Your Natural Element - Five Element Wisdom coaching with Chikung

Your Natural Element project aims to work with the Five Elements system and to bring its tools into your everyday life. It focuses on the maintenance and enhancement of your wellbeing and resilience along with the increased awareness of your best potentials. The understanding and application of the Five Elements supports your fulfillment with your youth groups by helping to discover their talents as well. This all happens through understanding the different qualities of the Five Elements represented in every area of life. The traditional Five Elements are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, which will be experienced through  practice of Chi Kung - often used as a basis in martial arts - and practical coaching techniques to apply it in your youth work.

Venue: Hungary - The Three Treasures Valley https://haromkincsvolgye.hu/en/homepage_eng_v02/

Target group of participants: youth workers, trainers, psychologists, social workers - openness to use unique oriental techniques in their youth work

More in detail:

Your Natural Element aims to address youth workers with risk of burnout and develop their ETS and digital competences through the 10 days residential learning activities and through the online extended mentoring and dissemination during the 12 month collaboration. Competence development ensured in many ways - 1 residential courses based on the Five Element coaching tools and martial art for well being are meant to serve and develop social- cognitive (ETS) and beyond that, a set of well being-skills essential to tackle burn out. By which our target groups are addressed due to their high stress youth and social work or due to the current pandemic. Aims are to support a) recognition of well being development reached at an individual and professional level thus building a positive self-confidence of youth workers and their young target groups; and b) recognition and visibility of positive influences of resilience within non-formal learning and youth work context in general. The competence development of youth workers will be resulted in a) personal resilience shields, that is a set of practices/guidelines they need to follow in their private/work life in order to ensure balanced life leading and for a prevention of burnout, b) 1,5 hours wellbeing workshop curriculum for youth workers as assignments best practice exchange and tool fairs on well being c) a complete learning cycle based ETS competence self-assessment d) various national and international dissemination events through online workshops g) 29 youth workers participating on a long-term blended learning event.

Here social inclusion as an important topic to address, it might sounds unique, but the target groups we are working with we define disadvantaged - youth workers who are at high risk of burnout ( working with youth of fewer opportunities as target groups - settlement, addiction, refugee background) or due to the increased stress that the current global pandemic puts on them. These youth workers are often not recognized in many ways: importance of their work, salary,- fluctuation rate is high.

They can immediately start the new tools in their private/work life that will uplift their mental/physical health and wellbeing in general. They also benefit in using new ways of non-formal learning such as online/blended learning.