From Life Balance to Global Responsibility – Latvia

Aims & objectives

Objectives of the project:
– Increase awareness about Life Balance in the frame of Global Responsibility among youth workers
– Empower youth workers with tools, methods, and ways to understand Life Balance and Global Responsibility and act as multipliers on these issues
– Create a shift in youth minds from personal to Global Responsibility
– Create a platform for youth workers who work in the field of health and Life Balance, to exchange ideas and share teaching methods.
– Develop a guidebook for youth workers about Life Balance in the frame of Global Responsibility, which will contain knowledge, tools, resources, and material

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

The target group:
youth workers, social workers, group leaders, youth leaders, trainers, volunteers.
The background of our target group is those who: feel “overwhelmed” from the work, who have a need to understand better how to feel balance in their life and pass this knowledge within their organisations and young people they work with.

Training methods used & main activities

Main themes and methods used:
1) Healthy lifestyle principles: Mallow pyramid, wheel of life
2) Debate about Problems,which infects our way of living (stress, smoking, fast food, lack of money for a healthy food and others)
3) Role-Play: How to fight with problems that is unbalancing our life
4) Theater and Creative Presentation - Lifestyle, My life, How i see my life in future? Is that’s the way how I want to live?
5) Mind, Body, Soul - non-formal methods for balancing the 3 elements in our personal, professional life
6) World Balance Board game- role playing, elevator pitch, 6 Bono hat, debate
7) Debate about mission, passion, profession

Outcomes of the activity

Various non formal activities designed for this project are meant to leave a mark on the participants’ lives on a physical, psychological and mental level. Thus, participants by starting taking care about their personal Life Balance will move from the individual to society and the world, from local to Global. Practical knowledge they gain during this TC and exchange with other youth workers, they will significantly improve, motivation to work in the field of health, Life Balance, Global Responsibility, satisfaction of their work, sense of initiative and thus their future career perspectives.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Co-trainer - Training and facilitations for
the whole period of the implementation of the
training course "From Life Balance to Global
Responsibility" (8 full days trainer together with Vitalii Volodchenko)

I worked on this training for 8 days as a full time trainer.