THE PILGRIMAGE TO SUSTAINABILITY
Learning through movement, place and sustainability
An international youth-worker training along the Way of St. Francis, combining walking, experiential learning, reflection and sustainability in a moving learning environment.
Pilgrimage / Way of St. Francis
Project at a glance
2025-1-IT03-KA153-YOU-000302392
Chiusi della Verna → Assisi, Italy
2–14 September 2025
Associazione Libero Pensatore APS
Partner organisation
About the project
The Pilgrimage to Sustainability was designed as a youth-worker training “on the go”: learning took place while participants walked along the Way of St. Francis through Tuscany and Umbria.
The project connected sustainability with personal development, mental wellbeing, reflection and experiential learning. Walking was not treated simply as transport between training locations, but as part of the educational methodology itself. The route, natural environment, encounters, changing places and daily realities of travelling became part of the learning process.
The concept had previously been tested through the Walking the Inner Path project and was then developed in 2025 into a stand-alone Erasmus+ KA153-YOU project coordinated by Libero Pensatore.
Learning through the journey
The training explored sustainability through direct experience rather than only through classroom discussion.
Participants travelled through rural landscapes, forests, villages and local communities, combining experiential and outdoor sessions with reflection, group learning and encounters with local initiatives. The wider methodology connected sustainability, mental health, self-development and the question of how youth workers can maintain sustainable professional practice while supporting others.
MONOMIT’s participation
MONOMIT participated as a partner organisation, with four members taking part in the international youth-worker training.
Ivona Radić · Mira Vujanić · Tijana Ivanović · Mihailo Stefanović
The experience contributed to MONOMIT’s developing interest in experiential learning, sustainability, nature-based education and learning through movement and place.
From mobility to publication
YOUTH WALKER
The learning journey continued beyond the mobility through the publication Youth Walker, to which MONOMIT member Ivona Radić contributed an article.
Youth Walker is not a MONOMIT publication. It is available through the official publisher’s purchase page.
Key themes
Recognition
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Learn more about the Pilgrimage to Sustainability and the walking-based learning approach developed by Libero Pensatore.