🇨🇿 Erasmus+ Training Course in Czechia 🏔️ Adventure Education, Personal Resilience & Digital-Free Youth Work 🔥

Eight days. No phone. No fixed address. Just mountains, a river, a firewalk, and a group of youth workers learning what resilience actually feels like — from the inside.

Narana is organising COMPASS — The Core of Outdoor Mindful Practices for Adventurous and Sustainable Self— an intensive, 8-day digital-free training course taking place in the Jeseníky Mountains and the Morava River, Czechia, from 5 to 14 June 2026. Designed for 22 youth workers and educators from 11 countries, this is an off-the-grid experience that combines demanding physical challenges with deep guided reflection — all in service of one goal: building the kind of inner resilience that prevents burnout and makes better youth workers.

What Is This Training About?

COMPASS is built on Adventure Education — the idea that trekking up a mountain, navigating a river by canoe, and walking through fire are not just physical experiences. They are mirrors. They show you how you lead, how you hold space for others, how you respond to failure, and how you recover. The training follows a learning by doing approach throughout — every challenge is followed by structured reflection, and every reflection feeds into the next challenge.

This is also a zero-waste, no-alcohol, no-drugs, digital-free experience. Devices are switched off. Participants live in constant motion through the mountains, setting up camp in different natural settings each day.

Training Goals

🧠 Strengthening personal resilience and inner sustainability — building emotional and physical endurance to prevent professional burnout

🏕️ Mastering adventure education and crisis management — acquiring a professional toolkit to use nature as an educational environment

🌍 Celebrating human diversity and personal uniqueness — joining an international network to share best practices across cultures

Programme — Day by Day

📅 Day 1–2: COMPASS Tuning — Adventure Education principles, comfort zone stretching, shared learning goals, community building, and the Lost Compass Challenge

📅 Day 3: Resilience in Motion — Mountain ascent, emotional backpack exercise, trek debriefing

📅 Day 4: Wisdom & Teamwork — Sensory scavenger hunt, creative nature activities, mind mapping reflection

📅 Day 5: Trust & Silence — High ropes adventure, labyrinth of trust, silence of the fire

📅 Day 6: Leadership & Water — Canoeing adventure, river of change, leadership reflection

📅 Day 7: Courage & Transformation — River of judgement, firewalk challenge, courage circle

📅 Day 8: Action & Farewell — Local follow-up design, project evaluation, new community celebration

The Training Team

👩‍🏫 Marija — personal development trainer with 16 years of experience, PhD in the field, specialised in outdoor experiential learning and empathic communication. Lives off-grid with her family.

🏔️ Wasabi — mountain expert and group safety lead, specialised in connecting people and keeping spirits high after long days of hiking.

🌲 Vlastimil — outdoor trainer and mountain guide, specialised in sustainable construction, wilderness leadership, and zero-waste living.

Who Should Apply?

🔹 Age: Older than 22 — no upper age limit

🔹 Residency: Registered inhabitant of Czechia, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Georgia, Spain, or Cyprus

🔹 A youth worker, educator, mentor, NGO staff member, or leader looking to expand their professional toolkit

🔹 Ready to stay offline in a natural environment and committed to practising resilience and inner sustainability

🔹 Physically and mentally ready for an intensive 8-day outdoor programme

🔹 Willing to live, learn, play, and explore in a multicultural, off-the-grid setting

🔹 Able to work in English and motivated to participate actively from start to finish

⚠️ Full participation is mandatory — late arrivals and early departures are not permitted.

⚠️ No drugs and no alcohol policy applies throughout the entire training, including free time.

The Nomadic COMPASS Experience

🏕️ Living on the move — carrying essentials and setting up camp in different natural settings each day through the Jeseníky Mountains

💧 Off-the-grid sustainability — filtered spring water, cooking on open fires or gas stoves, zero-waste habits throughout

🎒 Tent life — accommodation in tents. Participants must bring their own sleeping bag and outdoor sleeping mat

🍳 Outdoor cooking as teamwork — the group receives a team budget and plans meals together. Each small team has an outdoor cooking set. Everyday tasks become opportunities for empathic communication and creative problem-solving

💬 Curious about how Erasmus+ training courses work and what participants are expected to do?This complete guide covers all the essentials before you apply: https://youthworkshub.org/15096/

Costs

💶 Participation fee: €60 per person — paid upon arrival. If you cannot afford the fee, contact the organisers to discuss individual arrangements

🍽️ Accommodation, food, materials, and programme costs fully covered through the Erasmus+ programme

✈️ Travel reimbursement covered up to the maximum allowed Erasmus+ amount based on distance between your home city and the venue

🎓 Youthpass Certificate provided upon completion

Contact

👤 Marija Wazi — Narana

📧 narana.my@gmail.com

📞 +420 724 519 625

🌐 www.narana.cz

Training Details

📅 Activity Dates: 05 June 2026 – 14 June 2026 (Arrival: 5 June 4–6pm / Departure: 14 June 8–10am)

📍 Location: Jeseníky Mountains, Czechia

👤 Activity Type: Training Course

🏷️ Training overview: http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14760

📋 Date of selection: 22 May 2026

Deadline

⏰ 21 May 2026

Eligible Countries

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

Partner Countries Neighbouring the EU: 🇦🇱 Albania 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇦🇲 Armenia 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇧🇾 Belarus 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇬🇪 Georgia 🇮🇱 Israel 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇽🇰 Kosovo 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇱🇾 Libya 🇲🇩 Moldova 🇲🇪 Montenegro 🇲🇦 Morocco 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇷🇺 Russia 🇸🇾 Syria 🇹🇳 Tunisia 🇺🇦 Ukraine

Apply

🔗 http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14760

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