What happens when theater enters the classroom — not as performance, but as a way of learning? La Cantera Exploraciones Teatrales, a theater company based in Spain, has been exploring this question in...

We live in a time of growing disconnection. Polarization, digital acceleration, and the erosion of shared spaces are reshaping how young people experience belonging, identity, and participation. In ma...

Giulia is a 23-year-old Italian volunteer currently doing her European Solidarity Corps placement with Associazione Antigóna, one of WellSpaces' leading   organisations. In this piece, she reflec...

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....

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 ...

This is the central question behind The Living Classroom for Policy Makers , the policy brief published in March 2026 by the AECED project (Aesthetic and Embodied learning for democracy), funded under...

Leadership in the body Intention This training emerged from a growing sense in the field that leadership is often over-described and under-experienced. In many professional contexts, leadership is fra...

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 ...

This story doesn't begin in Paris. It begins with a group of people who had already found each other — educators, artists, researchers, practitioners — who had already spent enough time together to kn...

Welcome to WellSpaces A note from the WellSpaces team WellSpaces began before there was a platform, in conversations between organisations that were already doing the work — each in their own place, e...