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Reflections, frameworks and questions that emerge from our practice. This is the space where we name what happens, we elaborate what arises, and we conceptualise from shared experience.

What if belonging is not the outcome of participation, but its starting point?
Through exchanges, local initiatives and shared experiences across Europe, the CONNECTED project explored how trust, relationships and community shape young people’s wellbeing and democratic engagement. This story traces a journey where connection itself became both the method and the message—and where participation began not with activity, but with the experience of being seen....
#civic-participation
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The Work That Doesn’t Fit in the Day
What happens when care starts to outpace the person giving it?

In a residential week in the west of Ireland, youth workers, social workers, and care professionals gathered not to learn how to do more — but how to stay present without burning out. Between silence, shared meals, and practices of mindful attention, something subtle began to shift: empathy stopped being a resource to manage and became something to understand differently.

This article traces a training where exhaustion was not treated as failure, but as information. Where compassion was explored not as softness, but as a way of staying in relationship without disappearing into it. And where the question quietly guiding the week was simple, and difficult: how do we remain available to others without leaving ourselves behind?
#mental-health #wise-agency #youth-policy
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ParamitaLab is a terrain of practice where the common folds to articulate the possible. This archive gathers traces of that process: elaborations that emerge without pretension of a closed system.

There is no fixed periodicity: each elaboration appears when human and conceptual conditions allow.

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