Mythomorphosis is a heartfelt Erasmus+ project that brings together creativity, nature, and soul in service of young people and those who guide them. Born from the partnership between Artami (Latvia) and Actions for Change (Romania), this project seeks to reimagine youth work through innovative tools that nurture authenticity, belonging, and self-discovery.
At its heart lies the concept of the Mythopoetic Identity – a unique personal compass that helps each young person uncover their gifts, make sense of their story, and find their place in the world. Through the Nature-based Map of Wholeness and Creative-expressive Arts (storytelling, poetry, painting, collage, and more), youth workers will be trained and equipped with soulful methods to support young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, in their journeys toward inclusion, resilience, and authentic living.
The project will bloom into two online learning courses, a training course for youth workers, and multiplier events in Latvia and Romania, sharing its fruits with communities across Europe. Together, these experiences aim to strengthen the capacities of youth workers, enrich youth organizations, and touch the lives of hundreds of young people indirectly.
This playlist brings together the full Online Learning Course exploring mythopoetic identity as a pathway toward youth inclusion and empowerment. Through these videos, you will be introduced to practices inspired by the Map of Wholeness — a guiding framework that approaches identity as dynamic, relational, and alive. Rather than something fixed, identity is understood here as a living process shaped through experience, imagination, and connection. You will encounter nature-based practices, imagination journeys, embodiment work, and storytelling — each offering practical ways to support young people in discovering and expressing their unique inner narratives. Together, the videos deepen an understanding of identity as an unfolding personal myth, one that fosters belonging, creativity, participation, and meaningful social inclusion. This playlist is designed for youth workers, educators, facilitators, and anyone interested in innovative approaches to identity formation and meaningful learning.
This playlist presents an Online Learning Course exploring mythopoetic identity through the transformative power of creative-expressive arts. Designed for youth workers, educators, facilitator. The course offers practical, art-based methods — including drawing, painting, collage-making, poetry, and storytelling — to support identity formation, self-expression, and social inclusion. Blending theory with hands-on activities, these videos introduce innovative tools that help explore identity as a living, evolving story — nurturing creativity, belonging, and empowerment along the way.
In this booklet, you will find nature-based invitations designed to support individuals in discovering and exploring their mythopoetic identity.
Through nature and wholeness based practices such as wanders in nature, reflecting questions, embodiment these invitations encourage reflection, self-inquiry and meaning-making, allowing personal experiences to unfold as mythic narratives and deepen aspects of the self to emerge.
This booklet is designed primarily for youth workers to use in their work with young people—especially those with fewer opportunities—to support their journeys toward inclusion, resilience, and authentic living. At the same time, it can also be used by individuals as a tool for self-exploration and personal reflection.
The Guide - translated in Romanian
The Guide - translated in Latvian
In this booklet, you will find art-based invitations designed to support individuals in discovering and exploring their mythopoetic identity.
Through creative expressive art such as clay work, collage making, and symbolic expression, these invitations encourage reflection, self-inquiry, and meaning-making, allowing personal experiences to unfold as mythic narratives and deeper aspects of the self to emerge.
This booklet is designed primarily for youth workers to use in their work with young people—especially those with fewer opportunities—to support their journeys toward inclusion, resilience, and authentic living. At the same time, it can also be used by individuals as a tool for self-exploration and personal reflection.
The Guide - translated in Latvian
The Guide - translated in Romanian
Through these pages, you are invited into a place where your own unfolding story meets poems that speak the symbolic language of the Soul. These poems offer themselves as companions along the mythic becoming you are embracing, inviting you to remember and inhabit your mythopoetic identity - the core, pulsating, living image that has brought you into form and into this life.
You may open this collection anywhere and allow yourself to be taken by the poem that wants to meet you. Do not worry if you do not understand all the words. Pay attention instead to what touches you, to what stirs you, even if it is only a single word. At times, a poem may arrive as preparation; at other times, as dissolution, or sacred encounter, metamorphosis or offering. Trust the whisper of what finds you.
You may return to this book again and again, for a poem is never a static thing to be caught in a box and ‘understood’. It is a living, wild creature, one that moves and transforms as you move and transform, as you pass through endings and beginnings, through the many identities you shed, acquire and are continually shape-shifted by.
Read these poems aloud. Read them to yourself, to the land, to another human. Let them be spoken to trees, earth, rivers and curious humans. Allow the poems to be embodied - felt in the beating heart, in the belly, grounded in your feet. In this way, the poems do not remain on the page; they enter the world and they enter your world.
May you continue to welcome both dying and living as allies. May you recognize the gifts that have been entrusted to you and may you offer them with humbleness, courage and care.
The project is developed by Artami (Latvia) and Actions for Change (Romania) and is Co-funded by the European Union, under the project number 2024-3-LV02-KA210-YOU-000266839
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.