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Erasmus+ TC "Becoming a safe adult"
Training Course
17-24 March 2026 | Fužine, Croatia
The training is designed to strengthen participants’ capacity to be grounded, emotionally aware, and relationally attuned adults who can create safe, empowering environments for themselves and for the young people they support. Through experiential and body-based methods, participants will learn to recognise their internal states and understand emotional signals. By strengthening their personal capacities, they will be able to act as safer and more reliable adults for the young people they support.
TOPICS THIS TRAINING COURSE WILL COVER:
- Emotions & Emotional Awareness
- Introduction to emotions: basic and complex emotions
- Understanding the purpose of emotions
- Developing awareness of feelings in the body (body-based emotional awareness)
Choice Theory
- Basic introduction to Choice Theory and its relevance for personal responsibility and behaviour
Emotional Regulation & Co-regulation
- Understanding emotional regulation as returning the nervous system to balance
- Co-regulation: attunement, relational safety cues
Consent & Boundaries
- Developing awareness of personal boundaries
- Practicing boundary-setting skills
- Empowerment self-defense practice for personal empowerment
Self-Support
- Self-support as a prerequisite for supporting others
- Identifying and strengthening personal sources of support
- Safety & Supporting Others
Exploring personal patterns in supporting others
- Recognising the importance of being a “safe person” in youth work
- Identifying personal strengths that contribute to safety and support
- Introduction to a trauma-informed approach in youth work
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of the training, participants will:
- increase their knowledge of emotions and emotional awareness, including recognising
- internal states and emotional signals
- understand the importance of emotional regulation and relational attunement in
- creating safe and empowering environments
- strengthen their personal capacities for stability and self-support
- increase understanding of what makes a safe and reliable adult in youth work
WHO CAN APPLY
Becoming a Safe Adult is a training course primarily aimed at more experienced youth workers, educators, trainers, teachers, and youth group leaders who wish to improve their work with young people, particularly with young people with fewer opportunities and young people in need.
If this description fits you and you are actively working with young people, please apply using the application form link on the first page of Infopack.
Participants will be selected based on their experience in youth work, motivation for the topic of the course, and the sustainability of the results, including how they plan to apply the learning outcomes in their daily work. Please provide a detailed description in the application form.
You can find more infromation in attached Infopack, so as application link on first page!
Application deadline is 20.1.2026. until 23.59!
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Your kind of training?
Apply now! Application deadline (24h UTC): 20 January 2026 Date of selection: 27 January 2026Training overview
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14281
This Training Course is
for 25 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Teachers, psychologists, social workers, youth workers, social pedagogiest
Working language(s):
english
Udruga Amazonas (Youth NGO)
Amazonas Association was registered in Zagreb in 2004.
Our vision is an open, playful, and solidarty society. Our values are inclusiveness, optimism, and change. Our activities are based on the implementation of programs and projects aimed at educating, empowering, and increasing the quality of life of children, youth, and adults in the local community.
We have three main areas of work:
1. Social support - empowering children, youngsters, and families at risk of social exclusion
2. Active and mobile youth - non-formal learning of young people, including mobility projects
3. Education of experts - training courses as well as development of education materials for in-field youth and social support.
Through our work we are very much movement-based based and we use capoeira as well as various sport and movement forms, as a tool to reach positive psychosicial change.
Find out more at our website:
https://amazonas.hr/contact/?lang=en
Contact for questions:
Ivona
E-Mail:
Phone: 00385 95 358 6580
Costs
Participation fee
There is no participation fee.
Accommodation and food
Amazonas Association will cover the organizational, accommodation, and food costs.
Travel reimbursement
Fužine is a village and a municipality located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, 10 km away from the coast and 30 km away from the city of Rijeka. It is situated at 722 meters above sea level while being surrounded by mountains and three large artificial accumulation lakes.
For more information on this beautiful area please visit FUŽINE TOURIST BOARD.
HOW TO REACH:
There are frequent buses to Fužine from both Zagreb (capital) and Rijeka.
Travel costs will be reimbursed according to Erasmus+ distance calculator, depending on your place of origin (in the country of your sending organization).