Erasmus+ International Training Course:
Finding Treasures for Self-Healing

We provide a trining course for professionals in education and training, including staff and teachers/trainers in educational institutions of all levels, as well as staff from companies working in the field of education and training.

The basis of our work are the results of Aaron Antonovskys (Sociologist 1923 -1994) field research on which he founded the new term salutogenesis. With this new term A. Antonovsky has directed his main attention to those factors which lead to a healthy or health improving development. The salutogenic approach directs attention systematically to recognizing and integrating those factors which contribute in staying healthy or improving health. In this context health is seen in a wider sense (WHO) and not only as the absence of illness.
In a systematic application of what salutogenesis means, new communicative faculties are acquired which improve the (re)discovery and apppreciation of resources, strategies to cope with crises and potentials. In this way, the image of one-self can change: from the image of one-self as passively experiencing to acquiring confidence in one’s creative abilities. This covers the whole field of life (health, coping with life and crises, developing one’s own creativity). The international transcultural exchange improves the possibilities of development and strengthens the transcultural capabilities.
This positive approach is without restriction applicable in adult education. It implies to look more for the success in learning, becoming aware and appreciating individual capability and abilities, respecting individual personalities, stressing responsibility for one’s own life and strengthening the ability for lifelong learning. In this way the possibilities of individual development can be improved. At the same time this enables us to master the challenges of our time.

AIMS:

- to acquaint participants with the theory of salutogenesis
- to transfer the understanding of salutogenesis to practical life in the sense of getting to know oneself
-through self experience the central terms will be experienced (coherence, resilience, resources for resistance
-learning methods in order to apply these experiences to practical work in individual cases.

PARTICIPANTS GAIN:
- improved recognition of their own resources, potentials, abilities
- positive view of oneself
- improved feeling of one’s own value and coherence
- in this way improving transcultural capabilities
- attentiveness towards oneself and others
- self- responsibitity
- confidence in your ability to act
- freedom to make your own decisions
- reduction/removal of creeds which block action
- new competence in dialogue and communication
- improved competence in further education

These acquired abilities lead in professional life to competence in realizing the potentials of the individual. They improve development and achievement (individual and in groups), by lack of fear and stress. Improved health is made possible.

THE ORGANISATION:
ImPuls- Forum for Health and Prevention is an institution which has offered adult education and health prevention for thirty years. All lecturers have acquired experience in adult education over the decades. They come from the fields of education, psychotherapy, medicine, health and health education. In our work we refer to earlier experience in diverse international workshops and have had a Grundtvig  Learning Partnership in this field. (Europe`s Women - In the Center of Life)

We are offering two different times for this training:

17th – 24th April 2016,  7 days

The training will be held in Englisch.

Course fee: According to the Erasmus+ guide, 70 euros / training day