🌀🤍 Erasmus+ Training Course in Poland 🇵🇱 BE-IN Belonging Expression Identity Inclusion Exploring Safe Spaces Authenticity and Community in Youth Work 🇵🇱

BE-IN is an experiential Erasmus+ Training Course for youth workers focusing on identity, authentic expression, and real belonging. The training invites participants to explore how inner awareness, emotional presence, and embodied practices can create safer, more inclusive communities where participation becomes natural rather than forced. This is a personal and professional learning journey grounded in non-formal education, embodiment, and community living.

🗓️ Activity Dates
22–31 May 2026

🇵🇱 Location
Near Elbląg, northern Poland

🎯 What the Training Is About
🌀 Explore identity as a living, embodied experience
🤍 Practice authentic expression through voice, silence, emotions, and boundaries
🫂 Experience belonging as a shared field where difference is welcomed
🌱 Learn how safety and presence support inclusion and participation
🧭 Reflect on how community shapes identity and vice versa

🧩 Core Learning Pillars
🧠 Identity
Understanding identity as fluid, embodied, and shaped by stories, emotions, and awareness

🗣️ Expression
Developing courage, consent-based interaction, emotional communication, and boundary-setting

🫂 Belonging
Experiencing inclusive community spaces where participation arises from safety, not pressure

🎓 Learning Methods & Practices
🌿 Embodiment and body-awareness practices
🗨️ Emotional literacy and Nonviolent Communication inspired approaches
🌳 Nature-based learning
🤝 Community living and group reflection
🛠️ Transfer of learning into concrete youth work practice

👥 Who Can Apply
🧑 Youth workers, trainers, youth leaders, activists, volunteers
🎂 Aged 21+
🌍 Residents of Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Ukraine
🗣️ Able to work actively in English
🤝 Cooperating with an NGO or youth organisation
🧠 Curious about embodiment practices including consent-based touch

🌍 Participating Countries
🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, 🇨🇿 Czech Republic, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇺🇦 Ukraine

🚫 Important Framework
🚭 This project follows a sobriety policy
🧠 This is not a therapeutic setting
🤍 Participants are responsible for assessing their own emotional readiness

🏡 Accommodation & Practicalities
🌳 Community-based living in a natural setting
🍽️ Food and accommodation covered by Erasmus+
🚍 Travel costs reimbursed according to Erasmus+ rules

📌 Working Language
English

📅 Application Deadline
27 February 2026

📝 Application Form
https://forms.gle/jB6b67GuRw6bhZo16

📄 Infopack
https://tinyurl.com/BE-INtraining

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