Building psychological resilience of athletes through personal development tools

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Effective communication as a skill is important on both personal and professional level and tends to facilitate relationship building and maintaining. Working with young people that are developing their sporting career often may be challenging and requires higher level of understanding of other person’s perceptions, thoughts, emotions, tendencies and needs. In order to receive positive feedbacks and amplify learning outcomes – establishment of optimal communicational code beneficial for all the participants in the act of communication is necessary. The skill of effective communication that implies knowing how to listen, how to timely and thoughtfully detect and express emotions in assertive way in the sense of this project’s programme is enriched by empathy which is a skill that provides deeper and authentic comprehension, sympathy and compassion for the wholesomeness of the person(s) involved in the communicational discourse, necessary for the purposes of levelling up the overall experience and quality of educational activities for young athletes. Enriching effect on the understanding, reacting and responding in the discourse among two or more people comes from the practice of mindfulness that will be introduced and used through the digital tools. Specific objectives: 1. Building capacities of organizations to create, develop and implement activities that are focused on psychological and emotional resilience of athletes (especially females), in service of their professional stability and development 2. Up taking knowledge and improving skills and digital competences of coaches and trainers to deliver activities through direct work with athletes and online 3. Promoting young athletes’s mental well-being on local level as one of the objectives of the European Youth Goals