DASS: Dance Against Stressful Situations
Aims to use dance and other forms of art as an empowerment tool for young people to cope with situations of stress and anxiety due to traumatic events.
In the frame of the Erasmus+ KA2, DASS is a cooperation partnership that wants to deal with challenges affecting youth, creating an educational path through training applying therapeutic effects of dance and other forms of art, associated with experiences lived through other artistic disciplines, divided into different modules.
The project aims to develop a creative approach that may act in the long-term to benefit young people and their well-being while tackling the negative impacts of the current crisis through the realisation and development of its results.
Objectives
Direct objectives on the beneficiaries participating in the project:
Foster creative and artistic responses for youth living in difficult situations;
Develop the ability of self-expression;
Develop artistic sensibility while promoting well-being and tackling mental and physical stress of youth;
Foster educational digital tools among young people, creating a safe virtual learning environment;
Direct objectives on the very implementation of such a project
Enhance competences of youth workers through the training on innovative methodologies;
Providing long term benefits for young people by applying methodologies of dance and artistic tools;
Promoting social inclusion, diversity and tolerance, as well as the intercultural dialogue;
Improve capacity building of youth workers and enhance high quality of youth work;
Develop artistic sensibility while promoting well-being and tackling mental and physical stress of youth;
Results
Dancing and artistic empowering training Open Educational Resource
An educational path developed through training, applying dance and movement methodologies associated with experiences lived and other artistic disciplines.
The aim of this result is to develop a creative way to respond to the traumatic consequences of the pandemic, to empower young people, including NEETs and those disadvantaged situations, from 16 to 30 years of age. It will be developed through online sessions based on non-formal education, dance and movement methodologies and artistic expressions.
DASS Booklet
Consists of a Booklet addressed to youth workers, that contain good practices, methodologies, activities, and practical exercises that they can use with young people to reduce the stress caused by stressful situations and unpredictable phenomena, such as COVID-19 and lockdown, and allow them regaining a mental and physical equilibrium and tackle distress and negative feelings. The Booklet will contain the collection of methodologies, good practices, and activities resulting from the dancing and artistic empowering training and the Learning Training and Teaching Activities, adjusted, and improved. Furthermore, it includes a section with links to videos with tutorials of the activities and techniques to apply.
App Mind-yourself
A mobile application consisting of activities, strategies, tips and reminders to be used individually by youth to help them reduce stress and develop strategies to deal with stressors as they present themselves in daily life. The app’s contents will combine mindfulness, art, and dance. This content will be provided in several different formats – to maintain the interest of its users and to cater for the preferences and needs of different individuals. I twill be a self-help resource that can be used individually, without a youth worker, at any time and in any place. Thus, this app will enable young people to benefit from the project results on a more individual level.
News
Body and mind connected to cope with stress
In January, CEIPES ETS tested the prototype version of the Mind-yourself app, the final result of the DASS project. More than 40 Italian young people had access to the prototype in the Android version of the Mind yourself app. With an initial session in which...
Art therapy turns digital in KrakoW
Partners of the DASS consortium met for the 4th time in Krakow, hosted by the Polish partner Diversity HUB. On 28 – 29 September, the consortium had the opportunity to revise the contents created until now and to plan the development and release of the Mind-yourself...
A valuable tool to use dance & arts working with youth
The consortium of the DASS project is pleased to share with the youth workers Europe-wide its last creation: DASS Booklet. The Booklet is thought to be a practical guide and a handy tool for youth workers to assist young people in regaining a mental and physical...
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