Keep calm and no stress!

The project titled "Keep calm and no stress" raises the issue of the integration of people in society and with the people who surround them in the workplace. The project examines an important factor that disturbs people in most situations that are meeting them during their social development which is stress. Our goals are to make participants conscious of methods of integration into society, learn their ways of dealing with stress in different situations, with whom they have meet or will meet in the life and development of communication skills in a foreign language. The project predicts 18 participants in the age group of 16 - 26 years.

After integration during a variety of language games and integrating games, they will simulate situations of everyday life and of the most stressful events in the modern world. The next step will be to carry out classes for young people in schools by the participants on the topic which is how to fight stress.

During the project, participants will have the opportunity to try to solve its main problem by using techniques such as integration games, language games, discussions, improvised theater or producing their own custom theater scenes from everyday life (job interview, speech in front of a crowd etc.). In addition, they will learn how to prevent stress through daily use of the knowledge acquired during the workshop of tai-chi, yoga and meditation which will be carried out by a properly qualified person and with lectures and exercises with relaxation and anti-stress techniques.

Making workshop by articipants for youth who is not involved in the project will be a practical test of their new knowledge about effective relaxation and anti-stress techniques. The project participants will learn to recognize hypothetically stressful situations so they will be able to use some of the anti-stress techniques learned during the exchange before they are too stressed to work. They will also improve their English skills by talking with people of different nationalities.

Evaluation of the youth exchange will be based on a common project summary and video, in which participants, in the form of an interview, will speak about the project and about their changes during it. The film will be inspiration for people to fight with stress and problems of integration in everyday life. It will be published and promoted on popular social networking sites (eg. Facebook, YouTube, etc.)