🇧🇬🎨🤝 Erasmus+ Training Course in Bulgaria – Art of Building Communities (ABC) 🌍✨ Art-Based Community Building for Youth Workers & Facilitators 🇧🇬

About the Training Course
Art of Building Communities (ABC) is an international Erasmus+ Training Course designed for youth workers, facilitators, educators, NGO members, and community builders (18+) who want to explore how communities are consciously and unconsciously created, sustained, and transformed.

In a world of fragmentation, burnout, and short-term projects, ABC focuses on building healthy, nourishing, and resilient communities. The training approaches communities not just as functional structures, but as living systems shaped by relationships, emotions, rituals, shared meaning, and power dynamics.

What Is This Training About?
🤝 Understanding how communities emerge, grow, and sometimes get stuck
🎭 Exploring community life through art-based learning
🧠 Becoming aware of conscious and unconscious community design
🌱 Learning how to support belonging, trust, and shared purpose
🔥 Working with tensions, resistance, conflict, and transformation

Core Methodology
The training is grounded in experiential, non-formal education, where learning happens through direct experience and reflection.

🎨 Art-based & expressive methods
• movement, music, theatre
• visual arts, poetry, storytelling
• sound, ritual, symbols

🧘 Somatic & body-based approaches
• body awareness
• regulation and presence

💬 Dialogue & communication
• elements of nonviolent communication
• feedback, boundaries, and consent

🛡️ Learning Environment
• trauma-informed & safer space
• inclusiveness, consent, authenticity
• honest engagement and responsibility

What Will You Gain?
🧠 Awareness & Mindset
• understanding group dynamics and power structures
• sensitivity to unspoken needs and invisible hierarchies
• reflection on leadership, responsibility, and influence

🛠️ Skills & Tools
• practical art-based tools for belonging and trust
• working with rituals, transitions, and community culture
• methods to address blockages, tension, and conflict

🌍 Application & Impact
• ability to consciously design and care for communities
• strengthen existing communities and support new ones
• clear pathways to apply learning in NGOs, youth work, and local contexts

Who Is This For?
👤 Youth workers & youth leaders
👥 Facilitators, trainers, educators
🏢 NGO members & coordinators
🌱 Community organizers & initiators
🎂 Aged 18+
💡 Motivated to reflect on their role within communities

Eligible Countries
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇪🇸 Spain
🇵🇱 Poland
🇬🇷 Greece

Location
📍 Stolat, Bulgaria 🇧🇬

Activity Dates
📅 10–16 March 2026
(Arrival: 9 March · Departure: 17 March)

Participation Conditions
💸 Erasmus+ funded
✈️ Travel, 🍽️ food & 🏠 accommodation covered
🗣️ Working language: English
👥 Participants: 24 youth workers (18+)

Application Form
https://forms.gle/H8ZNmCYZMPq65nQf6

Infopack
https://tinyurl.com/abcinfopack

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