🇳🇴 Youth Workers Retreat: Art, Culture & Wellbeing
🎨 A Creative Seminar for Mental Health & Youth Work
📍 Koppang, Norway
📅 17–22 September 2025
🕒 Application Deadline: 25 May 2025
🔗 Apply Now

🌟 WHAT IS IT?
A unique 6-day international seminar for youth workers, trainers, and wellbeing professionals designed to explore the use of art, culture, and creative expression to support mental health and wellbeing in youth work.

Through hands-on workshops, peer-led sharing sessions, and immersive nature-based experiences, participants will gain practical tools and inspiration to bring back to their communities — all while living together in a traditional Norwegian farmhouse.

💬 LEARN & EXPLORE:
✅ Artistic & theatre-based approaches for youth mental health
✅ Group facilitation and creative wellbeing tools
✅ Peer-to-peer learning and intercultural exchange
✅ Local culture, markets, and farm life in rural Norway
✅ Self-care practices for youth professionals

🏠 WHERE YOU'LL STAY:
You’ll co-live with a group of 15 changemakers in a traditional Norwegian farmhouse, surrounded by forests and rivers 🌲🏡. The seminar is a temporary community where everyone cooks, learns, and grows together.

🍽️ What’s Included:

  • 6 days / 5 nights accommodation
  • 3 meals per day + snacks ☕
  • All materials and creative sessions
  • Informal cultural trips
    💸 Contribution: €700 per person (self-funded)

🎯 WHO CAN APPLY?
Open to youth workers, facilitators, and wellbeing mentors from:
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🌍 Also open to partner and other countries worldwide (including 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇰🇪 🇪🇬 🇲🇦 and more)

🧩 IDEAL PARTICIPANT PROFILE:

  • Passionate about mental health and creativity
  • Experience working with youth in educational or therapeutic settings
  • Curious to exchange artistic and wellbeing practices
  • Committed to building inclusive, mindful communities
  • Able to cover the self-funded contribution

📢 ORGANIZED BY:
🟡 Yellow vs. Blue – A youth-led NGO rooted in mental health advocacy through creativity
🎨 Known for their art therapy projects, storybooks, youth exchanges & well-being retreats

📬 Questions?
Contact: Shrouk Hussien
📧 yellowvsblues@gmail.com

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