HEART
Outdoor experiential education and artistic approaches for helping professionals, supporting resilience and work engagement.
Holistic Experiential Education and Artistic Approaches for Resilience and Work Engagement Tools for Adult Educators
What is HEART?
HEART is an Erasmus+ KA2 project to increase the quality of adult education and training by developing adult educators competences, awareness and knowledge linked to work engagement.
The project uses a new training method – the synergy of outdoor experiential education and art methodologies – and aims to create a more committed, engaging and professional environment inside organisations.
Why is it important?
The burnout within helping professions – including educators – has been known since decades, and by now a solid research and practical intervention basis exists linked to it. However, burnout continues to be a severe issue until today.
According to our experience drawn from previous projects and activities, educators, their organisations and managers lack knowledge and awareness of the burnout syndrome and its potential prevention techniques.
Timely interventions are essential to prevent burnout, otherwise its later stages would involve physical, emotional and mental exhaustion from which it is difficult to recover.
To tackle above issues, a transnational partnership composed of 6 partners from 5 countries developed the HEART project.
How is it designed?
HEART innovative methodology:
- based on transnational, holistic and positive approach,
- creates synergy of outdoor experiential education and artistic methods.
HEART results for educators and their organizations
- Collection of Easy to Learn and Use Work Engagement Tools and Processes, including a self-directed learning portfolio.
- Combined Modular Work Engagement Curricula – training scheme to offer innovative educational material at individual, personal and professional level.
- Organizational Work Engagement Recommendations that offer managers alternatives at organizational level.
- Assessment Report summarizing the impact of the methodology.
HEART period: 2018-2022
HEART elements
3
field training courses of different methodologies
5
field tests of combined methodologies
1
discussion workshop
2
dissemination events
Who is it for?
For everyone interested in or affected by the topic, but most of all for professionals in helping professions across Europe and the institutions behind them.
HEART Tools & Mandala
The tools and mandala practices created during the project support resilience, self-reflection, and the development of work engagement.
HEART Partners
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