🇭🇷🧠💬🌱 Becoming a Safe Adult – A Deeply Transformative Erasmus+ Training Course in Croatia Focused on Emotional Awareness Regulation and Safer Youth Work Practices 🇭🇷

🌍 Project Overview
Becoming a Safe Adult is an Erasmus+ Training Course hosted in Croatia, designed for youth workers and professionals who actively work with young people and want to strengthen their capacity to act as emotionally aware, grounded and reliable adults. The training focuses on emotional awareness, regulation, relational safety and empowerment, supporting participants in creating safer and more empowering environments for themselves and for the young people they work with.
Through experiential and body-based learning methods, participants will explore their internal emotional states, learn to recognise emotional signals and strengthen personal stability as a foundation for quality youth work.

🧠 Main Learning Focus
💬 Understanding basic and complex emotions and their purpose
🧍 Body-based emotional awareness and recognising emotional signals
🎯 Introduction to Choice Theory and personal responsibility
🌊 Emotional regulation and nervous system balance
🤝 Co-regulation relational attunement and safety cues
🛑 Consent awareness and healthy boundary setting
🛡️ Empowerment self-defense for personal empowerment
🌱 Self-support as a foundation for supporting others
🧩 Trauma-informed perspectives in youth work
💡 Identifying personal strengths that contribute to safety and trust

🎓 Key Learning Outcomes
🧠 Increased knowledge of emotions and emotional awareness
🌊 Stronger emotional regulation and relational attunement skills
🌱 Improved personal stability and self-support capacities
🤝 Deeper understanding of what makes a safe and reliable adult in youth work
🛠️ Practical tools applicable in daily youth work practice

👥 Participant Profile
🌍 Experienced youth workers educators trainers teachers psychologists and social workers
🤝 Actively working with young people especially those with fewer opportunities
🧠 Motivated to deepen emotional awareness and personal responsibility
🌱 Ready to apply learning outcomes in daily professional practice

📍 Location
Fužine, Croatia

📅 Activity Dates
17 March 2026 to 24 March 2026

📌 Application Deadline
📅 Application Deadline: 20 January 2026

🔗 Application & Infopack
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14281

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