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From Challenge to Connection
Trauma-Informed Youth Work – Insight of five-day training Youth workers, educators, and helping professionals are increasingly encountering young people who have experienced highly stressful or even traumatic life events. While youth work is not therapy, youth workers are often the first safe adult a young person turns to. A trauma-informed approach helps them create a…
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7th October is World Day for Children in Care
Sometimes it’s challenging to make a wise decision, for example, or to cope with disappointment or failure – I feel overwhelmed by bad feelings, I feel I can’t meet the challenges I face. Moreover, I’m an adult now and my brain is supposed to be ready to cope with my emotional upheavals. Children’s brains are…
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BASE!Camp: Why do we do it?
In order to become a healthy adult and develop the self-control necessary for social integration, a child must be able to safely experience independence, competence, playfulness, and spontaneity. Freedom to express one’s emotions, while being loved, cared for, touched, and trusted.
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Essence Plus experience
Essence+ is an Erasmus+ KA1 project which aims to bring together and share the essence of the experiences and good practices of the Academy of Experience over the last 16 years. It is a personal and professional development opportunity for the youth workers involved in the project. Maja’s experience with the Essence+ course: About the course: Intense,…
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What is WANDERLUST?
It is one of the two Erasmus+ KA1 projects of the Academy of Experience, focusing on well-being and mental health. We offer tools and exercises based on outdoor experiential education and artistic self-expression for development support professionals.
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BASE!Camp – A week of carefree childhood – behind the scenes
How can it be that a child cannot afford to be vulnerable, to talk about his fears?
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Parenting by connection – The “eureka” moment
Hand in Hand parentingQuality youth work by connection, listening There’s a lot of talk in the association lately about quality youth work through connection. So we decided to write a few lines about how this came about and why it is important for us. WE SHOULD START WITH THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON: YOU DON’T HAVE…
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