Mentoring Through Creativity

This 7-day training course (including travel days) will take place in Rimini, Italy, from February 09 to February 16, 2026, bringing together 22 youth workers from across Europe.
The program will offer an intercultural experience focused on creativity, encouraging participants to express themselves through artistic and innovative approaches, while exploring how creative thinking can inspire social change and foster collaboration.

Project Objectives: 

• Develop Creative Mentoring Competences:
  Enable participants to explore and practice creative mentoring methods to support young people’s personal growth and emotional expression.
• Strengthen Youth Workers’ Capacity to Create Safe and Inclusive Spaces:
  Provide tools to design mentoring environments that promote emotional safety, intercultural sensitivity, and accessibility for participants from diverse backgrounds.
• Promote Peer Learning and Exchange of Good Practices:
  Facilitate exchanges among youth workers from different contexts, allowing them to share mentoring experiences, challenges, and solutions.
• Foster Non violent Communication:
  Strengthen participants’ ability to use non violent communication to support young people in expressing personal challenges, and generating constructive solutions.
• Support Personal and Professional Development of Youth Workers:
  Provide a reflective environment where participants can analyse their mentoring style, increase self-awareness, and expand their creative facilitation toolkit.