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Feel Good - Act Good. A programm for sustainable youthwork
úterý, 10 únor 2026, 09:30 - středa, 18 únor 2026, 17:00
Eichhörnchensteig 3, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Feel Good - Act Good. A programm for sustainable youthwork
úterý, 10 únor 2026, 09:30 - středa, 18 únor 2026, 17:00
Eichhörnchensteig 3, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Content
Feel Good – Act Good:
Youth Worker Training for Sustainable Youth Work
This training supports youth workers in strengthening their Personal Sustainability competence.
Participants explore tools and practices that enhance wellbeing, resilience, and balance, recognising that feeling good is the foundation for acting sustainably and effectively in their daily lifes and their youth work.
By fostering conscious and responsible action, the training helps youth workers maintain long-term motivation and impact.
The programme supports youth workers in reflecting on their own wellbeing, strengthening their personal and professional resources, and translating these insights into sustainable educational practice with young people. It is based on non-formal education principles, experiential learning, reflection, and peer learning in an international and intercultural setting.
Objectives of the Training
- Support Personal Wellbeing Awareness:
The programme offers space for youth workers to reflect on their physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing as a foundation for meaningful and sustainable action.
- Foster Balance and Resilience:
Mourning Groundings, Self-Care and Positive Psychology methods help strengthen inner stability and motivation.
- Encourage Conscious and Sustainable Action:
Participants explore how daily choices affect ecological, social and cultural systems, linking SDG’s and wellbeing with responsible action.
- Understand Interconnected Dimensions of Sustainability:
The training highlights how wellbeing, social responsibility, ecological awareness, and community engagement influence one another.
- Provide Tools for Educational Practice:
Practical methods support youth workers in designing activities that foster wellbeing and sustainable behaviour in young people.
- Broaden Intercultural and Societal Perspectives:
International exchange exposes participants to diverse approaches, to wellbeing and sustainability.
- Strengthen Teamwork and Community Building:
Group tasks and reflection promote cooperation, shared responsibility, and supportive community dynamics.
Educational Framework and Characteristics
The Feel good - Act good training primarily connects to the ETS competence fields of Facilitating Learning, Managing Resources, Designing Programs, and Networking and Advocating, with additional overlaps in Communicating Meaningfully and Being Civically Engaged. This makes it a holistic program that
supports youth workers’ development across multiple competence areas.
This course is part of the Erasmus+ long-term accreditation programme implemented by Fahrten Ferne Abenteuer Abenteuerzentrum Berlin and its partners.
- Aligned with the ETS Competence Model:
The course content aligns with professional competences, particularly within the frameworks of non-formal learning and fostering sustainability in youth work.
- Certified Training with Digital Recognition:
Participants will gain access to up-to-date recognition solutions, to validate their competence development. Certificates, including Youthpass, will be provided upon completion.
- Innovative Methods:
Participants will explore tools and methodologies from positive psychology and sustainability practices, tailored for the youth work context.
- Digitally friendly approach:
Digital platforms will be integrated for collecting ressources, competence assessment and certification.
- Practical Skill Development:
Participants will design, present, and receive feedback on sustainable youth work programmes.
- Intercultural Exchange:
Activities will encourage participants to explore diverse dimensions and perspectives on sustainability while
engaging in a multicultural environment.
This training course is funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ Programme.
Resources
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Feel Good – Act Good:
Youth Worker Training for Sustainable Youth Work
This badge is a micro-credential certifying that the holder has successfully completed the Feel Good – Act Good Youth Worker Training, with a focus on Personal Sustainability, Wellbeing, and Resilience in Youth Work.
Learning Scope and Workload
The training included face-to-face learning in Germany, complemented by preparatory and follow-up activities to support learning transfer.
The estimated total learner workload amounts to 90 working hours.
Demonstrated Learning Outcomes
Badge holders demonstrated competences related to:
- Reflecting on personal wellbeing, balance, and sustainability as a foundation for sustainable professional engagement in youth work
- Recognising, strengthening, and maintaining physical, emotional, and mental resources to support long-term motivation and resilience
- Applying self-care, grounding, and positive psychology approaches to manage stress and enhance personal and professional wellbeing
- Understanding the interconnectedness of personal wellbeing, social responsibility, ecological awareness, and community engagement
- Translating personal sustainability insights into sustainable educational practice with young people
- Designing and implementing youth work activities that promote wellbeing, conscious action, and sustainable behaviour
- Contributing to supportive group processes, teamwork, community building, and international cooperation in youth work contexts
Learning Journey and Validation
The learning journey combined preparation, face-to-face training, and follow-up reflection. Participants engaged in non-formal and experiential learning activities, individual and group reflection, peer learning, and practical application.
Within this journey, participants followed flexible learning pathways and demonstrated selected learning outcomes through documented evidence for digital Open Badges. The process was supported by peer review, and all evidence was reviewed and approved by the training team.
European Framework and Recognition
This badge is aligned with the European Training Strategy (ETS) Trainer Competence Model.
The training organiser holds an Erasmus+ accreditation and implements learning mobility activities in accordance with the quality standards of EU-funded mobility programmes in the youth field.
The National Agency for Erasmus+ Youth and the European Solidarity Corps in Germany has assessed the quality and approved the accreditation to carry out this training activity.
Tasks
Task no.1
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
1) Complete the international training of youthworkers by earning a selected number of badge out of all offered activity badges.
2) Ad a short reflection or evidence of your summerized learning outcomes of your Feel Good - Act Good Joyrney.
Location
Eichhörnchensteig 3, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Skills
ESCO
#boost positive behaviour
ESCO
#operational resilience
ETS-TR
#Refers to personality models and/or theories
ESCO
#show positive thinking
#Reflecting on theories, concepts and experiences and applies these with regard to ambiguity and change
ETS-TR
#Encourages observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, and communication among learners
ETS-TR
#Designing educational programmes
ESCO
#personality development concepts
ESCO
#advise on matters of social responsibility and sustainability
ESCO
#adhere to environmentally sustainable work practices in the veterinary sector
Organisers
Fahrten Ferne Abenteuer Abenteuerzentrum Berlin
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