⌂ - Projects organized by East-West-East Germany;

✈︎ - Projects East-West-East Germany participated in.

12 youth and social workers, project managers, trainers, and teachers from Germany and Turkey took part in the "Resilience and Wellbeing of You(th)" training course. They gathered together to expand the awareness on mental health topics by experiencing different methodologies like Nonviolent Communication, Mindfulness, Lewis Deep Democracy, Experiential learning and some coaching tools. Each of the participants found many useful tools and techniques to apply in their actual practice.

More: youthlearning.eu

Then, a very interesting kind of meditation was organized – the "Guided Chakra Meditation". This guided meditation is being done to rebalance our system and restore all corners of our body. 

We paused for a moment to give ourselves an opportunity to reflect and #BeOneWithNature. "Forestbathing" proved to significantly improve mood, give a sense of peace, calmness, balance, and provides in general benefit both for emotional well-being and overall health.

Then, everyone returned indoors to learn about Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and other Positive Psychology Interventions. This session led the participants to gain knowledge to better strategies for managing mental illness, correcting negative behaviours, and increase happiness and productivity.

And to wind up, participants from 8 different countries (and over 15+ nationalities) sit around their self-made bonfire and enjoyed the flickering light from the fire, crackling sounds of the burning wood, and the warmth of being together.

More: https://www.facebook.com/MOVE2BU

Much work has been done to raise awareness about mental health and mental disorders, but there is still so much more to go. For this program, we diverted it to a more interesting way – “Film making”. This activity was directed towards breaking mental health stigma and let the participants understand mental health issues more deeply.

ANGER & FEAR

It’s ok to be not ok, we’re all not ok, some less than others but we all need empathy and we can all become better than ourselves with the help of others. There’s no shame in seeking support and the bravest word is “help”.

ANXIETY & STRESS 

How are you feeling lately? Maybe there is something you have been thinking so much? or something you already went through and want to share but feel shy? We want you to know that you are not alone🤗

Spread your own Mental-Morphosis!☀️

If you wish to be a part of it, you can share your story about how you have faced your anxiety or overcome your stressful situation on your social media account. Remember to add our hashtags #letitflyout #mentalmorphosis #embraceyourself to make it reachable by others who might need some inspiration.

As the participants of the project "Mental Health in Youth Work" hosted by "Move to be you" we are very glad to share our experience with you❤️

#movetobeyou #ErasmusPlus #mentalhealth #youthwork #stress #anxiety #wellbeing #health #socialwork #inclusion #socialinclusion #community #migrants #gesundheit #mindfulness #achtsamkeit #psychology

During the training we looked at different aspects of disability, inclusion and integration; principles of communication with people with and without special needs; examples (successful and not so successful) of multilevel groups. This training provided a space for dialogue and exchange of experience between participants from Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland.

The programme included the following topics:

• understanding inclusion and disability;
• dealing with fears and barriers in communication within an inclusive group;
• practical cases for organising inclusive projects and activities;
• social project design and development of own social project;
• reflective practices.

The knowledge acquired at the course was shared with the members of the organisation.

The training course “GameInc: Developing Inclusive Games for Diverse Groups of Players” aimed to develop educational games and adapt them for an inclusive group. Under the guidance of experienced trainers, participants learned practical tools for the development of educational games and their adaptation for different groups of young people (regular and multilevel).

Training objectives:

1. To introduce participants to the principles of organising inclusive work with young people and to provide a safe space and support for participants to develop educational games and to adapt them to an inclusive group;
2. To introduce participants to the principles of play-based learning and gamification;
3. To introduce participants to the values, principles and methods of non-formal education;
4. Introduce participants to methods and tools of game design for creating educational games;
5. To develop and test a set of 5 educational game concepts to be used in inclusive work with young people.

The training course was intensive and included 4 practical sessions of 90 minutes a day, as well as time for individual and team reflection in the evenings. The programme included the following topics:

1. understanding inclusion and disability,
2. fears and barriers in communication within an inclusive group,
3. practical cases of organizing inclusive projects and activities,
4. principles of educational games and gamification,
5. game design,
6. reflective practices,
7. working on own educational games (in teams).

More about the project implementation you can read in the blog of the project (in Russian): gameincnarva.blogspot.com/

On the 2nd of October 2021 one of the games created during the training course “GameInc: Developing Inclusive Games for Diverse Groups of Players” was tested by the members of EWE and the valuable feedback was shared! The participants also have learned more about inclusion and game dynamics. 

Game is a powerful learning tool, which our organisation values and our youth workers use in a non-formal learning format of the youth work we do.

Fore more info on the project, see above.

At "Digital Facilitation Bootcamp" we explored the following topics:

• non-formal and participative learning in virtual settings;

• facilitating groups and creating communities virtually;

• group dynamics and team engagement online;

• enabling the power of the "digital crowd" in a positive way;

• integration of virtual youth exchange into the existing programmes of youth organisations.

More information about the project: http://youthlearning.eu

We believe that young people should have a platform to discuss the concept of “freedom of expression” as a human right and also a responsibility of every individual. We offered an open space to talk about it at different angles.

The 6 weeks long course consisted of...

◉ 6 workshops and talks with the professional journalists

◉ self-learning interactive content between the sessions in Telegram

The topic-highlights:

• The main concepts of media literacy and critical thinking;
• The concept of freedom of expression as a basic human right;
• Mechanisms of work of current media and its functions on the example of Radio Hagen;
• Mass Media Influence and Censorship

• The politicisation of TikTok