Outdoor Odyssey: Journey Through Nature's Lessons

It’s a training on outdoor education for educators

You will discover outdoor education specifically as a tool for improving mental health and develop Your competencies to apply newly gained knowledge in practice especially in relation to supporting mental health among youth as a way to address the challenges of nowadays.

Objectives:

• discover outdoor and experiential learning, types of outdoor education activities
• identify the stress factors which influence youth workers in partner countries
• equip participants with the theoretical knowledge on key pillars of mental health and reflect on its incorporation in participants’ lives
• to give the participants an opportunity to directly experience various outdoor methods and techniques in order to improve their mental health and connection with nature
• to raise participants’ awareness of appreciation for nature through learning values in outdoor education
• reflect on ways of incorporating these methods and techniques into their daily work with youth for stress- management including young people with fewer opportunities
• to train youth workers in using stress-management tools in youth work in different contexts
• develop participants competences in designing, planning, implementing and evaluating outdoor and experiential learning activities for mental health

Participants:

• Background: youth workers and educators working with young people from different backgrounds
• Should be 18 years old or over
• Should be able to communicate in English
• Should take part in the whole period of the training course
• Should be ready to promote activities in own community after the training course ends

Selected participants are in charge of organising a local event, at least for 10 participants (seminar, workshop etc) for own community within 2 months after the training course comes to an end

Selected participants are in charge of dissemination and visibility activities of the project.