How “Emotional Intelligence in Youth Work” anticipated the need for sustainable youth work systems and why it matters to WellSpaces today A result of European cooperation in the youth field to support...

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?

Supporting Parents’ Expertise in Erasmus+ An idea of Biedrība ideA (Latvia) in cooperation with partner organisations from Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Austria, Italy, Hungary The intention ...

Networks don't begin with websites. They begin with people who recognize something in each other — a shared question, a common direction, a sense that the work would be stronger if done together. Well...