underworld
Training Course on embracing one’s Shadow
When: autumn 2025
Where: Statek Habří, Czech republic
For whom: 24 youth workers (6 partner organisations)
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
— Carl Jung,
“Psychology and Alchemy”
Main info
underWorld is an experiential learning program, training course, focused on letting youth workers to:
- discover their shadow, embrace it and use it to their advantage
- boost their self-care and confidence
- support their coaching & mentoring skills
- strengthen their self-management
- teach them basics of new methods, specifically:
- Disconnection from ICT
- Storytelling
- Basic somatic techniques
- Psychodrama
VISION: Embracing the shadow
GOAL: Teach youth workers strategies on embracing their shadow side and facilitating the same experience for others
O1: Establish a safe space in which youth workers (including youth workers with fewer opportunities) can learn together
O2: Let youth worker experience and practice following methods: systemic work, body movement, storytelling, psychodrama, disconnection from ICT
O3: Boost youth workers well-being, resilience, and empathy
O4: Disseminate the learning
You can review the program plan here:
Do you want to be a partner?
We are seeking partners interested any of the following topics:
- eduLarps
- body movement
- theater
- ecology & sustainability
- mental health & well-being
- you will provide 3 youth workers
- you will run short survey among your youth workers in the planning period
- you will fill in our partners form
- you will provide us with the PIF
- you will support the dissemination and evaluation process
- We are collecting a participation fee of 50 euros. This fee will be send to you as a sending organisation (we are not keeping it)
- We are going to send you the organisation support money, 100 e per person, (if you will fulfil all your duties), as we will specify in IPA
- Do you have other needs? Tell us, we will be happy to discover how to make this experience meaningful for your organisation!
- in-house workshop for partner organisation (organised by you)
- workshop for youth (organised by participants)
- eBook of used activities (developed by us)
- photos & videos dissemination
Check the Internal partnership Agreement!!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-OkIF1K0f7ZxhJJ6J_qLfxd-z35sp6EbZxm-mONMTBg/edit?usp=sharing
Interested?
write us on info@czechinspire.eu
Project's Team
Vojtěch Žák
Project supervisor
I am a trainer, facilitator, coach, storyteller, and writer.
The main topics I am focused on are the labor market, social inclusion (mainly of the LGBT+ spectrum), and personal development. The main methods I use are storytelling, coaching, systemic work, body movement, art, gamification, and LARP.
I went from a career as a journalist and marketing specialist to becoming a coach, facilitator, and trainer. I have worked for 6 years as a scout leader and later participated in the EVS program at Olde Vechte Foundation in the Netherlands.
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Veronica Spagna
facilitator
I have been working as a project manager and writer in the International Cooperation and European programs field. I have experiences in facilitating activities with young people, in formal and informal education about human rights, sustainable development and social inclusion using non-formal educational methods like embodiment, dance, arts and crafting. Creative and proactive, always a dancing step forward.