30 min of playing football with a patch on one eye

10 min of break

30 min of playing basquetball with only one arm because the other is tied

10 min of reflection. Telling the things we felt and how do you think we could improve this situation

This activity is made to raise awareness about taking a sense out of the ecuation when doing a sport or any activity.

13-25 years old

Energizer with the people after coffee .

Getting baskets hats bottles and going and splitting the people in different groups of 4-5 peoples and go to the forest to gather mushrooms.

We pick all the mushrooms enough of each different species to be able to identify them when we come back to the main site.

We gather and go back .

A professional is gonna show and explain the different ways to identify different families and mushrooms putting all the mushrooms we found in a museum way on a table with their names but also the really distinct characteristics of them.

Lunch or dinner with the mushrooms we gathered . If they are enough .

Second half of the day

Presentation of the different projects of people or future projects and expectations from the learning activity .

Presentation style

Game at the of the day

Create and perform a true or imaginary story about different family of mushrooms or different mushroom. Small groups of 4-5 people . 30-40 min préparation

. Main take aways

• Sparking imagination and creativity

• Team spirit and collaboration

• Confidence and trust

• Stories that can be used to inspire and share with younger generations and other people

• Easier to memorize and learn the mushrooms

Closing circle feedback and lunch .

Questions

• Something incredible you saw or felt today

• What could be done better

  
  

Interest requirement:

Willing to grown your own vegetables at home. (Regardless the space or place)

¿Where is our starting point for each of us?

Activities:

• Finding resources (first buying if you can, if not trading, reusing, the are of asking and offering)

• Preparing living soil for vegetable garden, theory

• Soil hunting, practice and observe

• Seed bedding & watering

Energizer's:

1. The are of asking and offering, make trading with the people around for a fair deal. You need animal poop and straw.

2. Clay paint and sculpting, lets get moady

Main point is to get ideas and push your thoughts about the possibilities to grow food further.

Gardening is a great exercise to understand pacients, care taking and feel the reward of growing your own food.

Many times we don't know how vegetable plants look like.

Promote creativity and trail&error

From Carolina Bertorello

Thank you for your time🌻

Audience: women 18+

Energizer & name game:

Each person says their name and shows a stretching pose, everyone in the circle is doing that pose and holding it for 10 seconds & after everyone is done all the poses are done one after the other continuously(the name of the pose is the name of the participant).

Main activity:

Input: talking & teaching about connecting with the body through dance; expressing your inner world through dance; releasing emotions through body movement; the connection between feeling free and moving freely in your body; entering meditative state through dancing.

Exercise 1: Facilitator is doing a guided meditation. The goal is to calm the mind and become aware of every part of the body through breathing and mentally scanning the body from the head to the toes. Participants are also becoming aware of the state they are in, the emotions that are feeling inside and the thoughts going through their minds.

Exercise 2: Feeling the music and moving to the music (the music is playing , each participant starts to move their body to the music without thinking, just feeling which part of the body wants to move.

The facilitator is guiding in the background explaining the vulnerability that might be felt and present during this exercise, guiding the participants to let go of any shame, reensuring them that there is no judgement and they are free to express themselves).

Participant's creative output: At the end of the workshop there will be a challenge where each participant dances intuitively to a song by choice or another participant chooses the song.

Reflection:

Sharing experience, reflecting on the feelings and general energy level the participants had before and after the workshop; Answering in what way this helped them or what kind of impact the workshop left on them.

Starting: energizers

Day 1:

A) have each person describe what it feels like to have the gender they have (female-male-non binary)

B) provide some theory of the biological and social genders, intersection people, chromosomes and the rest.

Day 2:

Games_

A) 3 persons pairs: one is talking to the group describing something that happened to them, the other is interrupting the person talking on purpose and the third observes the other two. And exchange roles till everyone has played every one of the three roles of the game.

B) 2 persons pairs of the opposite genders (either male, female or non-binary) find a topic they want to discuss and have them discuss about it

a) as if they were of the opposite gender, trying to think from the other's gender point of view

b) again the same topic but now from the point of view of the gender they have.

Day 3:

A) Have a map, ask one person at a time have their eyes closed and choose randomly a place on earth, and imagine they have been born in that place instead of the one that actually have. Provide the people a few informations about the place they chose and ask them to imagine how their life or even their character would have developed differently if they had been born in that place.

B) have every one of them to choose an animal they love, or a flower or any other living thing and ask to imagine how it would be like if they had this form instead of a human form. For example if one chooses a bird, how they believe it would feel like to live as a bird.

Aria.

- Learning more about our organism as a community ;

- Going into cold waters and keep our mind in balance with the body ; 🍃

Come and be in peace with yourself🧘‍♀️

• Proper mind activation (sports at high level)

• Non verbal language: receive and send information.

• Voice modulation

• Sort information in your mind in order to make the content easy to understand and assimilate

• Context, time, content, public…

• Practice in pairs, first w/o indications then with them and let them share the differences

• Sum up and condense info in the end

In groups of 4, participants can walk through the forest, every group has a Polaroïd photobooth. Everytime a group meets a small paper hanging from a tree, the participants of that group read the question (about storytelling and collective stories), and think about a collective answer. Then the goal is to create a “statue photograph” : one person of the group will be the photographer and the rest will be in the statue. There are 6 questions in total, disseminated in the forest.

When the groups went through the 6 questions and did 6 photos, it’s time for presentations. For each question, there is a poster where each team sticks their photo answering the question. Gathering around the posters, the rest of the participants tries to guess the legend of each photography.

The activity is concluded by a theory part, where the facilitator completes each poster with additional aspects about each problematic :)

Team building: MARSHMALLOW CHALLENGE -

The participants will have to construct towers with: 20 spaghetti sticks, 90cm of tape, 9cm of yarn and a marshmallow. The towers must have a marshmallow on top, and the team with the highest standing tower wins the game.

After explaining, the trainers divide the group into groups of 4 participants. Each group will have 18 minutes to build the tallest tower they can.

Once the time finishes, the towers are measured, and the ones that fall, break, or tumble are disqualified. The highest tower wins.

Show after playing the game: TED TALK MARSHMALLOW TOWER Build a tower, build a team | Tom Wujec

For debriefing, the trainers debate the superficial messages and analogies we can take from the “Marshmallow Challenge” guiding the participants to the right conclusions through the following questions:

1. Was it easy planning and strategizing your towers?

2. How did your group do, managing the time to build the tower?

3. Who had what role in your group? And how did everyone’s different posture affect the result in your opinion?

4. What did you learn about working in a team to reach a goal through this activity?

5. Who took the leadership in the group? How did it manifest in different moments? What did I learn about myself and my behavior? About other people and their behavior? About the behavior of groups? What insights can I take from this experience that I could apply in other contexts?

TREASURE/ ADVENTURE HUNT

1 Exercise with Reusable MATERIALS

2 Create a beautiful poem / music about community

3 Create Art using reusable / recycled materials

4 Send a note to a friend telling the power of community

5 List 5 practical actions to each permaculture principle

6 Create the next worldwide trendy dance

7 Find another group and tell them your best joke

8 Take the craziest photo taking care of nature

9 Create funny and useful memes

10 Choose a resource and list the best 3 project ideas 

11 Create a game using reusable materials and let’s play it

12 Create a magic slogan and handshake for your group

HELPING EACH OTHER

GIVE YOUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE/PROBLEM AND GIVE YOUR BEST SOLUTION

Each participant will receive a paper where will write a challenge problem and write your best solution; the papers will pass in row until everyone has given a solution to each problem 

Design thinking with the resource projects

1. EMPATHY (SPEED DATING FOCUSED on DISCOVERING AND FEEDBACK)

2. DEFINE (SPECIFY PROBLEMS, AS NEEDS, TARGET GROUP)

3. IDEALIZATION (SMART GOALS, SOLUTIONS)

4. PROTOTYPE (CREATE THE SOLUTIONS)

5. TEST (PRACTISE / PUT IN ACTION)

6. IMPLEMENTATION

DEBRIEFING

What are in your head? (logics)

What is in your heart? (feelings)

What do you wish to do with your hands? (actions)

Theme: Biodiversity mapping and safety (tick and pest recognition)

Participants: 16-25 year old

Eco Rule: Strictly zero paper. All instructions, tasks, and notes are managed digitally

Tech Needed: Smartphones with iNaturalist or Seek by iNaturalist installed, internet access / roaming

🦟 Energizer – "The Mosquito Ninja" (10 Minutes)

Objective: Wake up reflexes, build focus, and introduce the insect theme.

How to Play:

The group stands in a large circle. Everyone strikes a "Ninja stance."

When the leader yells "Mosquito!", everyone must remain completely frozen unless it is their turn.

Moving clockwise, each player gets one fluid, lightning-fast "Ninja slice" movement to try and gently clap the hand of the person next to them (simulating squashing a mosquito).

The target player can make exactly one quick ninja dodge to save themselves. If their hand is clapped, that hand goes behind their back. If both hands are clapped, they sit down.

Keep the pace rapid until the group is laughing and fully alert.

🧬 The Physical Split into teams (10 Minutes)

Objective: Divide 30 people into 5 diverse teams of 6 participants using chaotic physical contact.

How to Play:

Tell everyone to mingle and walk around the space.

The facilitator will yell out physical touch commands. Participants must instantly form clusters matching that exact number and body part.

Round 1: "Group of 5 elbows!" (Quickly form clusters of 5 people touching elbows).

Round 2: "Group of 3 knees!" (Break apart, mix, and form trios touching knees).

Round 3: "Group of 6 butts!" (Mix and form groups of 6 touching backsides).

Round 4 (Final Team Lock): "Group of 6 toes!"

Note for facilitators: The final round creates exactly 5 teams of 6 people. Tell them to stay in these groups

📱App Introduction (10 Minutes)

The App: Instruct everyone to open iNaturalist or Seek (Seek is great for instant, offline AI camera recognition).

The Tutorial briefly

The Photo: Open the app camera. Take a crisp, clear, close-up photo of the plant or insect. For plants, try to get both the leaf shape and the flower.

The ID: Click "What did you see?" to let the AI analyze the image and suggest species.

The Log: Save the observation. Explain that this crowdsources real scientific data to map Croatian biodiversity.

🌿 Digital Handout & Photo Album Task (40 Minutes)

Copy and paste this exact section into your group chat (WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook group, Telegram, Padlet Slack, whichever app you as group use to participate) so the teams have it on their phones.

📥 DIGITAL TASKSHEET: CROATIAN ECO-HUNT (adapt it to the location you are organizing the activity)

Your Mission: Explore the designated outdoor area. Find, identify, and photograph the following species using your app. Create a shared digital photo album (or a group chat media collage) containing these specific findings:

🕸️ The Safety Check (Crucial):

Castor Bean Tick (Ixodes ricinus): Look closely at long grass blades and low bushes. Note its teardrop-shaped body. Identify it to learn how to avoid it!

🌸 Flora of Croatia:

Common Chicory (Cichorium intybus): Look for bright, sky-blue wild flowers along path edges.

Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale): Find the jagged leaves or yellow/fluffy heads.

Fig tree (Ficus carica) or Blackberry bush (Rubus fruticosus): Identify the leaf patterns of these classic local plants.

🐞 Fauna & Micro-life:

Firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus): Look at the base of lime trees or rocks for these bright red and black patterned bugs.

Seven-Spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata): Search on leaf surfaces.

🍄 The Decomposers:

Any Wild Mushroom or Tree Fungus: Look on rotting logs or damp soil. (Do not touch, just photograph!)

🌧️ Closure – Summoning of the Rain (10 Minutes)

Once the teams return, gather everyone into a tight, quiet circle. No one speaks. This is a grounding exercise to lower the energy and appreciate nature's cycle. The facilitator starts an action, passes it to the person on their right, and it moves around the circle like a wave.

The Wind: Rub your palms together gently. (The sound mimics leaves rustling).

The First Drops: Snap your fingers slowly, then faster.

The Downpour: Clap your hands rapidly against your thighs.

The Thunder: Stomp your feet heavily on the ground.

The Rain Decreases: Switch back to clapping thighs.

The Gentle Drizzle: Switch back to snapping fingers.

The Wind Dies Down: Rub palms together softly.

Silence: Stop completely. Stand in absolute silence for 30 seconds, listening to the actual nature around you

Description: Representation of the battle

I will never let a weak excuse destroy my strong dreams. The sound of water on river just happen because there are rocks there. The right mindset is the cure by itself. And there is No culture without community!

Once upon a time, there was a young man who believed that happiness was inside his phone. Every morning he woke up and checked social media. Every evening he went to sleep with his phone in his hand.

One day, he joined an international youth project. At first, he thought it would be boring because there was no fast internet and people wanted to spend time outside.

On the first day, they asked him to touch the soil. He smiled because he thought, “It’s just dirt.”

A few days later, they planted tomatoes, explored the forest, and learned how healthy soil gives life to everything around us. They also talked about digital waste and how people sometimes spend more time online than with real people.

One evening, while sitting around the fire, he looked up at the sky. There was no phone in his hand. There were only stars, the sound of the wind, and people sharing stories.

At that moment, he understood something.

A seed needs good soil, water, sunlight, and time to grow.

People are the same.

If we spend all our time looking at screens, we forget to grow. But when we spend time in nature, work together, and listen to each other’s stories, something inside us starts to grow again.

When the project finished, he went home with the same phone in his pocket, but a different heart.

He still used technology, but he also made time for nature, for people, and for himself.

Because he finally understood that the strongest connection is not WiFi.

The strongest connection is the one between people, nature, and our own soul. The end.

One of the oldest myths in northern Spain comes from the Basque Country. It tells the story of the Basajaun, whose name means "Lord of the Forest."

So share justice, to get justice back ❤️‍🔥

Sheppers are moving from the peaks to the coast.

Many children from the families forget their winter coats and this time is critical.

Three women volunteer.

Go up the mountain to recollect the coats.

However the Mountains don't forgive!

The women vanish in the mountains but the coats remained well kept in a cave half way down the path.

So the families will survive winter.

"Vente conmigo neña vamos a Xijón

Y veras las olas que bonitas son

Que bonitas son

Subir y bajar

Vente conmigo neña y veras la mar."

"Dile que no voy

Que no voy

Que no vaya.

Dile que no voy

A la fuente a por agua."

Carolina from España

Made in Hungary