📌 Project Type: Erasmus+ Training Course
📅 Activity Dates: 14 – 22 November 2025
📅 Application Deadline: 21 September 2025
📍 Venue: Smolnik, Slovenia
👥 Participants: Youth workers (18+) open to embodied practices, movement, and self-exploration
🌐 Eligible Countries: 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇪🇸 Spain
📖 Project Description
The Desert – Somatic Compass of Resilience is a unique 7-day Erasmus+ Training Course that invites participants into the symbolic desert: a space of stillness, uncertainty, and renewal.
Through somatic practices, ecopsychology, and movement, participants will explore how to navigate transitional life phases and discover resilience, creativity, and grounding.
Key elements of the training:
- 🌿 Somatics & Movement → explore stillness, touch, improvisation & body awareness
- 🌍 Ecopsychology → desert as a mirror for inner transformation
- 🎭 Creative expression → guided imagery, symbolic exploration & storytelling
- 🌀 Systemic work → perceive personal transitions as part of wider cultural & ecological systems
- 💡 Practical skills → tools to hold safe, reflective spaces in youth work & education contexts
This course is designed for those who want to deepen their facilitation skills and grow personally while exploring resilience through embodied, experiential learning.
🔗 More info: Infopack
🏠 Accommodation & Meals
- 🏡 Accommodation provided in Smolnik, Slovenia
- 🍴 Meals included for the entire duration of the training
- 🚍 Travel reimbursement according to Erasmus+ rules
🎓 Learning Opportunities
- 🧭 Gain practical tools for navigating uncertainty & transitions
- 🌱 Strengthen resilience, empathy & self-awareness
- 🤝 Learn to create safe, embodied spaces in youth work
- 🎭 Experience 6 hours of daily movement practices (somatics, contact improvisation)
- 🏅 Receive a Youthpass certificate recognizing your competences
👤 Participant Profile
We are looking for youth workers (18+) who are:
- 🌍 From France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, or Spain
- 🌀 Open to movement, somatic practices, and physical activities (6h daily)
- 👐 Comfortable with touch as part of learning (contact improvisation principles)
- 💡 Curious about ecopsychology, resilience & creative facilitation
- ✨ Ready for an intensive, reflective, and transformative experience
👉 Please note: This is not psychotherapy, but a non-formal educational training.
🔗 Application Info
Apply via the official application form:
👉 Application Form
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