WELLCORE: Autumn Urban Gathering

WELLCORE: Autumn Urban Gathering

(WELLbeing, mental health, COnnection and REsilience)

📅 September 24, 2026, 17:30 – 20:30

📍 HOURSPACE, "Cosmos" Hall (18 Dyakon Ignatiy St., Sofia)

Why are we gathering?

Working with young people demands a great deal from those who do it—attention, presence, and emotional energy.

Yet, the topic of their own well-being rarely makes it onto the agenda.

WELLCORE is a European partnership developing a training model for youth workers focused on well-being, connection, and resilience—using experiential methods, movement, theater, circus arts, and group work. Impact Drive leads the development of the project's youth ecosystem strategy and is responsible for the Bulgarian component of the training program.

On July 28, we are taking part of this program outdoors. It will be an informal gathering in the park, during the peak holiday month of the year.

What will we be doing? Together, we will apply elements from the training:

Future Thinking – how we approach the future in youth work

Civic Circus – body, trust, and group dynamics

Reflection using metaphor cards – a tool for self-analysis and group work

Resilience, self-care, and sustainability – practices applicable to daily work

We will also discuss the essentials: how to put these tools into practice, how to communicate with diverse groups of young people, and how to integrate care into the work itself rather than leaving it for last. We will explain what a "nurturing session" is and how each of you can organize one on your own.

Who is leading?

The facilitators are participants from the WELLCORE "Training of Trainers" program held in Erlangen, Germany, in collaboration with the Impact Drive team.

We plan to issue Youthpass certificates.

Please register using the short form so we know to expect you: https://forms.gle/wWY1FJeNWxaeuTcE8