Who are we?
What is Em(path) 4 you(th)
EM(path) is an inspired project that touches the personal, professional and emotional life of all demography in the world – mainly youth workers.
This is platform is a result of a Capacity Building in the field of Youth
action financed by Erasmus+ programme of European Commission
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability of a person to identify and recognize own and others’ emotions, it allows using emotional information to guide one’s behaviour and adapt to different environments. EI boosts the ability of listening and mediating – that is crucial when working with young people.
Mastering EI is strongly connected to Social Emotional learning (SEL) – process through which we understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, make responsible decisions.
This is why an investment into personal development of the youth workers in terms of their EI & SEL skills is necessary. It might become the major key towards providing quality youth work on global level that shall positively impact overall inclusion of the youth with fewer opportunities into Erasmus+.
How it came to be?
Em(path) 4 you(th) idea was born back in 2019 during a youth exchange on the topic of emotional intelligence organized by InCo association, that had such an evident strong impact on participants and the youth workers who run it that it was decided: the idea must grow into something bigger. As we dream big, we decided to create a project that will spread emotional intelligence around the globe and this is why we have chosen to create an intercontinental partnership: to bring unique cultural contributions to the topic and to bring emotional intelligence all over.
The project started in 2020 and the global pandemic did give us many obstacles, but nonetheless here we are: presenting you a course on emotional intelligence and social-emotional learning, designed and created by youth workers from 4 continents during multiple meetings around the world. We hope you enjoy it!
What we dreamed about
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Promote importance of well being and mental health of young people and especially young people who work with and for young people (the youth workers)
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Promote emotional intelligence & social-emotional learning, because we believe understanding own
and others’ emotions brings more empathy and solidarity and makes the world better
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Make a methodological framework that is easy: this is why we created both handbook and this platform for your education
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Bring together youth workers from the whole world so our methodology would be unique and
discover as well why emotional intelligence is so important in different cultural contexts
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Build capacity of this amazing and diverse partnership: learn together to deliver more fun and quality projects to young people in the future!
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Of course to dive into digital world and to make this course online, so everyone can have access to this knowledge, whenever you are!
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Promote Erasmus+ across the globe: if you haven’t yet participated – go go go!
Our Partners
We have chosen to work with a diverse group of 10 organizations from 4 continents. It is going to be an amazing experience for all!
Would you like to know more?
Feel free to visit our website where you can find out more about our project.