EUROPEAN COMMISSION

MOBILITY OF YOUTH WORKERS

Lavinia Florentina Mateescu
BORN ON 19/07/1990

PARTICIPATED IN A LEARNING MOBILITY PROJECT

Think Like Nature: Emotional Intelligence with Forest School.

THE PROJECT TOOK PLACE FROM 31/05/2017

TO 05/06/2017 IN Coalport, United Kingdom.

MOBILITY OF YOUTH WORKERS

Learning mobility projects of youth workers support the professional development of youth workers by enabling them to acquire
new skills and professional experiences. The projects may include transnational activities such as seminars, training courses,
contact-making events, study visits and job shadowing periods abroad. The projects also contribute to strengthening the quality
and the role of youth work in Europe.

Erasmus+ is the European Unions programme for boosting skills and employability through activities organised in the field
of education, training, youth, and sport. Youth activities under Erasmus+ aim to improve the key competences, skills and
employability of young people, promote young people's active participation in the society, their social inclusion and well-being,
and foster improvements in youth work and youth policy at local, national and international level.

Justinas Brikys, Director of Subtiluship

CIC (Abroadship.org)

The ID of this certificate is H7GM-PSD2-FE9L-F8CX. Youthpass is a Europe-wide validation system for non-formal learning
If you want to verify the ID, please go to the web site of Youthpass: within the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme. For further
http://www.youthpass.eu/qualitycontrol/ information, please have a look at http://www.youthpass.eu.

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PROJECT INFORMATION

With this document we certify that Lavinia Florentina Mateescu took part in a project called Think Like Nature:
Emotional Intelligence with Forest School. It was a training course. The project was organised by Subtiluship
C.I.C. [Abroadship.org], in cooperation with Abroadship.org (UK), Rooted (Malta), Lycian Pathfinders Youth
Group (Turkey), Apkabink Europa (Lithuania), Comitato d'Intesa (Italy), ReCreativity Social Enterprise
(Hungary), La Vbria Intercultural (Spain), Romania in Transition (Romania).

Within Erasmus+, a training course is a project where youth workers and youth leaders come together for several days to
develop their knowledge, skills, and attitudes on a certain theme. The daily programme of the course is based on learning
objectives and facilitated by experienced trainers. The training courses promote the initiative and creativity of participants and
have a direct impact on their future youth work or youth policy activities, such as organising quality projects and providing
intercultural and non-formal learning experiences for young people.

Altogether, 24 people took part in the project.

The overall aim and specific objectives of the project:

To introduce Forest School - what it is, how it is delivered, how to get involved after the course; develop new skills
to use in an outdoor environment; be able to experience first hand the benefits of Forest School; grow as a person;
understand the natural environment more and how we can work with it; be enthused to consider becoming a Forest
School Level 3 Leader

Main contents and activities of the project:

Getting to know each other, Team Building, Pecha Kucha NGO, Introduction of the concept "Forest School",
Introduction the the forest school area, Tools Talk, Tools Use, Building Shelters, Camp Fire, visiting local Forest School
NGO, Trust building, Safety in the Woodlands, Maslow theory, Knots, Journey stick reflections, Environmental Art,
T-shirt exchange market, Emotional Intelligence with Improvisation theatre, Denbuilding, Mud kitchen, Bug Hunting,
Picture Frames, Clay Faces

Trainer/s:
Chris Wishard
Martin Harrison
Justinas Brikys

Among the results of the project are the following:

Participants learned innovative method how to engage youth with the help of woodlands, started to develop Forest
School projects, received competences to become FS teachers and create their own FS in home countries, received
valuable toolset to foster persons self-empowerment and self-esteem.

Justinas Brikys, Director of Subtiluship

London, UK, 12/06/2017 CIC (Abroadship.org)
Person in charge of the project

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