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Ecosystem of
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Erasmus+ youth exchange
21. - 29. April 2026
Slovenia
Ecosystem of Sensations is a research-based Youth Exchange
that invites young people to explore perception, embodied awareness, and our relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural environment.
The project focuses on extended sensorial awareness, how we sense, perceive, and relate to the world when we slow down, pay attention, and allow our senses to expand beyond habitual, logical, or socially conditioned ways of knowing. Through this exploration, we open a space that is a poetic, experiential place of practice and research.
A place where we question how this relates to us
and therefore to the world around us.
How can being more aware makes us more sensitive?
How does being more sensitive contribute to the world around us?
In this way, Ecosystem of Sensations is not about learning ecology as a concept, but about experiencing ecological thinking through the body, perception, and relationship.
what is?
"When we speak about ecology, we are not only referring to environmental issues, but to the way systems interact, support, affect, and depend on one another. In this sense, the body itself can be understood as an ecosystem, and sensing as a process that happens in relationship with the land, the group, the social context, and the moment."
The project brings together somatic practices, movement and dance exploration, time in nature, ecopsychology, artistic research, and group processes. Rather than following a fixed program, the exchange is shaped as a shared field of research, where participants are invited to explore questions that matter to them and to co-create the process together.
As a Youth Exchange, the project emphasises active participation, responsibility, and co-facilitation. Participants are not only taking part in activities, but are also invited to help shape them by bringing questions, proposing explorations, sharing practices or skills, and supporting group reflection and integration. No prior facilitation experience is required; curiosity, presence, and willingness to engage are what matter most.
Research in this context is not academic. It is experiential and embodied.
The focus is on:
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noticing what becomes possible when we pay attention,
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staying close to sensation, perception, and experience,
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and exploring how individual and collective processes shift when we inquire together.
The group itself is understood as an ecosystem.
A living, relational space where different backgrounds, sensitivities, and perspectives meet, influence one another, and evolve over time.
Ecosystem of Sensations invites into a space to slow down, listen, experiment, and discover new ways of sensing and relating: to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us.
who can apply?
The topic that will run as a common thread throughout the project is Extended Sensorial Awareness and perception. Together with you, we would like to explore the possibilities of living that emerge when we allow our senses to expand beyond what is obvious, “normal,” and logical. This opens a naturally wide and sensitive space. Poetic, deeply aware and full of possibilities.
This Youth Exchange is open to young people aged 18–30 who are curious about sensorial experience, perception, and embodied ways of exploring themselves, others, and the world around them.
It is for those who feel drawn to slowing down, paying attention, and exploring their own questions and themes through lived experience.
Each participating country will be accompanied by
- one group leader, who may be over 30 years old and who will support the group throughout the exchange.
We aim to have 24 participants from Slovenia, Spain, Germany and Romania.
Participants must be over 17 years old and have a communicative level in English so that they can participate fully in the program.
This training course is funded through the Erasmus+ Programme, travel costs up to a specific maximum allowed amount will be fully reimbursed.
Slovenia: 28 EUR (56 EUR for Green Travel*)
Spain, Romania, Germany, Italy: 309 EUR (417 EUR for GT)
is it for you?
What to expect?
We like to combine somatics with nature and ecopsychology. We enjoy opening spaces of depth, vulnerability, and authenticity, while also offering plenty of movement and dance exploration.
As a Youth Exchange, this project opens a space where you are more actively engaged in shaping what will happen during our time together and how it unfolds. We would like to offer a field of research, exploration, and therapeutic and artistic inquiry, where you can bring your questions, offer your skills, and invite the group into something you would like to explore.
In this sense, each participant is also a co-facilitator of the process. Through your questions, curiosities, and presence, you will help form and shape the program together with us.
We are especially inviting young people who feel inspired by this combination of sensorial awareness, ecology, and creative exploration. You might already be expressing yourself through art, movement, youth work, activism, or other creative or caring practices — or you might simply be someone who is curious to explore your own themes, questions, and ways of being together with others.
We will hold and support the overall process, while the diversity of experiences, sensitivities, and perspectives each person brings becomes an essential part of the shared research. Everyone’s presence and way of engaging matters and helps shape what we discover together.
supportive team
Živa is an anthropologist, manual therapist, and researcher of somatic practices and contact improvisation.
Her work unfolds at the intersection of embodied awareness, relational sensing, and ecological ways of being. Her approach is grounded in touch, movement, spatial awareness, and subtle sensorial attention as gateways into inquiry and shared experience. Rather than transmitting fixed methods, she supports open research spaces where processes can emerge, where questions are welcomed, and where awareness becomes a shared field of exploration.
Nayeli is a psychologist working privately as a therapist with a Gestalt experiential psychotherapy approach. She has been a trainer in the field of non-formal education for more than 15 years. In the somatic and dance field, she is deeply inspired by contact improvisation, which has shaped her exploration of movement and its somatic approach beyond the dance studio. Having been actively engaged in the practice since 2017, she continues to investigate how this form expands her view on life.
"I am curious how to offer and hold space, where creativity and inspiration can blossom. I am interested in spaces where we can support each other's ideas and therefore dive into collective inspiration. To be sensitive and sensible is a map for exploration of new terrains in this wide ecosystem of togetherness."
last drop of info
Applications deadline: 21th of Februar at 12pm
Selection results: 28th of Februar
Arrival day: 21th of April by 7pm
Start of the program: 22th of April
Last day of the program: 28th of April
Departure day: 29th of April by noon
