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Mindfulness Booklet a Toolkit for Youth Workers Project Mindfulness booklet A toolkit for youth workers Project “Mind Full Ness” November-December, 2018 Contents About this booklet ................................................................................................................... 3 allaZOYME ............................................................................................................................ 3 The project “Mind Full Nest” ............................................................................................... 4 The situation of youth with migrant background ............................................................... 5 Mindfulness and its benefits................................................................................................ 7 List of tools that cultivate mindfulness .................................................................................. 8 The painting of the dance .................................................................................................... 8 Creative cleaning .................................................................................................................10 Guess who I am ...................................................................................................................11 Positive feelings sharing ....................................................................................................13 Ten special minutes - Our soul connection .......................................................................14 Cyprus Got Talent (Psychoeducation Through Movement) .............................................15 Mindful Nose ........................................................................................................................17 The sea .................................................................................................................................20 Connect with the souls – Soul’s connections – Inner souls ............................................22 Poetry ......................................................................................................................................23 Storm ....................................................................................................................................23 Bird .......................................................................................................................................24 About this booklet The present booklet aims at enhancing the youth workers’ work with young people, especially the ones who are vulnerable, coming from a migrant/refugee background. The booklet is a result of the project “Mind Full Nest” which was organized by the informal group “allaZOYME”. After discussing the situation of the young people with migrant/refugee background in Europe and conceptualizing mindfulness, the booklet offers a number of tools that can be done with young people. The tools represent mostly workshops with activities which the participants of the training course developed with a lot of love. In the end of the booklet, you can read 2 poems created also during the training course. We want to express our deep gratitude to Elena Vasiliadou for editing this booklet. Enjoy it! Informal group “allaZOYME” “allaZOYME” is the name we chose to give to our informal group of young people. Grammatically, “allaZOYME” derives from three Greek words, the one embracing the other. In reality it means “we change” but at the same time it encompasses in the change the idea of innovation and the idea of progressing. It illustrates that by experiencing new concepts, we change towards a sustainable, coherent and evolving living. “allaZOYME” is about moving forward, learning and choosing to pursue positive changes in our lives that will facilitate our development, improvement and progress. Every change is enriching. Yet “allaZOYME” does not imply progress of me and you only. It is about the whole society we live in. It is about envisioning a better world and striving to achieve it collectively. Our group is inspired by the idea of enriching changes in society and is here to help achieve it. Our focus is young people because we believe in their potential and capacities of being the drivers of social change. At the moment the group involves 30 young people with diverse age range. Our team is composed of experience youth workers but also very young people with dreams and vision for the future. Find more about us on our facebook page1. The project “Mind Full Nest” The project “Mind Full Nest” was a 7-days training course that took place in Pissouri, Cyprus, between 25/11/2018 and 03/12/2018. The project was hosted by the informal group of young people “allaZOYME” and brought together 27 youth workers from Cyprus, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Portugal and Czech Republic. The aim of the project was to inspire youth workers and to equip them with competences and methods needed to work in a meaningful and impactful way with hard to reach youth (especially migrants/refugees/asylum seekers) by using mindfulness interventions. The project’s objectives were: - To gain knowledge on how to use a diverse range and innovative non-formal methods when working with youth, especially the ones hard to reach. - To develop skills in using holistic education in order to achieve more impactful transformations in the lives of youth for reaching their full potential. - To be inspired and motivated to improve their work with youth. - To create sustainable follow-up action plans that will enhance the impact on hard to reach youth’s lives both on local and European level. The project envisioned to create a “nest” for the young refugees/migrants in Europe, by empowering their development and social inclusion. It infused into youth work the innovative element of mindfulness which can significantly maximize the impact of youth work on youth with fewer opportunities. By the end of the project, youth workers were 1 https://www.facebook.com/Allazoyme-221426908268771/ professionally more developed and equipped with competences and methods needed for empowering to the hard to reach youth. You can see the video of the project here2 The project was funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission. The situation of youth with migrant background Each year, millions of people are forced to leave their homes and look for refuge. Globally in 2017, there were 22.5 million refugees and 2.8 million asylum-seekers as stated in the UNHCR 2016 Global Trends Report. More than one million refugees and migrants have made the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean into Europe in 2016, a situation that stayed similar in 2017. This movement establishes one of the largest movements of displaced people through European borders since the Second World War. Nevertheless, the migration process confronts them with challenges and confers to them certain vulnerabilities upon their arrival in a new country. These vulnerabilities include discrimination poor working conditions, lack of access to basic social services such as health, lack of social protection, etc. Therefore, the migration experience can end up representing either an opportunity or a risk for youth and can either lead to their development or the very opposite. EU cares a lot for the inclusion and empowerment of refugees/migrants. In 2016, EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid gave more than 87% of its annual budget, to projects helping the forcibly displaced and their host communities in order to meet the most pressing needs of these extremely vulnerable populations, protect and support them. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOjD0s0Mios Worldwide, one in every 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum as mentioned in the publication “Integrating refugees through youth work activities” People and especially youth migrate for a plethora of reasons. The decision to migrate is frequently related to important life transitions, such as obtaining higher education, finding and starting work, or getting married. Even worse, numerous youth are forced to migrate to escape poverty, violence, conflict, or are displaced due the effects of war or climate change. As such, youth are heavily represented in migration for humanitarian reasons, including as refugees, asylum-seekers and as unaccompanied minors. Nevertheless, as mentioned in several reports, for some youth, especially young women and those in irregular situations, the migration process confronts them with specific challenges and confers to them certain vulnerabilities upon their arrival in a new country. These vulnerabilities include discrimination based on gender, migration status, ethnicity or religion; poor working conditions, lack of access to basic social services such as health, risks associated with sexual and reproductive health, and lack of social protection. Therefore, the migration experience can end up representing either an opportunity or a risk for youth and can either lead to their development or the very opposite. According to the UN’s newly adopted development framework, Agenda 2030, Member States have agreed to “ensure safe, orderly and regular migration involving full respect for human rights and the humane treatment of migrants regardless of migration status, of refugees and of displaced persons”. EU cares a lot too about the inclusion and empowerment of refugees/migrants. In 2016, EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid gave more than 87% of its annual budget, to projects helping the forcibly displaced and their host
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