My Personal Everest is a project composed of two Training Courses on art as a form of self-knowledge through self-expression and the discovery of inner strength and skills such as resilience, emotional competencies, and flexibility.
The project has been implemented in Albania in November 2022 and in Hungary in April 2023. The main focus of the project is that we all are artists because the process of Creation is something connected with us. Overtime we tend to forgot it and dismiss it because our inner thoughts are telling us that art is not for us, that we are not good enough and many other devaluating whispers to our ears.
The main reason why we want to carry out this project is the common concern on mental health issues arose more intensely during the pandemic.
Worldwide we are assisting in a parallel silent pandemic, called demotivation, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and eating disorders, hitting the population and mainly youth.
So the project will meet a double need:
● Needs to reinforce the youth workers' personal and professional competencies with new methods tailored to the discovery of self-care and the empowerment of inner competencies and of new tools and methods;
● Needs to reinforce and support, through this path, youth (indirect beneficiaries) facing the recent psychological diseases connected with the lack of emotional awareness, expression, contact, and emotional management.
