in association with JOETZ

Τίτλος : Training Course «Uncharted - The journey to self-discovery»

Τόπος : Gran Canaria, Spain

Ημερομηνίες : 19 έως 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2022

Συμμετέχοντες : 3 άτομα 18 έως 35 ετών

Συμμετοχή : 40 € (εφόσον επιλεγείτε)

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“UNCHARTED – The journey to selfdiscovery” is a Training Course designed as a journey into yourself with the purpose to discover lights and shadows inside you, empower your hidden resources of selfawareness, resilience, motivation, stress management and social and emotional skills.

The pandemic showed clearly, all over the world, how fragile we are without our “certain” life, role, routine, social contacts. The lockdown challenged all of us, youth especially, on the psychological level and we saw the impact on mental health with increasing rates of anxiety, depression, mental diseases. This Training offers a path of reflection on ourselves and a guide to self-empowerment and self-awareness, just like an answer to the fragility, pain and diseases we faced in these months, in order to build stronger selves for the future and to develop skills to support the youth we work with.

Participants will be guided on a journey to discover themselves by reconnecting with Nature, to express open and creatively, and by being invited to get out of their comfort zone to embrace Nature and being outdoors as a way to grow, for this, participant's openness and willingness to share will be needed for a heart-based positive transformation for the community. It’s an invitation for participants who are comfortable with spending a lot of time in the outdoors. We will provide authentic but comfortable accommodation in the nature. Many of the tools and methods are easily usable also with youth to work with them on emotional awareness and self-empowerment.

The frame of the Training is to be seen like a “hero’s journey”process, where each participant, like the Hero, will have a journey in 4 steps (self-awareness, confrontation, self-acceptance and integration) with many activities aiming to develop physical, emotional, spiritual and rational sides. The TC will have a ring composition: starting from a venue, being away for outdoor activities in 2 central days and coming back to the starting venue. The contact with nature will be a strong healing item in the project.

Methods:

- Nature-based activities
- Experiential Learning
- Creative expression
- Combination of individual processes in group dynamics
- Transactional Analysis
- Elements of Mindfulness
- Psychological topics

Participating countries: Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Bulgaria and Netherlands

Venue: We will stay in "Campamento El Garañón", a large camp-site in Tejeda, Gran Canaria, at an altitude of 1680m above sea level. You will sleep in basic wooden cabins without electricity and heating with 3-4 persons. You need to bring your own sleeping-bag and you will share the cabin. Throughout the campsite there are different buildings for showering and toilets. Food will be provided in the dining room of the campsite. It is very important to realize the accommodation is very BASIC and in the middle of NATURE During our Trekking Adventure, we will stay at a campsite in tents provided by the organisation and participants will have to cook for the group. Although we are in the Canary Islands, at this altitude it gets very COLD at night. It is important that you bring a warm sleeping-bag.

Yet, no outdoor program in the world can guarantee 100% safety in the field. Spending time outdoors in beautiful nature is a pleasure for body and soul, but there is a higher risk that usually come with it. Participants signing up for this project should be aware of having a higher risk of mainly physical and possibly psychological damage in comparison to activities in urban areas