🇸🇮 Erasmus+ Training Course in Slovenia 🌿 Leader in Me: Regenerative Leadership Through Dragon Dreaming at Farm Veles 🐉

Leadership is not taught here. It is remembered. Leader in Me is an Erasmus+ training course held at Farm Veles — a permaculture farm in a small village in southeastern Slovenia — designed around the living framework of Dragon Dreaming. For 8 days, participants will step into an immersive, nature-based journey of personal and collective leadership, experiential learning, and genuine community living.

🏡 About Farm Veles

Zavod Veles is a social permaculture farm in Svinjsko, Slovenia, co-created and lived in for 15 years by one of the trainers. Renovated by countless volunteers, it is a simple and pleasant place where permaculture elements support a sustainable community initiative. Sessions take place entirely outdoors. There are no shops nearby, mobile signal is weak, and WiFi is available only in certain spots. The farm uses dry composting toilets and solar showers.

⚠️ This is a drug-free and alcohol-free training environment. Silence is an important element of the space and is expected to be respected.

🐉 The Dragon Dreaming Framework

The entire training is structured around Dragon Dreaming — a regenerative project design methodology built on four phases lived daily:

🌙 Dreaming — listening to what wants to emerge

📋 Planning — shaping visions with clarity and care

🛠️ Doing — bringing ideas into embodied action

🎉 Celebrating — honouring the journey and its people and place

Guided by the three core ethics and a win-win culture, participants explore how leadership can become regenerative, inclusive, and deeply human.

📋 What Awaits You

🌲 Experiential learning through nature and community

🛠️ Non-formal education tools and practices

🧘 Spaces for reflection, expression, and embodiment

🌿 Moments of silence, movement, and deep connection

🧭 Exploration of leadership as both an inner and collective journey

🧑‍🏫 The Training Team

Jošt Kozelj — visionary, project manager, and founder of sustainable educational initiatives. Graduated permaculture designer and teacher, Dragon Dreaming Trainer, CLIPS Trainer, and Virtual Coach.

Petra Jazbec — educator, permaculture teacher, Dragon Dreaming trainer, and co-founder of Farm Veles. Fifteen years of community living on the farm. Specialises in social permaculture, community life, project design, and sustainability facilitation.

🏕️ Accommodation and Food

🛏️ Accommodation in shared tents — participants may bring their own tent for more privacy. Mats and extra blankets provided. Sleeping bag welcome but not mandatory

🥗 Vegetarian meals prepared by cooks on site. Special diets accommodated where possible — note this in the application form

🚿 Dry composting toilets and solar showers

🔄 Follow-Up Training

This training is part of a two-part journey. A follow-up course — Art of Facilitation — will take place 10–19 November 2026 with the same trainers. Participants are warmly invited to consider walking both paths.

✅ This Journey Is For You If

🌱 You feel a call to grow as a leader or youth worker

🌿 You long to reconnect with yourself through nature

💡 You seek experience, not just theory

🚀 You are willing to step beyond your comfort zone

🛠️ You wish to explore non-formal education tools

💪 You are ready to commit fully to the process and the group

🍂 You feel openness to walk both the August and November paths

⚠️ Community living is part of the culture — participants work together as one organism to support the running of the project.

⚠️ Do not use AI to fill in the application form. The organisers explicitly ask for authentic, personal responses.

👤 Participant Profile

Open to youth workers aged 18+ with a communicative level of English. The training will be held entirely in English. If you are from a country not listed among the partner countries but are genuinely eager to participate, complete the application form — the team will try to find a partner organisation to support you.

🌍 Eligible Countries

🇮🇹 Italy 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇷🇴 Romania 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇪🇸 Spain 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany

📅 Activity Dates

🛬 Arrival: 11 August 2026

🗓️ Training days: 12 — 19 August 2026

🛫 Departure: 20 August 2026

📍 Farm Veles, Svinjsko, Slovenia

⏰ Deadline

29 May 2026

📬 How to Apply

📝 Application Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9vD4WB4xug_ocY2ZCavZ4n95eLGq7nlXPJm3pinttXq7tAw/viewform

📎 Infopack: https://shorturl.at/WcQyz

📧 projectsveles@gmail.com

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