Boost Your Well-being, Turkey

Project name: Boost Your Well-being

Project location: Antalya, Turkey

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Project description:

'Boost Your Well-being Project ' will be held in Turkey and designed by Masal Diyarı Education and Culture Association (MASEK) which was established in Kumluca, Antalya in 2014. The Core team of MASEK consist of educational psychological counselors, pre-school education teachers, psychologists, child development specialist, trainers and consultants.
The project designed in 2 parts:
First part of the project is ‘Boost your well-being’ training. The training will help participants to understand social, cultural and personal aspects that influence their identity, challenge the norms, and take actions which lead to a more congruent life. Trainings will be based on non-formal and informal education with a self-directed learning approach. Training venue is in the middle of a forest, The participants will stay in wooden houses without cell phones, internet, social media or camera then to have opportunity to feel their own well-being.
The second part of the project is the development of an online platform called ‘Boost Platform’ for further communication and exchange of experience and good practices for the participants of the training, youth workers, youth leaders, teachers, psychologists, individuals and organisations who are already working in the area of empowerment, inclusion and positive change and want to learn more about good practices around topic of well-being. It is expected to continue 'Boost your well-being' trainings with increasing number of participants and enlarge the number of members of this platform.
The platform will be a good and an useful tool for dissemination of the project also.
 

Goal and purpose of the project:

The goal of this training course is to enable participants to cultivate capacities in their own environments that encourage and empower young people to discover, understand and express their authentic self and inner diversity.
Purposes

• To increase awareness of our own inner processes and capacities in a holistic way (mental, physical, emotional, spiritual aspects) and explore how they are contributing to our well-being.
• To provide space for participants to understand and overcome blockages related to expressing our inner self.

Motivation of the applicant / applicant team:

This application is for us an unique opportunity to spread our useful work to many persons with whom we want to share important topics as vulnerability, empathy, resilience, compassion, gratitude and accountability; topics which will support a deep connnection among many more persons than only the ones who are directly involved in this powerful project and those who really need it!

Use of prize money:

Prize will be used

• to organize 5 day training with food and accomodation in Yazır Village, Kumluca;
• for the fees of trainers;
• to establish an online platform called ‘Boost Platform’ with website design, domain, hosting and e-mail service fees;
• For the rent of the training room;
• For the travel cost of trainer;
• For the stationary and printing costs.