🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
It's My Nature 2026
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
4-9 October 2026 | Woodstown, County Waterford, Ireland
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❗️What Is This Training About?
A Training Course for Youth Workers to Improve Skills and Knowledge through the Power of Participatory Theatre - Based on Creativity and Inner Leadership as Tools for Social Inclusion
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
The overall aim of the Training Course is to improve the self-awareness and self-confidence of Youth Workers from across Europe so that they can support the young people that they work with and can guide them in their learning process as full, authentic people. The Course participants will do this through the development of a learning toolkit which they can use with their own young people in their own countries after the Course.
This Training Course is targeted at applicants who are experienced (NB.minimum of 2 years experience, and preferably more - this Training Course is NOT for people with no or limted experience) at working in the areas of non-formal learning and youth work.
The main objectives are:
To support youth workers to become more aware of themselves, thus enabling them to make conscious choices and decisions that fit with the core of their identity and their goals in life
To dive deeper into, and really experience concepts such as resilience, confidence, vulnerability, empathy and creativity
To frame a learning process where youth workers feel commitment and inclusion by sharing and experience
To provide youth workers with tools to support a deep connection with young people they work with
To include local people with the effective method of Participatory Theatre and spread this around
To share tools and methods from across Europe, and to inspire the participants to implement similar learning processes after the Training Course for their own target groups
To reflect on their own learning process by using the Key Competences from the Youth Pass, and giving the opportunity for capacity building in the context of the Erasmus+ Program.
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 16 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Waterford and South Tipperary Community Youth Service (Youth NGO)
WSTCYS is a large Youth Work Organisation working with a wide range of young people aged between 10 and 24 in the south east of Ireland. We have an extensive network of European partners with whom we work regularly, and our aim is to provide young people with developmental opportunities through the Erasmus+ and ESC Programmes.
You can find out more about our organisation at https://wstcys.ie/
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Declan O Driscoll
E-Mail:
Phone: 00353863889723
💶 Costs
Participation fee
No
Accommodation and food
All accommodation and food will be provided by the organisers
Travel reimbursement
All travel costs will be reimbursed according to the rates and distances in the Programme Guide 2025.
Travel distance Green travel NonGreen travel 10 – 99 km 56 EUR 28 EUR 100 – 499 km 285 EUR 211 EUR 500 – 1999 km 417 EUR 309 EUR 2000 – 2999 km 535 EUR 395 EUR 3000 – 3999 km 785 EUR 580 EUR 4000 – 7999 km 1188 EUR 1188 EUR 8000 km or more 1735 EUR 1735 EUR
📜 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/what-is-youthpass
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 2 September 2026
Date of selection: 4 September 2026
🔗 Official Link
https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/european-training-calendar/training/it-s-my-nature-2026.15260/
🗂️ Documents
It's My Nature - Training Course (Woodstown, County Waterford, Ireland).pdf
⚠️ Important Notice
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