A society is built of a series of place-based communities, and communities are formed of individuals. So the changes that happen at the individual level of youth directly affect the community they are a part of. This in turn transforms the society at large.

A resilient youth makes a resilient community which builds a resilient society.

In our daily work with youth we observe that youth and youth workers alike are disconnected from nature. Among our partnership we are also noticing that youth workers not only are lacking understanding how nature could be used in youth work, but also they don’t have awareness of nature. For example, in training courses, seminars, the participants avoid going outdoors, they choose to have activities indoors. But after spending even a short time in nature, they feel the benefits and even remember that nature is bringing them to a good state of emotion and mind.

The climate crisis, with all its components, not just carbon emissions, but also habitat loss, biodiversity loss, deforestation, the reduction of fertile soil, the mass extinction of many of the insects, birds, mammals, fish, the loss of ecosystems, and so many other elements of it, is due to many reasons.

Yet one of the main causes of this is the impact we, as humans, have on the world. And our impact on the world has been so devastating because we are not connected to nature.

The vision of this project, and of the partnership medium and long term is to build a sense of ecological awareness in youth and youth workers. We strongly believe that developing ways to bring these nature-based approaches in youth work can impact both youth and communities. And this is why we bring this ecology centered human development approach into our youth work strategy.

Re-wild guide for youth workers:

https://www.omsicopac.org/re-wild-proiect-strategic-european/

Project partners:

Re-wild project is co-funded by the European Union