DASS – Dance Against Stressful Situations

The objectives of the project are the following:

• Foster creative and artistic responses for youth living in difficult situations;
• Develop artistic sensibility while promoting well-being and tackling mental and physical stress of youth;
• Develop the ability of self-expression;
• Providing long term benefits for young people by applying methodologies of dance and artistic tools;
• Promoting social inclusion, diversity and tolerance, as well as the intercultural dialogue;
• Foster educational digital tools among young people, creating a safe virtual learning environment;
• Enhance competences of youth workers through the training on innovative methodologies;
• Improve capacity building of youth workers and enhance high quality of youth work;
• Improve the impact of the organizations in the field of youth.

• 5 transactional meetings.
• Review of methodologies and practices applying dance and arts for empowering youth.
• A survey investigating youth’s discomforts.
• Creation of 5 educational modules, applying dance and other artistic disciplines associated with experiences lived.
• Development of an educational online training for young people living stressful situations.
• Training activity for partners’ staff, on the use and application of dance and other forms of art for therapeutic purposes, to develop innovative tools for the empowerment of youth.
• Creation of Booklet containing methodologies, practices, activities to tackle negative feelings of stressful events, addressing youth workers from dance and arts field working closely with youth.
• Brainstorming, development, construction, testing, and launch of a self-help mobile application for youth combining mindfulness, dance, and art.
• 4 local Multiplier Events and a Final event – Festival “EYTA” in France.

• Dancing and artistic empowering training (OER)
• DASS Booklet
• App Mind-yourself