Toolbox — For Training and Youth Work
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Manual
Well-being in Youth Work: Training Curriculum
This curriculum focuses on learning, reflection, and practical tools that support wellbeing, mental health, and burnout prevention in youth work.
Aims of the tool
Building wellbeing skills: Better understand mental health and burnout in youth work, and explore practical ways to prevent stress and care for your own wellbeing in demanding professional
contexts.
Strengthening self-awareness: Strengthen your emotional intelligence and self-awareness, developing skills such as empathy, emotional regulation, mindfulness and self-care to improve
communication, relationships and resilience.
Practicing compassionate leadership: Experience embodied learning and compassionate leadership, and learn how to use them to create healthier, more supportive and inclusive working
environments.
Creating peer support: Build meaningful peer connections and support networks, and gain tools to create, sustain and monitor wellbeing-focused support systems in your organisation and
youth work community.
Description of the tool
This curriculum was originally designed as a complete training programme. However, you do not need to follow it from beginning to end.
Each session can also be used as a stand-alone workshop or adapted to fit your own context, group, and learning objectives.
Throughout the curriculum, you will find suggestions for activities, facilitation tips, reflection questions, and optional variations. Think of them as inspiration rather than fixed instructions. Feel free
to adapt the timing, methods, and materials to the needs of your participants and the resources you have available.
Each session begins with a short introduction explaining why the topic matters, drawing on the findings of the Be Well research, followed by an overview of what participants will experience during
the session. Some sessions also include additional articles, videos, or other resources if you would like to explore the topic in greater depth.
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Disclaimer
SALTO cannot be held responsible for the inappropriate use of these training tools. Always adapt training tools to your aims, context, target group and to your own skills! These tools have been used in a variety of formats and situations. Please notify SALTO should you know about the origin of or copyright on this tool.
Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/6067
This tool addresses
Personal Development
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
The tool was created by Roxana Turcu & Linda Ulane.
in the context of
Be well – Increasing quality in youth work by fostering wellbeing for youth workers’, 2024-2-RO01-KA220-YOU-000284804
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Ilona Olehlova (on 15 October 2026)
and last modified
14 October 2026
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