Origo Workshop

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible ” Virginia Satír

The Origó Műhely/Origo Workshop was founded in 2021 summer as a registered Nonprofit LTD.
organization, however many of its original members had already been developing and testing mental health and related non-formal (online and offline) methods for more than 10-15 years.The aim of the workshop/organization is to create space and time for well-being, recreation and resilience building for young people and for their youth workers, psychologists, social workers, teachers, youth leaders. Its ars poetica is to find inner balance, healthy relationships in life and in purpose (work), run sustainable life, and the ability to resource oneself and others. The need of the establishment came from the covid pandemic and its impacts on youth, on youth with fewer opportunities and their supporters- youth workers, social workers, psychologists. The prolonged emergency situation caused an increased level of exhaustion, anxiety and in loss of professional and personal motivation. Nowadays the environmental (global warming trends) and human crises (wars, pandemia, economic ) along with the “hustle culture” creates an increasing need for finding healthy relationships with oneself with others and with the natural surroundings we live in.
The founders of OM aimed to create projects which support various youth target groups and their supporters: youth workers, youth leaders, young role models, social workers, teachers, psychologists, trainers and their communities, organizations to increase their holistic (personal and work life and natural environment) well-being.
Beneath that our thematic approach is to provide a space for mental health professionals: organizations, trainers, researchers, youth workers, youth leaders at European level, policy and decision makers delivering a transfer of knowledge and collaboration through non-formal educational programs.
With activities like:
connects youth and social workers, methods and ideas from across the resilience spectrum with the common aim of championing and improving individual and organizational mental health and resilience by promoting open communication, sharing best practice and extending EU networks, knowledge and learning.
works to provide an informed and influential voice on all aspects of resilience and mental health such as environmental sustainability resulting in local, national and EU level policy recommendations
acts as a hub, which brings together ideas, information and resources from the many organizations and experts that support and promote mental health, resilience, sustainability offering non-formal educational development opportunities for youth workers and their target groups
collects and provides materials for education, research and development of well-being and resilience of the young generations
promotes sustainability and longevity of community work - to ensure a safe planet for the future youth generations: environmental sustainability scope along with healthy living
The methods used come from various sources of non-formal education:
coaching, mentoring, outdoor experiential learning, online learning, environmental education and biology, art and movement expression, basic psychoeducational tools, cultural mediation, storytelling on resilience and burnout, oriental movement techniques for healthy lifestyles.

https://www.theorigoworkshop.com/