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Don't be afraid! Nature is "Our Home"!
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The term “Ecophobia”, means a meaningless but well-conditioned reaction given against the natural forms. Also in Clinical Psychology this term means “the fear one has for his own home”. According to the data taken from European Commission database, in bigger cities, rising sound pollution increases the displeasure of the city residents. In cities with green spaces, pleasure rate is very high. This shows the importance of green spaces in city life.Why we want to run the project is to show nature’s effect on self-development and youth’s self-development, that nature influences the way people approach the difficulties in their daily life and that nature particularly influences the life quality of a person and their social life, also these effects matter for the society and it’s own peace; We also aim to realize that nature is a part of us, thus in city life, day by day getting away from the nature influences negatively by socially, psychologically and physically. Therefore we aim to realize and disseminate by both experiencing and discussing how positively living with nature and being engaged to it affects humanbeings. We aim to be one of the leading projects that change first the individual, then the society’s life by bringing nature into the life.Our project will take place in Ankara, 13-23 August 2016, with 36 participants/Leaders (5 participants/ 1 Group Leader per each country) and with the support of 1 psycologist/trainer, in total 37 people from 6 different countries (Turkey, Romania, Greece, Poland, Lithuania, Italy). Our participants will be at the age between 16-26 and experienced and/or motivated about environment and nature activities. In our project we aim those;-Informing and raising awarenes of youngsters about Ecophobia and the impacts of ecophobia- Raising awareness and informing about “Nature Deficiency Syndrome” the youngsters, Making them to understand the importance of being away from/in touch with the nature.- Exploration of the youngsters on their own fears and emotions, Having the ability to manage them and self realization.- Getting to know about the Europe’s city life, nature policies, and the relation of citizens with the nature in their daily life.- Increasing the capasity of youth workers to tackle against ecophobia and increasing their skills and knowledge in order to work with youngsters to be able to make them engaged to the nature. -Informing youngsters and youth workers about Solution Focused Approach technique and how to use this technique optimally-Developing Solutions against ecophobia and increasing youngsters ecological skills and knowledge-Developing the ability of youngsters and youth workers to understand the nature and its components and its integrity.During the project, we will have team work activities, Outdoor activities in order to make participants to know about and experience the nature more with such non-formal tools like Visual Presentations and works, Team Building Activities, Role-playing games, Quiz, Debate, Simulation games.Thus, They will get to know about Ecophobia and will gain this positive nature aspect and aspect of how nature and its components influences our life. Also they will raise the awareness about the nature and gain knowled about the policies and environmental issues in different countries of Europe. They will also have the chance to know about Solution Focused Approach and by this, they will improve the competence of solution focused thinking in approach to problems.Thus, they will envision themselves and will be more active in their daily life with their self happiness and peace.
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