🇨🇿 Erasmus+ Training Course in Czech Republic 🏔️ COMPASS — Adventure Education, Personal Resilience & Crisis Management in the Jeseníky Mountains 🏕️

🔑 Key Information

Activity ⭐️ Title

COMPASS

Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location

Training Course

5-14 June 2026 | Jeseníky mountains, Czechia, Czech Republic

❗️What Is This Training About?

COMPASS is an 8-day, digital-free training in the Jeseníky Mountains, Czechia. It uses Adventure Education—like trekking and canoeing—to build personal resilience, master crisis management, and combat professional burnout for youth workers.

ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity

COMPASS: The Core of Outdoor Mindful Practices for Adventurous and Sustainable Self

Dates: 5th – 14th June 2026

Location: Jeseníky Mountains, Czechia

COMPASS is an intensive, 8-day experiential training course designed to promote personal resilience and inner sustainability through Adventure Education and mental well-being. This is a digital-free, "off-the-grid" experience where participants will switch off their devices to reconnect with their senses and natural resources.

Target audience:

This offer is specifically targeted at youth workers, educators, mentors, NGO staff members, and leaders working in the field of non-formal learning who are looking to expand their professional toolkit. It is ideal for those motivated to re-engage passive youth, combat digital burnout, and lead with empathy.

Core activities & methodology:

The program follows a "learning by doing" approach, combining demanding physical challenges with deep, guided reflection. Key activities include:

Living on the move: Living in constant motion through the mountains, carrying essentials, and setting up camp in different natural settings each day.

Physical challenges: Trekking (mountain ascent), canoeing adventures, high ropes, and a symbolic firewalk.

Mindfulness & reflection: Guided debriefing, practical mindfulness, and creative mind-mapping to build crisis management skills.

Shared leadership: Managing a nomadic lifestyle together, from team budget planning to shared cooking and low-impact living.

Training goals:

1) Strengthen personal resilience: Building emotional and physical endurance to prevent professional burnout.

2) Master adventure education: Acquiring a professional toolkit to use adventure and nature as educational tools.

3) Crisis management: Learning to hold space for others and navigate professional or personal failures with compassion.

4) Celebrating diversity: Joining an international network to share best practices and celebrate personal uniqueness.

Practical Information:

Accommodation: Provided in tents; participants must bring their own sleeping bag and outdoor mat.

Zero-Waste lifestyle: The group practices zero-waste habits

Policy: No-drugs and no-alcohol policy applies throughout the entire training.

For a detailed breakdown of the 8-day program and the team of experienced trainers, please refer to the attached full information pack .

Training overview

This Training Course is

for 20 participants

from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries, Partner Countries Neighbouring the EU

and recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers, Volunteering mentors

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

Narana (Youth NGO)

https://narana.cz/

Narana is a community-focused non-governmental organization based in Hustopeče, Czechia, dedicated to sustainability, non-formal education, and social solidarity. The organization operates on the values of zero waste, empathic communication (Nonviolent Communication), and experiential learning.

Core Activities include:

Zero Waste Charity Shop: A local hub that promotes a circular economy by giving items a second life and using proceeds to support community needs

Youth Work & Education: Narana is highly active in the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps (ESC) programs, hosting international volunteers and organizing training courses (like COMPASS) for youth workers.

Community Building: They host workshops on topics such as homeschooling/unschooling, natural household practices, and respectful parenting.

Humanitarian Aid: The organization provides local material support and has actively coordinated aid for people affected by the war in Ukraine.In essence, Narana acts as a creative and supportive space where people can learn to live more mindfully and connect through meaningful shared experiences.

📥 Contact

Contact for questions:

Marija Wazi

E-Mail:

Phone: +420724519625

💶 Costs

Participation fee

60 EUR

Accommodation and food

All accommodation, meals and travel costs are covered as within KA1 E+ programme.

Travel reimbursement

Travel costs are covered as within KA1 E+ programme.

📜 Certificate

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

https://youthworkshub.org/15122