YOUR HEART BEATS
Creative approaches to resilience and mental wellbeing
An Erasmus+ small-scale partnership exploring mental health, resilience and burnout prevention through movement, creative expression and non-formal adult learning.
Your Heart Beats
Project at a glance
2022-1-HU01-KA210-ADU-000083500
KA210-ADU — Small-scale Partnership in Adult Education
Origo Workshop, Hungary
Sports Diagnostic Center Šabac (SDCS)
Hungary & Portugal
2022–2023
Participation through cooperation with SDCS
About the project
Your Heart Beats explored how adult educators and professionals in helping roles can strengthen their own resilience and mental wellbeing while developing practical ways to support the people they work with.
A central methodology was the Tamalpa Life/Art Process, an expressive-arts approach that brings together movement, visual art, creative writing and reflection. The project combined residential learning, online learning and exchange of practices between partner organisations.
The learning process included two international training courses:
Your Heart Beats I
16–24 July 2023
Bátonyterenye, Hungary
Your Heart Beats II
19–27 October 2023
Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal
Why it mattered
The project responded to a challenge common in education and helping professions: people who regularly support others may themselves face stress, exhaustion and burnout.
Rather than approaching wellbeing only theoretically, Your Heart Beats used movement, art, body awareness, reflection and shared practice to explore resilience in everyday and professional life.
MONOMIT connection
Your Heart Beats was not a formal MONOMIT project. Sports Diagnostic Center Šabac (SDCS), a long-standing partner organisation of MONOMIT, was the formal Serbian partner in the project. Several people connected with MONOMIT participated through cooperation with SDCS.
Training course I — Hungary
Dragana Drljačić — Serbian team coordinator and participant
Magdalena Dimitrijević — participant
Ksenija Živković — participant
Training course II — Portugal
Dragana Drljačić — Serbian team coordinator and participant
Ivona Radić — participant
Jozefa Jakšić — participant
A link in MONOMIT’s development
The experience became part of the professional background and collaborative network from which MONOMIT later developed its own work in wellbeing, experiential learning and international cooperation.
Project outputs
Mental Wellness online course
Online learning focused on resilience and burnout prevention for adult educators.
Facilitator Toolkit
A practical toolkit developed through the project, bringing together activities for wellbeing, resilience and community learning.
Key themes
Recognition
Certificate of participation / attendance
Project gallery
Training I — Hungary
Training II — Portugal
Serbian team
Learning activity
Learn more
Official project page
Explore the Your Heart Beats project, learning process and resources on the Origo Workshop website.