🇱🇻 Erasmus+ Training Course in Latvia 🧭 Life Compass — Personal Balance, Resilience & Well-Being Tools for Youth Workers 🌟

Overwhelmed. Out of balance. Searching for direction. These are not signs of weakness — they are the daily reality of many youth workers. Life Compass is a training course designed to help you reset, reflect, and realign — both personally and professionally — and then bring those tools back to the young people you work with.

Design Yourself is organising Life Compass — an Erasmus+ Training Course for 24 youth workers from six countries, taking place at Laumas Nature Park near Talsi, Latvia, from 6 to 12 August 2026.

⚠️ Please avoid AI-generated application answers — the organisers are looking for your authentic voice.

What Is This Training About?

Life Compass explores 8 key life areas through interactive workshops, reflection sessions, embodiment practices, and peer-to-peer learning. Together, participants co-create practical methods and contribute to a digital Life Compass handbook — tools they can take directly back to their organisations and communities.

The 8 Key Life Areas

💚 Health

💭 Emotions

🤝 Relationships

🌍 Social Life

💼 Work & Career

💰 Financial Life

🧠 Personality & Inner Resources

🌟 Life Vision

Objectives

🛡️ Strengthen youth workers' resilience, growth mindset, and personal well-being

⚖️ Equip participants with practical tools to balance the eight key life areas and prevent burnout

🧒 Improve competences in supporting young people's self-awareness, emotional well-being, and goal-setting

📖 Co-create and transfer the Life Compass methodology for long-term use in youth work across partner organisations

Daily Programme

🟢 Day 1 — Opening: Introduction to Life Compass, group building, group agreements, Youthpass, and the 1st area — My Health & Fitness

🔴 Day 2 — Emotional & Relationship Balance: 2nd area — My Emotions / 3rd area — My Relationships — reflection exercises

🟠 Day 3 — Social & Professional Balance: 4th area — My Social Life / 5th area — My Work & Career — breathwork, embodiment, and guided reflection

🔵 Day 4 — Personal & Financial Balance: 6th area — My Personality / 7th area — My Financial Life — group exercises and practical tools development

🟡 Day 5 — From Learning to Practice: 8th area — My Life Vision — participant-led workshop design, method development in small groups, integration

🟢 Day 6 — Study Visit & Open Workshops: Study visit to Tukums Youth Centre — participant-led parallel workshops — peer feedback and facilitation practice

🔴 Day 7 — Reflection & Future Steps: Life Compass handbook completion, personal action planning, Youthpass reflection, follow-up planning, final evaluation, and closing ceremony

Who Should Apply?

🔹 Youth workers from Greece, France, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and the Netherlands — 4 per country, 24 in total

🔹 Professionals working with young people in NGOs, schools, youth centres, coaching, and similar settings

🔹 Actively supporting young people's personal development, well-being, and participation

🔹 Age: 22 and above

🔹 Able to communicate and work in English

🔹 Motivated to strengthen their resilience and improve the quality of youth work

🔹 Fully committed to all phases — preparation, training course, and follow-up activity

🔹 Committed to applying and sharing Life Compass tools in their organisations and local communities

Follow-Up After the Project

Within 6 weeks of returning home, each participant organises a follow-up activity — a workshop, school session, or activity with colleagues — ensuring the methods reach young people, educators, and the wider community.

⚠️ Completion of the follow-up activity is part of your commitment and is linked to travel reimbursement.

The Venue — Laumas Nature Park, Talsi

A unique location in Latvia known for its forest trails, meadows, bird-watching trails, and well-equipped workshop spaces — combining indoor learning with outdoor activities. Located near Talsi, approximately 120 km from Riga (about 2.5 hours by public transport).

🛏️ Shared rooms for 2 to 4 people — some with private bathrooms, others with shared facilities

🥗 Mostly vegetarian meals — meat served 2 to 3 times per week

🌿 Participants share responsibility for common areas throughout the programme

Travel Reimbursement

🇬🇷 Greece: €395 (flight)

🇳🇱 Netherlands: €309 (flight)

🇷🇴 Romania: €309 (flight)

🇫🇷 France: €309 (flight)

🇵🇱 Poland: €309 (flight) / €417 (green travel — encouraged)

🇱🇻 Latvia: €28 (green travel)

⚠️ Do not book tickets before receiving approval from the hosting organisation. Only previously approved travel costs will be reimbursed.

Reimbursement processed after: submitting all travel documents, completing the EU online evaluation form, and organising and reporting on a local follow-up activity.

💬 Want to understand how Erasmus+ Training Courses work and what to expect before, during, and after? This complete guide covers everything you need: https://youthworkshub.org/15096/