ArtCoaching
Training Course
14-23 March 2026 | Beskid Wyspowy, Poland
During 8 days together in the peaceful mountain setting of Beskid Wyspowy, participants will explore how coaching and artistic expression can empower young people, strengthen group processes, and inspire personal growth.
OBJECTIVES
- Development of coaching and training skills of participants (including, among others, active listening, paraphrasing, asking questions, focusing on resources and solutions, managing the group process, designing and implementing workshops, working with feedback).
- Development of emotional intelligence of participants, which will translate directly into working with young people’s emotions (including, among others, recognizing and naming emotions, distinguishing the information that each emotion carries, adequately expressing and reacting to one’s own and others’ emotions, perceiving emotions as signals speaking about our needs).
- Learning art coaching techniques and their application in working with young people (e.g. drawing, collage, singing, theatre, intuitive dance, creative writing, drama).
Through the implementation of the ArtCoaching project, we want to develop the coaching and trainer skills of youth workers, following specific assumptions and approaches that, on the one hand, are consistent with our values as partner organizations, and on the other hand, have proven effective in our experience of working with youth, including, above all:
- Solution Focused Approach
- Working with resources
- Emotional intelligence
- Nonviolent communication
- Artcoaching
PARTICIPANTS PROFILE
The project is designed for 18 youth workers from Poland, Romania, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Greece who:
- Work directly with young people and understand their challenges, needs, achievements, and aspirations.
- Have a good command of English, sufficient to take part in an international, multi-day event.
- Are available and committed to participate fully in all stages of the project — including the preparation phase, all workshops during the mobility, and follow-up dissemination activities.
- Are motivated to learn, grow, and exchange good practices and experiences with other youth workers and organizations.
- Have access to a target group of young people with whom they can share the knowledge and results gained from the project.
- Are open-minded, eager to learn new approaches, and willing to engage in intercultural dialogue, as well as to reflect on and further develop their current practices in youth work.
- We welcome participants 18+, there is no upper age limit.
ACCOMMODATION:
We will be staying at the rural educational center called “Spokojna Dolina” (Calm Valley). It is located in Beskid Wyspowy, approximately 1,5h from Krakow, a large city in southern Poland. It sits in a beautiful mountain scenario, quite isolated from bigger cities or towns. They offer shared rooms for 2, 3 or 4 people as well as shared showers and toilets. Accommodation is simple, yet cosy and prepared with love and care. We will be served 3 vegetarian meals per day and have 2 energy breaks during the workshops. There is access to the Internet in the venue, although it may not be very strong when many people use it. Please, consider that meat and alcohol are not allowed in the venue.
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Your kind of training?
Apply now!Application deadline (24h UTC): 18 January 2026Date of selection: 6 February 2026
Training overview
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14189
This Training Course is
for 18 participants
from France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches
Working language(s):
English
Fundacja Wyobraź sobie (Youth NGO)
Contact for questions:
Costs
Participation fee
There is no participation fee.
Accommodation and food
Accommodation and meals included in the programme are 100% covered.
Travel reimbursement
Real travel costs are covered up to the Erasmus+ distance calculator corresponding amounts, using the cheapest and most convenient transportation methods.
The maximum amounts are:
GREEN TRAVEL
- 56 euro for participants from Poland (28 euro in case of regular travel)
- 285 euro for participants from Hungary (211 euro in case of regular travel)
- 417 euro for participants from France, Greece, Romania, Italy (309 euro in case of regular travel)
REGULAR TRAVEL
- 395 euro for participants from Spain
Green Travel is defined as travel that uses low-emissions means of transport for the main part of the travel, such as bus, train, bike or car-pooling.
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