🇱🇻 Erasmus+ Training Course in Latvia 🌲 Outdoor Leadership Resilience and Self Development 💪

Description

LEC (Love Every Challenge) is a personal development and leadership training for youth workers combining nature, embodiment, and teamwork. 5 days to step out of your comfort zone, grow resilience, and discover your inner strength.

LEC (Love Every Challenge) is a 5-day leadership and self-development training for youth workers, trainers, volunteers, and educators who want to deepen self-awareness, strengthen resilience, and bring new methods back into their youth work.

Working with young people can be rewarding — but also exhausting. Many youth workers feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about their next steps. LEC offers a space to pause, reflect, and recharge while also learning tools that can be applied directly in their personal life and non-formal education settings.

At the heart of LEC is the invitation to:

“Become a leader you wish to follow.” This means learning to lead from your values, cultivating emotional intelligence, and embodying the resilience and courage that you wish to inspire in others.

The training is based on the Swedish Value Based Leadership programme, enriched with synergy methods and our own 20 years of experience in experiential learning. We combine:

- Adventure & outdoors: stretching comfort zones, building trust, and exploring leadership through symbolic challenges in nature.

- Embodiment & community: movement, storytelling, role play, and sharing circles to explore emotions, values, and inner compass.

- Experience & reflection: learning by doing, then transferring insights into daily life and youth work practice.

Participants will:

- Develop personal resilience and self-leadership, essential in preventing burnout.

- Gain practical tools for group facilitation, reflection processes, and working with challenges.

- Strengthen their emotional intelligence and ability to support young people in transitions and difficulties.

- Join a community of youth workers from Latvia and other European countries, sharing experiences and building networks for future cooperation.

For the 20th time, Piedzīvojuma Gars invites you to this training in the Latvian countryside — far from distractions, close to nature, and surrounded by peers. More than 300 participants have already joined, many describing it as a turning point in both life and work.

When: 18 - 22 October 2026

Where: Rites countryside home, Latvia

Who: Youth workers, trainers, volunteers, educators, and others active in the youth field (18+)

PLEASE READ FULL DESCRIPTION here before applying: https://www.piedzivojumagars.lv/lec.html

Activity details

Activity type

Training Course

Activity dates

18-22 October 2026

Location

Rites, Latvia

Application deadline

Application deadline (24h UTC): 25 September 2026

Selection date

26 September 2026

Participants

16

Recommended for

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

Working language

english

Organiser

Costs

Participation fee

Fee: Sponsored for youth up to 25. Others contribute €150–250, based on possibilities.

Accommodation and food

There is participation contribution on scale 150-250 EUR. Accommodation and food is organized by us. You take care of your own travels to Riga (Latvia).

Travel reimbursement

We do not reimburse the travel costs.

Looking for participants from

36 countries can apply. The activity takes place in Rites, Latvia.