Non-formal education (NFE) plays a key role in supporting young people’s learning, participation, and wellbeing across Europe. As youth work continues to respond to increasingly complex social realities, there is a growing need to innovate not only what is offered to young people, but how learning processes are facilitated. This places new demands on youth workers to continuously adapt their methodologies, remain reflective, and avoid relying on fixed or over-standardised practices. Youth organisations across Europe are increasingly expected to deliver high-quality, innovative non-formal education activities while responding to diverse and evolving needs of young people. Many participating organisations already apply experiential and embodied approaches in their work, yet face challenges related to maintaining methodological freshness, ethical clarity, and adaptability over time. Youth workers often report repeating approaches that are effective but no longer stimulate learning in the same way, both for themselves and for the young people they work with. Without targeted professional development for experienced staff, organisations risk relying on a limited set of familiar practices, which can reduce innovation, responsiveness to participants’ needs and long-term impact. The project Layers responds to this challenge by addressing innovation in non-formal education through the lens of embodiment. Embodiment is chosen as a methodological field because it directly engages learning through experience, awareness, and relational processes, making it particularly sensitive to issues of habit, presence, and adaptability. Rather than introducing embodiment as a set of techniques, the project uses it as a medium to explore how innovation in NFE can emerge through exposure to diverse facilitation logics and reflective translation into practice. Layers is designed as a professional development activity for experienced youth workers, creating a structured learning environment where participants encounter multiple embodied perspectives. These encounters are built around reflection, ethics, and adapting to context, rather than learning fixed methods. Through these, the project indirectly benefits young people through safer learning environments, more responsive group processes and youth workers who are better equipped to work with complexity and diversity. The international mix of the group strengthens innovation by allowing practices to be shared and adapted across different cultural and organisational contexts. The objectives of the project are to: • strengthen the capacity of experienced youth workers to innovate their non-formal education practice • support renewal of facilitation approaches by working with embodiment as an experiential and reflective methodology • increase participants’ ability to critically assess and adapt methods rather than replicate them • foster ethical, inclusive, and context-sensitive facilitation in non-formal education settings • enhance the quality and sustainability of youth work across Europe through reflective professional development