Keep Calm - Tools for mental wellbeing

Young people in today's society face many challenges and stress factors. High expectations at school and at home, competition and the pressure of social networks to be perfect have a significant impact on their mental well-being.

This training course is created to promote mental hygiene and mental wellbeing in everyday life. From a young age, we are taught that maintaining physical health and practising basic daily hygiene (shower, brush our teeth, wash our hands…) is important, but we are rarely taught to look after our mental wellbeing as if maintaining emotional balance and a mature management of our thoughts would be innate to everyone.

The aim of this training course is to help youth workers to develop a toolkit to promote self-care, self-expression, foster a sense of belonging and community, and physical activity, all areas that are key to fostering positive attitudes towards mental well-being.

In addition, these practices contribute to the positive personal development of the participants by strengthening their self-esteem, creating more trust and more bonds between young people, and promoting the inclusion of young people suffering from emotional distress.

The aim of our activity is to give youth workers tools to help them address the mental well-being of the young people they work with. Acquiring new pedagogical competences will enable them to:

- respond better to the needs of their target group

- improve the impact of their daily work

- increase the attractiveness, reach and quality of their programmes

In attachment you can find provisional program.