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DREAMING THE WORLD TO COME - Ecological Consciousness and Human Development for Youth Workers
Training Course
1-10 September 2026 | Gudevitsa village, Bulgaria
DREAMING THE WORLD TO COME is an international Erasmus + program aimed at people who are, or strive to become, agents of cultural (r)evolution and social transformation. Humans who, with their daily actions, are models in their community and leaders of the awakening and change in the world.
METHODOLOGY
With methods that include, and go beyond ecopsychology, we will connect with ourselves, each other and with the other-than-human and more-than-human world.
We will work with Bill Plotkin’s Nature-based Map of the Human Psyche, discovering and cultivating our four facets of wholeness:
- North – Heart-Centered Thinking, Nurturing, and Generating
- East – Compassion, Full-presence Sensing, Lightness, Play, and Wisdom
- South – Full-bodied emotions, Belonging and Life Energy
- West – Romance, Deep Imagination and Dreams
This training course is highly experiential, emotionally engaging, and nature-based.
Practices include:
- movement
- solo time in nature
- conversation across species borders
- sensorial awakening
- council
- dreamwork
- deep imagery
- embodiment
- journaling
WHY THIS MATTERS
As youthworkers, we can give only what we have. The quality of accompaniment we can offer young people is directly connected to our own aliveness, authenticity and relationship to life. If we feel depleted, hopeless and disconnected, how can we accompany and inspire the young people who are growing up in these times?
Therefore, cultivating our own humanness and capacity, tending to our grief, our anger, our fear is essential.
Finding hope, purpose and belonging is essential. This is the main aim of DREAMING THE WORLD TO COME.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
This course is for you if you:
- actively work with young people
- are open to experiential learning
- are curious about imagination and ecological belonging
- are willing to engage personally
- are comfortable with emotional depth and reflection
- want to reconnect with your longing and aliveness
Participants must be over 18 years and have a good level of English as the entire course will be in English.
Please read carefully the detailed Call for participants for more information about the Commitments, Logistics, Venue and Administration!
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Your kind of training?
Apply now! Application deadline (24h UTC): 20 June 2026 Date of selection: 30 June 2026Training overview
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14882
This Training Course is
for 20 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches
Working language(s):
English
Learning for Change Foundation (Others)
“Learning for Change” Foundation was established in 2016 by experts in the field of education, training and project activities. The main motivation of the team of the organization is to provide learning and transformational opportunities for youth. The experts and professionals behind the organization work actively together in the field of Youth work designing and offering activities in different areas: personal development, motivation, youth projects and volunteering, interactive teaching and environmental education, adventure programs based on the methods of experiential learning and outdoor education, sustainability, responsible consumption, spiritual intelligence, training design, anti-globalization, social change and Environmental rights.
Our shared values are: solidarity, social justice, the right for education and training, mutual cooperation, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, public and personal responsibility, peace and sustainable development.
MISSION: To support young people in the search of their true life purpose by raising personal awareness, connection to nature, and building sustainable core values.
VISION: To live in a value-driven society that provides opportunities for natural growth and personal development through one’s unique talents as an integral part of the global eco-system.
Two main areas of work of Learning for Change are:
1. Ecocentric (soul-oriented) personal development – developmental psychological concept facilitating holistic personal growth;
2. Nature-based experiential learning – reconnection with Nature (inner and outer) using outdoor education and learning by doing in wilderness settings;
Contact for questions:
Galena Tsvetkova
E-Mail:
Phone: +359 888 566 655
Costs
Participation fee
In order to make this training possible to the quality standard that we deliver, we need some extra income aside from the European grant that we got. For this we invite participants to contribute to the expenses with a participation fee. We have set a sliding scale from 50 to 150€. You will be free to choose your contribution according to your own personal financial possibilities and the value you see in this 8 days training program.
Non-paying spots are available if even the lower end of the sliding scale is beyond your needs.
Accommodation and food
The project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, thus all the activities, accommodation, and food are 100% covered by the EU grant.
Travel reimbursement
The travel costs will be reimbursed to the participants after the course in the amounts limit according the Erasmus + regulations. The maximum reimbursement rates will follow the distance band calculator from the European Commission:
Travel Standard Green
distance travel travel
10 – 99 km 28 EUR 56 EUR
100 – 499 km 211 EUR 285 EUR
500 – 1999 km 309 EUR 417 EUR
2000 – 2999 km 395 EUR 535 EUR
3000 – 3999 km 580 EUR 785 EUR
4000 – 7999 km 1188 EUR