How Berlin as a 2-month short term ESC volunteer widen her knowledge about empathy
Updated: Oct 20, 2022
Updated: Oct 20, 2022
How Berlin as a 2-month short term ESC volunteer widen her knowledge about empathy
Updated: Nov 9, 2021
Adolescence is a very important period in which the individual prepares for the adult role and begins to form his identity, but it is also a period that includes the risk of the emergence of important mental illnesses. Today's youth live in a period of different and faster changes than in previous periods and are exposed to technological developments intensively. These rapid changes and developments can cause a number of negative effects in their lives as well as positive when not supported correctly. While many young people try to connect with the virtual relationships offered by technology, the lack of social interaction makes them feel lonely. They also do not know the right resources to strengthen their mental health or receive psychosocial support. For this reason, they need to be properly guided and informed about where to find the psychosocial support they seek.
October 10 is recognized as "World Mental Health Day" by the World Federation of Mental Health. This year's meeting of World Mental Health Day is “World Youth and Mental Health”.
ADVICES
1. Quality Sleep
Sleep is a very important time period for both our body and mind. Because during sleep, our body and soul rest; is renewed. Insomnia negatively affects our physical health, especially our mental health. Due to irregular and poor quality sleep, the immune system health of the person may weaken, and stress accumulation may occur in the body. For this reason, it is necessary to adopt a regular and quality sleep pattern for better mental health.
2. Regular Exercise
Exercising has numerous health benefits. One of them is that it supports our mental health. So much so that many scientific studies show that regular exercise has an antidepressant effect. If you want to have better mental health, you can improve your mental health by exercising regularly; you can feel more energetic and fit.
3. Healthy Eating
A healthy diet is very important for better mental health. Because the foods we eat do not only affect our physical health; indirectly determine how we feel. For this reason, he can have a better body by eating healthy; however, you can also improve your mental health.
4. Meditation
Meditation is extremely effective teaching about coping with stress. Because this teaching, which helps us to quiet our minds and remove bad thoughts from our minds, also provides the emergence of feelings such as peace and calmness. Therefore, you can make meditation a habit of life to start the day positively and to end the day with good feelings.
Çağrı Demir
ESC Volunteer @ ICDET
Updated: Oct 2, 2021
The Youth Exchange project titled “Prop@genda” took place in the beautiful touristic village of Arnaia, Khalkidhiki, Greece. From the second until the thirteenth of August five participants from six countries (Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia and Bulgaria) took part in activities of non-formal education and artistic workshops that addressed topics of the existent political propaganda in social networks (processing and analysis of such messages), strengthened the European identity of young people, broke any prejudices and stereotypes and created an intercultural dialogue on the pathogenesis of propaganda in different countries of the European Union.
After the first two days of ice breaking activities where we got to know each other better, we had a guest called Ana who was a well establish journalist and she thought us what propaganda is, its history, depiction of art and how to recognize it. In addition we were taught the notion of fake news, what their existence means in social media, and how it can determine whole voting outcomes due to rapid propagation. She was with us for four days and we did some fun and different activities like debates on social media, sketches, an outdoor treasure hunting in which we got to see and learn more about Arnaia and its history and we also did some more chill games. One favorite activity of mine was when we were split into 5 different groups and had full access to the beautiful stage in the educational center we were accommodated in.
We had the task of recreating a news broadcast and each team had a director, an editor, journalists, newscaster and a guest commentator. On our free day we went to the beach on a island close to Stratoni and we went there by a boat, we stayed there for almost the whole day and we could swim to the others islands that were near us.
Finally, the last day came. That day we presented our final task which was to make a video about raising awareness against propaganda. After that we played a goodbye game where everyone got to write a note to the others from the group and give them something to remember. I don’t know if the others cried but I most certainly did. Afterwards we just spent all the time we had left together creating memories we wont ever forget.
by Ognyan Gabrovski