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The goal of “Shine your light” is to provide them with non-formal education tools and methods to recognize and prevent potential or existent symptoms of burnout syndrome to be able to support young people who are facing emotional and psychological challenges. Thus, this training course would enhance the capacity and sustainability of youth work in Latvia and Europe.

The goal would be reached with following objectives:
1) To explore the challenges of youth work in different European countries and share possible solutions and stories of success with focus on psychological and emotional wellbeing;
2) To deepen the knowledge and understanding of causes and risk factors of burnout in youth work in order to be able to recognize and prevent the symptoms of burnout;
3) To provide participants with new artistic methods and tools to build a better resilience to stress and reframe the way they see their work with young people, to be able to provide a higher quality services for young people;
4) To strengthen a network of international partners to build a more sustainable and consistent partnership;
5) To create new national and international activities to apply gained knowledge and skills in daily work with young people, as well as to share new knowledge and experience with a wider audience – colleagues, partners, young people and other, involved in youth work.

This project will provide youth workers and youth leaders with an opportunity to gain a knowledge and deeper understanding of signs and symptoms of burnout and its’ effect on the quality of the youth work. During this training course participants will experience different methods (mostly expressive arts such as drama, social circus, creative writing, body movement and other) that will help them to become more aware of personal motivation for their work, set up personal and professional boundaries, manage their stress by recognizing and acting out emotions, that will help them to prevent potential symptoms of burnout. By preventing possible burnout and getting better self-awareness, youth workers will have a better possibility to develop professionally in the youth field, which will potentially decrease or even prevent staff turnover in their organizations and will create a better environment for youth workers to provide higher quality support to young people in their countries and create strategies for more consistent and sustainable youth work.