Youth Workers Retreat: Art, Culture, and Wellbeing seminar in Koppang, Norway

The program is designed to explore and exchange artistic and creative methods that support mental health and wellbeing in youth work. Through a rich blend of guided sessions, creative workshops, and participant-led activities, you’ll learn practical tools and methodologies that can be adapted and implemented in your own communities and organizations through art and theatre.

The experience will also connect us with cultural life in Koppang, Norway and the community around. The seminar aims to foster creativity, self-awareness, and collective learning, while also understanding how communities work.

Beyond the structured learning, the seminar offers space for reflection, connection, and inspiration. We’ll share daily meals, spend time in nature, and engage in spontaneous moments of creativity. You’ll also experience the cultural heartbeat of the region through local farm visits, the weekend farmer’s market, and interactions with the surrounding community.

Evenings will be open for peer-led sessions where participants can showcase and exchange facilitation techniques, artistic approaches, or wellbeing practices. This ensures that the seminar is not only a place of learning but also one of contribution and co-creation.

This a temporary community of practice, a co-living seminar where creativity, self-awareness, and collective growth will be at the center for a better youth work quality in our communities, and more prepared facilitators to support young people with their mental health journey, but also to learn how to take care of yourself first, to be able to tranfer this to others.