DREAMING THE WORLD TO COME – Ecological Consciousness and Human Development for Youth Workers
ERASMUS + CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Training course for Youth workers
DREAMING THE WORLD TO COMEEcological Consciousness and Human Development for Youth Workers
Gudevitsa village, Bulgaria
01 – 10.09.2026
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DREAMING THE WORLD TO COME is an international Erasmus + program aimed at people who are, or strive to become, agents of cultural (r)evolution and social transformation. Humans who, with their daily actions, are models in their community and leaders of the awakening and change in the world.
During the program, we will drop down into our wildest dreams and deepest imagination.
Not to escape from, nor to “save” the world, but because vision, hope, and courage are exactly what we need in these times, when so much around us is darkening, when ecosystems are dying and political tensions are rising.
Let us be radically visionary, radically honest, and radically alive together. Let us rediscover what it means to be human, and to be part of this ecosystem called Earth.
IMAGINE…
… what if you could let go of the voices in your head saying “I should”, “I have to”, or “I cannot”?
… what could your life look like if you dared to dream, to truly dream without holding back?
… what world could we create if we followed our deepest longings?
METHODOLOGY
With methods that include, and go beyond ecopsychology, we will connect with ourselves, each other and with the other-than-human and more-than-human world.
We will work with Bill Plotkin’s Nature-based Map of the Human Psyche, discovering and cultivating our four facets of wholeness:
- North – Heart-Centered Thinking, Nurturing, and Generating
- East – Compassion, Full-presence Sensing, Lightness, Play, and Wisdom
- South – Full-bodied emotions, Belonging and Life Energy
- West – Romance, Deep Imagination and Dreams
This training course is highly experiential, emotionally engaging, and nature-based.
Practices include:
- movement
- solo time in nature
- conversation across species borders
- sensorial awakening
- council
- dreamwork
- deep imagery
- embodiment
- journaling
WHY THIS MATTERS
As youthworkers, we can give only what we have. The quality of accompaniment we can offer young people is directly connected to our own aliveness, authenticity and relationship to life. If we feel depleted, hopeless and disconnected, how can we accompany and inspire the young people who are growing up in these times?
Therefore, cultivating our own humanness and capacity, tending to our grief, our anger, our fear is essential.
Finding hope, purpose and belonging is essential. This is the main aim of DREAMING THE WORLD TO COME.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
This course is for you if you:
- actively work with young people
- are open to experiential learning
- are curious about imagination and ecological belonging
- are willing to engage personally
- are comfortable with emotional depth and reflection
- want to reconnect with your longing and aliveness
Applications are open for youth workers, educators, teachers, social workers, councelore, therapists and trainers from any EU Member state (Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, France, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden) or any of the associated with the Erasmus + Programme countries (North Macedonia, Serbia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey).
Participants must be over 18 years and have a good level of English as the entire course will be in English.
AIM OF THE PROGRAM
To provide innovative ways and methods to provoke deep nature connection and eco-awakening, and take steps towards personal transformation in a more wholesome and connected way. It will also aim at empowering the participants to offer these methods to the various groups and individuals they work with and become agents of visionary change within their communities.
OBJECTIVES
- To develop new skills, competences and ideas in facilitating the development of deep nature connection;
- To develop participant’s knowledge in nature-based human development by learning and practicing the principles and models of eco-centric development;
- To provide an opportunity to experience a space of safety, intimacy, and profound connection in which personal exploration is encouraged and supported by community;
- To engage and guide participants through innovative processes of personal transformation aiming at eco-awakening;
- To inspire in the participants a shift in values and worldviews that will foster a deep nature connection, empathy to all creatures and a sense of oneness with the natural world;
- To support participant’s connection to their sense of responsibility for the environment and Earth’s future.
At the core of the program, we will create time and space for deep and prolonged connection with the wild others. Participants will be invited to stay alone in Nature for 24h of wild conversation, prayer, deep listening and all else that might arise. You will be invited (optional) to fast during this time, and to stay without a tent, fully exposed to the mysteries of the world. There will be safety measures in process in order to ensure that everyone returns physically safe and wildy dangerous.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES AND DEADLINE
If you want to participate in this training course, we invite you to fill in the application form available at this link: APPLICATION FORM
* Application process includes recording a short video of yourself
The deadline for applications submission is 20 June 2026 (included).
DETAILED INFORMATION AND PROCEDURES
Please read carefully the detailed Call for participants for more information about the Commitments, Logistics, Venue and Administration!
Detailed Call for participants – DREAMING THE WORLD TO COME – Call for Participants
CONTACT
Galena Tsvetkova – Project Coordinator
galena.tsvetkova@gmail.com
+359 888 566 655
SOBRIETY POLICY
We ask that you refrain from using any consciousness-altering substance (alcohol, cannabis, any drug, etc.) for the whole duration of the course. This is because the program will be offering nature-based methods of consciousness shifting for which your whole mental and physical capacities will be required. By applying to the course, you commit to respect this agreement.
GUIDES TEAM
OGNIAN GADOULAROV (Bulgaria) is a passionate naturalist, rock climber, and expert in wildlife, birds, and forests. For 11 years, he has been working in the field of non-formal education and personal development.
Ognian supports people to unfold their full potential in life and to discover themselves. He is a guide with interests and experience in meditation, yoga, and energy practices. His favorite topics are personal development, self-discovery, responsible consumption, human-nature reciprocity. He lives as an activist for cultural evolution, re-sacredtising life and reconnecting people with more-than-human-world. As a participant in the Great Turning, he likes to be known as Fire of Life and The Tree Listener, dedicated to the Great work for fair future for all living and nonliving beings on Earth.
Оgnian is certified through Nature-based Wholing and Self-healing Wild Mind Training Programme (WMTP) at Bill Plotkin’s Animas Valley Institute, Colorado, USA
TONI MALLACH (Sweden) is a violinist, dancer and connection weaver. They are a curious human being, fascinated by communication: telling stories through dance and music, finding stories through improvisation theatre and listening to stories through community building practices such as deep listening and non-violent communication.
Toni dreams of a social and ecological regeneration of human society and planet Earth. They wish for humanity to find back into the ecological system. This dream led them to live in an eco-community and to become part of the Global Ecovillage Network. With the aim of spreading new ways of Being, they share their passion as a trainer and facilitator. Their life mission is to create spaces for love and laughter, for feeling and expressing, listening and holding and daring to step into the unknown.
Toni holds a masters degree in classical music performance from the Royal conservatory of Brussels and an Ecovillage Design Certificate from Gaia Education.