The main theme of this project is to addressing Compassion Fatigue, an emotional state that face often people working with
people in need. Compassion fatigue is a term that describes the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping
others — often through experiences of stress or trauma. Compassion fatigue encompasses a more specific experience,
which may be brought about by a stressful workplace or environment, lack of resources, or excessive hours. It can happen
at work or at home in cases that people are taking care of other people in need. Compassion fatigue occurs when these
triggers and experiences start to affect thoughts, moods and well-being outside of the stressing environment. Being affected
by a stressful situation is a natural part of life, but when the feeling becomes overwhelming, we may be experiencing
compassion fatigue. We combine our target groups because we believe that with our mentoring and practical support they
can learn, get inspired and empower each other in our safe learning environment where every experience can become an
opportunity for personal and hence professional development.
This nonformal educational gathering of these 24 souls living and working together in a collective environment will give them
the chance to experience through different mindful art techniques and rituals transformed into non formal and informal
educational activities a practical guide on how to support themselves and align their body-mind-soul. For us it represents a
unique opportunity to boost youth work, experiment with new nonformal tools, inspire more people and enhance new bonds
for a more creative, sustainable educational community of human workers. We believe that a deeper work with the individual
can be a vehicle for social change since human lives are interconnected and mindful arts can be an effective tool to engage
in sustainable social development. Our joint goal is to support our participants through inclusive juggling, visual arts,
storytelling, music, corporal expression and mindful photography in their development while guiding them in selfobservation,
self-evaluation and expansion of their comfort zone, all in a creative and safe learning environment.
We decided to combine our specializations on inclusive juggling, visual arts, storytelling, music and photography for creating
and tracking a human journey that starts from our inner world and through art expression reaches the world outside and
connects us with the others and the society.
1. Spontaneous Being: Inclusive Juggling as an alternative way of communicating with people, strongly connected with the
present moment, a useful tool for developing deep connections between people for exploring our own relation with space
and time and reaching in a healthy way an alternately state of mind.
1. Emotional Tracking: Visual Arts is to go beyond words through the use of images, transform emotions and sensations into
metaphors to make them accessible to our self and others and then share them to discover new points of view and hidden or
dormant internal resources.
2. Human Bonding: Storytelling is a craft for connecting the humankind with the past and creating communities in difficult
times. It is an opportunity to enter a magic world of compassion and empathy for those in need, find comfort in the words
and eyes of the others and get closer with our bodies, minds and souls as humanity.
3. Memory Making: Photography is a medium of seeing reality with various levels of meaning, unite people and ignite
change inside us by slowing down and working in a conscious way, increasing our awareness and sensibility and
expressing ourselves in more free and creative way.
4. Less Is More: Music as a way to express emotions and thoughts that tend to be difficult to share otherwise, as a moment
of active listening and community building when the words seem too much or not enough. A medium for the transformation
of boundaries between the natural and supernatural, probably because of the roles that it fulfils in that aspect in many
societies’ rituals.
5. Breaking Old Patterns: Social Awareness as vehicle for identifying diverse cultural and social norms, recognizing and
acknowledging the inherent strengths in others, leaning into others’ perspectives and paying attention to their stori