MOAVE - psychology in movement

26/04/2026

Sense of community
Sense of being
Sense of time, space, stillness, hope …

Sense of you watching me and with this comes
Sense of acceptance
Sense of simplicity…
Sense of trust

that I too belong!

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Day 3 and 4 of Ecosystem of Sensations youth exchange



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23/04/2026

We started our ecosystem of sensations youth exchange with questions:

how the body knows before language

how attention changes reality

how sensing creates connection

how nature is felt, not observed

how silence, movement, touch, sound reshape perception.

There are no answers,
only exploration.

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Senses are doorways to wisdom.



📷 Nayeli Špela, Živa Jerman

20/04/2026

The Desert, Compass of Stillness
Erasmus+ training course
November, 2025 in Slovenia
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Its important that what we experienced doesn’t stay as a memory in our bodies, but can offer ripples to our communities. ​
The desert, as we encountered it, was not only a metaphor but a felt experience, a space of pause, emptiness, and presence. Within that space, something essential had room to surface.

This booklet is a reflection on the Erasmus+ training course exploring the metaphor of the “Desert” as a space of transition, uncertainty, and transformation. It brings together the core ideas of the project, participants’ testimonials, the structure and flow of the week, and a closing reflection on the experience.

It also highlights why working with themes of liminality and embodied awareness is important in youth work, and introduces the facilitators who held the process.

Hope reading it you can find some inspiration.
Let us know how it lands.
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Trainers: .takacova

You can download this booklet on
www.moave.si/thedesert
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This training course was funded through the Erasmus+ Programme

24/03/2026

▪️ 7+ Senses Project Results ▪️

Exploring Sensory Awareness as the Foundation for Emotional Resilience
Erasmus+ training course
11. - 19. June 2025
Slovenia

As one of the project results, we created this booklet.
It shares the experiences and learning outcomes of the 7+ Senses Erasmus+ training course. It was created to document the process, insights, and methods explored during the training and to inspire others working with young people and groups.

Inside the booklet, you will find an overview of the project and its goals, the results and learning outcomes, and reflections from participants who took part in the training. It also presents the benefits of working with sensory awareness and body-based practices, particularly in the context of youth work and group facilitation.

The booklet includes a description of the flow of the training week, showing how the learning process unfolded through movement, reflection, connection with nature, and group exploration.

By sharing these experiences, we hope to inspire youth workers, educators, and facilitators to explore sensory awareness, embodied learning, and nature-based practices in their own work with young people and communities.

The booklet you can find in the link below.
www.moave.si/7plussenses

24/03/2026

Looking back on last year's journey.
Such deep topics we explored in our trainings.
This one was about senses, listening, and perception.
Beyond what is obvious, as one of the most regulating tools for our nervous system and capacity to hold.

Really grateful it happened.

7+ Senses

Exploring Sensory Awareness as the Foundation for Emotional Resilience
Erasmus+ training course
11–19 June 2025, Slovenia

"By refining our ability to sense and respond, we enlarge our capacity for deep listening, reciprocity, and attunement. By this, we are inviting a more welcoming, rooted, and present way of being. With ourselves and with the world around us."

This is a story of our journey.
Slow. Steady. Grounded.
Wide enough to perceive.
Soft enough to not question.
Present with care, so we could acknowledge what was not met before.

Only what we experience can be passed on and shared with others authentically and as whole embodied knowledge.

What a beautiful journey this was!

photos Nayeli Špela

02/03/2026

New training course is out!!
👇🏻

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Ecotone - knowledge of the Edge
Erasmus+ training course
2. - 10. June 2026
Slovenia

Knowledge of the Edge is a 7-day Erasmus+ training course that explores the edge as a dynamic, living space, a fertile intersection where youth work, culture, somatics and ecology meet and inform one another. Inspired by the ecological concept of the ecotone (the transitional zone between ecosystems where diversity and resilience thrive) this training approaches boundaries not as rigid separations, but as spaces of encounter, dialogue, and growth.

The intention of this training is to support youth workers, facilitators, and educators in exploring and practising embodied, relational, and interdisciplinary approaches for working with young people at the edges of experience, learning, and identity.

We aim to have 27 participants from Slovenia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Romania and Hungary.

Applications deadline: 29th of March
Selection results: 4th of April

More info: www.moave.si/ecotone

03/02/2026

Our next project is out! 🥳

Ecosystem of Sensations
Erasmus+ youth exchange
21.-29. April 2026 in Slovenian Forest

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.

More info about the project
www.moave.si/ecosystemofsensations

Share with friends who are curious, would like to share woth others their own ideas and experiences relevant to this topic. And if it resonates, apply 🤗

We are looking forward for this creative research space of nutritious ecosystem.

“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.”

31/01/2026

Sometimes winter feels like long stretched stillness.
Sometimes it feels like relief from the pressure of doing.
Sometimes we want to cover ourselves in soft fabric that will sustain us.
But overall, winter is a chance to practice our flexibility, elasticity ob belonging in the present moment.
More will be done when it is time.
More will happen when it is ready.

For now, .

12/12/2025

The Desert - Compass of Stillness
Erasmus+ training course happened in late Autumn in Slovenian Forest.

Every project is special on its own way.
This one allowed us to explore stillness, silence and waiting as a way to address periods of Void and ‎Unknown.

We explored different qualities of how we anticipate further steps when there is not yet time for continuation.
Allowing meeting with stillness as a quality of presence, silent observer witnessing what already is.

Project addressed questions how to support others in such periods. And most precious way is to offer your own availability, stay grounded in all the directions.

Here is our journey.

Thank you Magda, Živa Jerman and Nayeli Špela for offering space that holds.

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This project was co-funded by European union

The Desert - Compass of Stillness Erasmus+ Training Course 14.-22. November 2025 - Slovenia Moave - Psychology in Movement www.moave.si/thedesertVideo edit :...

26/11/2025

When entering the Void we are meet with many surprises.
Some of them come as joy, laughter and love.

Gratitude for the Paradoxes of Life.

“I thought this training will be really deep and hard.
But in reality, I have met so much light, joy and connection!”

Thank you Group wisdom, for holding the web of connection in all the directions.

Ps: this is the most bubbly 🫧 music I could find. To keep the parody of The Void Alive and Kicking 🦵🏾

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The Desert - Compass of Stillness
Training course in the white landscape of Slovenian Forest 🌲 ⛄️

18/11/2025

The Desert

Day 3 brought the topic of Disorientation as a chance to be witnessed in our own Deserts and meet with the gifts of Darkness.

What was brought as a beautiful surprise in the following day, was white landscape of fresh snow.

What a paradox to embrace and give gratitude to.

Thank you nature, for your soft gifts of light.

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“Darkness can have beautiful quality of holding.
Invites into sleep the busy mind chatter, so deeper layers can be unfolded and meet.
Truth is not always pleasant.
But what is even less pleasant is the unwillingness to see it.
So in the dark nights that are present for us, may we meet internally whatever is sleeping inside,
ready to witnessed.
Without rushing, without pretending,
without needing to move somewhere else than being here.”

Erasmus+ training course