are: - To share practices of community care and resilience that strengthen collective support and the capacity to face challenges together. - To enhance emotional resilience and promote self-care practices among young activists, changemakers, and those who accompany processes of social transformation. - To introduce and share well-being, resilience, and self-regulation methods, based on expressive arts, the Work That Reconnects (WTR), and practices inspired by the Active Hope framework. - To promote transnational support networks where youth workers and activists can exchange practices of care, solidarity, and long-term sustainability. - To share tools for nervous system regulation, expressive arts, co-regulation, participatory methodologies, and embodied approaches to “living learning.” - To promote forms of activism that are caring, restorative, and respectful of rest, boundaries, and self-care. - To encourage mutual learning by highlighting different geopolitical realities and forging a community network that promotes freedom of expression, universal rights, and the health of the ecosystems we inhabit. We propose a theoretical-practical approach that establishes the conceptual foundations and enables an experiential integration of the core themes of this project. This training course is cooperative and transdisciplinary in nature, exploring central themes from multiple disciplines and methods, with the aim of giving voice to all participants and generating new approaches.