All about the burnout

Here we are with the continuation of the project “Out with burn out” which was led through 15 months by 4 organizations from: Poland, Sweden, Romania and Moldova. The continuation of the project is being co-created by 3 organisations from Lithuania, Sweden and Poland due to the possibility of reaching a wider audience potentially struggling with burnout.

Burnout is the result of the accumulation of long-term unresolved stress, the consequences of which can be seen in the areas of physiology, emotions, relationships with others, etc. This process reduces well-being and has a negative impact on health. Some of its consequences are: a tendency to isolation, deterioration of interpersonal relationships, loss of interest in previous passions, difficulties in dealing with emotions, lower productivity and efficiency at work, problems with concentration, memory and creative thinking.

The ‘All about burnout’ project focuses on increasing the knowledge about burnout, and its symptoms – how to recognize them, what they are and how to manage social burnout.

The main goal of the project is to provide social workers with the tools to combat burnout, keep their motivation high and stay in work instead of moving to redundancy or to the NEET social group (consisting of people outside of employment and education).

In order to achieve the goal, the following actions are set:

increasing the capacity of social workers to use anti-burnout practices;
developing a mindfulness (meditation and mindfulness practice) teaching and e-course for young people and youth workers;
measuring the impact of mindfulness practices on youth workers and young people participating in programmes;
establishing a group of Mindfulness instructors in the area of youth work;
increasing awareness of burnout in the third sector.

Together with the consortium we will organize three Joint Staff Trainings, each of them will be focused on different objectives, learning:

the new attitude to work, assertiveness etc – organized by the ISPC (Lithuania)
the ETS Competence Model due to which we will be working on chosen competences in order to minimize the risk of social burnout – organized by LEVEL UP (Poland)
new methods to overcome the problem by mindfulness, yoga, meditation, alternative medicine and get back to the previous harmony in order to be able to provide other actions in the third sector without the need of changing the profession – organized by Well-Being Lab (Sweden).

The project implementation will empower educators and staff to counteract burnout. It will provide the Association’s staff, beneficiaries, partners, target groups and third sector leaders with the right tools when it occurs.