Doing health – Easy methods for health and well-being in youth work

23 - 28 JANUARY 2012, BAD HONNEF, GERMANY

• Make your daily youth work healthier!

• Find good practice tools to work on topics around “health” with young people!

• Exchange with colleagues from all around Europe about non-formal learning methods for prevention and health promotion, and get some new ideas and background!

transfer e.V. organizes the Training Course “Doing health – Easy methods for health and well-being in youth work” that will take place in Bad Honnef, Germany, from 23 – 28 January 2012 with 12 organizations from 11 European countries – Iceland, UK, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Germany and Greece.

This Training Course trains and exchanges methods of non-formal education with a focus on health promotion and prevention. We promote a positive approach of tackling health, looking at the resources young people need for their healthy development. The philosophy is to “do” health, which means to live accordingly and to experience it also during the training. The course is run by experts from the field with active involvement of the participants' expertise.

We will deepen methods around the topics:

• stress management and well-being
• food and eating culture
• social skills
• body awareness and sexuality
• physical activity

The method of the training course will also be, of course, non-formal education and learning in individual and group work, taking in consideration participants needs.