Description of the Project
"Protect the Environment and your Mental Health with your Connection with Nature (PEMEHECON)" is a set of creative exercises and mindfulness-based games to reconnect with nature and with yourself. It is a wonderful way to bring people from different backgrounds and ages together and make new friends.
With the increasing influence of technology in our lives, less time is being spent outdoors. The screens keep us hooked by creating easy rewards for the brain and are slowly influencing our behaviour and lifestyle. These brain rewards create unhealthy habits which are extremely hard to break. It is no wonder that obesity, anxiety, loneliness and many other lifestyle issues are on the rise. We desperately need a substitute for all the junk entertainment that is being fed into our brains.
Is there a simple way to unblock our minds and imagination so that we can move away from our old habits and create new ways of being? Perhaps with forest theatre, you can choose a few moments to break free and learn to fly.
Forest theatre is a pathway to explore our inner selves by taking inspiration from nature. It is about learning nature, in nature. And we all know, the best learning happens when it is fun.
Benefits of the project:
The main benefits of nature play, besides having great fun and creating memorable moments, are the positive effects on our observation and imagination. It builds our attention, curiosity and will lead to higher self-confidence, self-awareness and self-control. Also, it helps us to:
- Improve Heart & Lung Health
- Improve mood & energy level.
- Enhance emotional intelligence.
- Relieve anxiety & worry.
- Reduce Stress & Avoid Burnout
- Get Better Sleep
- Find Calm, Creativity, Clarity
- Exchange Cooperation
- Gain Environmental awareness
- Help the participants create their activities & work with teams.
Aims of the project:
- To teach participants how to have inner health and how to apply it in youth work, by building the necessary set of competences of NFE Methods/Tools –
- To train Youth workers how to implement high-quality workshop about Environment and Health which will increase youth employability by giving them necessary skills and competence and which will increase their active citizenship, including Youngsters with fewer opportunities.
- To implement the use of modern technologies (apps and digital tools) in the training and motivate Youth Workers to do the same.
- To gain and learn ways of gaining Environmental Awareness
- To learn more about theatre activities in our local nature.