🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
CREATIVE FRAMEWORKS FOR GUIDING YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH PERIODS OF TRANSITION & CHANGE
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Seminar
20-26 September 2026 | Ommen, Netherlands
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❗️What Is This Training About?
Join us for a 7-day seminar for youth workers who are guiding young people through periods of transition. We will exchange creative tools and methods.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
Online Module
August 24, 2026 | 18:00 – 20:00 CET
Zoom
Seminar
September 20-26, 2026 (excl. travel days)
Ommen, the Netherlands
Local Activities
October – December 2026
We are glad to invite you to join the seminar “Creative Frameworks”. This is a professional development space for youth workers and educators who are often guiding young people through periods of transition and change.
In their 20’s, young people are going through all kinds of transitions. This is when many young people are crafting their professional identities, growing careers, forming their first serious relationships, moving to new countries, and discovering who they are and who they want to become. How do we support them in those periods?
“Creative Frameworks” is a space where youth workers and educators from 7 European countries will gather for 7 days and exchange their best creative tools in working with young people in transition.
You will have the chance to learn new methodologies, practice & connect with like-minded colleagues from different European countries.
STRUCTURE
We will first meet online (24th of August). In 2 hours, our team will share with the participants in the seminar our framework on tranisition and we will discuss what are the transitions that we guide people through.
During the seminar, each organisation will share its best creative methodology for working with people in transition. We will exchange knowledge and inspiration, create new connections, and nurture our network.
After the seminar, each organisation will have 2 months to host a local event and disseminate the results of the seminar.
The organisations that are part of this project are:
Stichting EnvironMental – Netherlands
Association “Creatospere” – Bulgaria
Asociación Cultural ImpactArte – Spain
KALM International Trainings – Latvia
GROMADSKA ORGANISATSIA HARKIVSKA ASOTSIATSIA DLYA AKTIVNOY MOLODI STELLA – Ukraine
Cecropia Hub Amke – Greece
Ukrainischer Verein Mainz – Germany
LOCATION
The seminar will take place in the beautiful Dutch town Ommen (Netherlands). We will be hosted in the youth center house of the Olde Vechte Foundation, which is a home to dozens of trainings, youth exchanges and retreats every year.
The place allows you to connect to nature and be away from the noise of the city. Next to the house, there is a forest, where we could have daily walks and connection to nature. Near the house, there is also a river, where you can take a cold swim (if you are a fan).
The Location is very easy to reach and a 10-minute walk from the train station in Ommen.
You will be accommodated in shared rooms (2 or 3 persons per room). We will share common areas: co-working area, living room, cosy area, and dining area. Bathrooms and toilets are also shared.
The activities will take place in a spacious training room and also outside, if the weather allows.
More info: https://environ-mental.nl/creative-frameworks-for-guiding-young-people-through-periods-of-transition-change/
Training overview
This Seminar is
for 35 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, Youth researchers
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Stichting EnvironMental (Youth NGO)
Our organisation is designing learning experiences for educators and learning and development (L&D) professionals.
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Joanna Nikolova
E-Mail:
Phone: +359890521282
💶 Costs
Costs
Participation fee
no
Accommodation and food
covered by Erasmus
Travel reimbursement
Up to a specific limit
Please, check limits here: https://environ-mental.nl/creative-frameworks-for-guiding-young-people-through-periods-of-transition-change/
📜 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
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 6 August 2026
Date of selection: 15 August 2026
🔗 Official Link
🗂️ Documents
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