🇵🇱🌿🧠 Erasmus+ Training Course in Poland – Mindful Connections: Training of Youth Workers for Wellbeing, Mental Health & Digital Balance ✨🤝 Sustainable Youth Work & Inner Balance 🇵🇱

🌟 Opportunity Overview
Mindful Connections is an Erasmus+ Training Course taking place in Milówka, Poland 🇵🇱. It is designed for youth workers, educators, trainers, youth leaders, youth coaches, and project coordinators who want to integrate wellbeing practices, mental health awareness, and digital balance into their daily youth work.

In today’s fast-paced and hyperconnected world, many youth professionals experience burnout, stress, and digital overload. This project creates a safe, reflective, and supportive international space to slow down, recharge, reconnect with oneself, and build more sustainable ways of working and living.

🎯 Objectives of the Training
🧠 Raise awareness about mental health and emotional wellbeing in youth work
🌿 Introduce practical tools for stress management, self-care, and burnout prevention
📵 Promote digital wellbeing and conscious use of technology
🤝 Strengthen international networking among youth professionals
🚀 Inspire future Erasmus+ projects focused on wellbeing, resilience, and mental health education

🛠️ Methods & Activities
🧘 Mindfulness sessions and body-based practices
📵 Digital detox retreat elements, reconnecting with nature and inner balance
💬 Sharing circles exploring emotions, boundaries, and communication
🎨 Creative and art-based activities for reflection and wellbeing
👥 Peer learning and skill-sharing sessions on mental health support in youth work
🤝 Networking & partnership labs to co-create Erasmus+ project ideas
🗺️ Action planning for implementing wellbeing and digital detox practices at home

🎓 Key Learnings & Outcomes
🌱 Personal wellbeing strategies and tools to prevent burnout
🧠 Practical methods for facilitating mental health activities with young people
📵 First-hand experience of digital detox and modelling digital balance
🌍 Improved interpersonal and intercultural communication
🤝 New partnerships and co-created Erasmus+ project concepts
📝 A clear personal and professional action plan for sustainable wellbeing

👤 Who Can Participate?
✔️ Youth workers, trainers, educators, youth leaders, youth coaches, project managers
✔️ Experience in non-formal education
✔️ Interest in wellbeing, mental health, and digital balance
✔️ Motivation to develop future Erasmus+ projects
✔️ Open to reflective, experiential, and peer-learning approaches

🌍 Eligible Applicant Countries
🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇨🇾 Cyprus, 🇨🇿 Czech Republic, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇷🇸 Serbia, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇹🇷 Türkiye, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia

📅 Activity Dates
10 January 2026 – 16 January 2026

⏳ Application Deadline
📅 Application Deadline: 31 December 2025 (24h UTC)

💶 Costs & Financial Conditions
💳 No participation fee
🏠 Accommodation and food fully covered
✈️ Travel costs reimbursed according to Erasmus+ distance bands
📜 Youthpass certificate provided

📘 Info Pack
https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/european-training-calendar/download/salto%5Ctrainingcalendar%5Cmodel%5CDownload-10546/MindfulConnections-infopack.pdf

📩 Application Link
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14244

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