Društvo za dušo (Slovenia)
“DUHOVNO DRUŠTVO ZA DUŠO” is NGO, with its headquarters in the eastern part of Slovenia and an office in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Ljubljana is situated in central Slovenia, and is the economic, geographical, cultural, scientific, political and administrative center of Slovenia. It’s the largest university town in Slovenia, therefore a lot of students live here from other places in Slovenia and other world countries.
We have more than 80 members and we hold regular educational activities, such as seminars, courses and workshops for all age groups as well as special student evenings with slide shows and musical evenings, in all major cities of Slovenia (in Ljubljana, Maribor, Nova Gorica, Kranj and Celje).
Apart from our regular activites our Youth Department at the moment takes part in two international Youth in Action projects.
We place high value on youth and adult education. We believe it is one of the most important investments and it is critical to reducing economic and spiritual poverty and inequality. One of our main aims is to make a genuine contribution to learning and teaching process and to emphasize the importance of knowledge and education. We know that this means we have to continually improve the teaching techniques of our associates and to offer people a wide variety of learning opportunities.
The fundamental mission of our organization is to connect the wisdom of the ancient Indian philosophy with people in a way that this wisdom will bridge the gap between different sciences and arts and unite them in practical knowledge in all areas for the well-being of an individual.
We do this by organizing:
There are two main priorities in our organization
To achieve our aims, we organise a wide range of activities, programmes and events. Our workshops, lectures and classes are open to everyone and we work closely with persons with less opportunities, migrants, different social subcultural groups, persons with special needs, minorities and foreign students in Slovenia.
In the last two years we’ve offered youth and adults more than 150 different learning opportunities and more than 30 travel opportunities connected with ecology our soul tourism, from Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) lectures and workshops to healthy diet presentations, personal development and workshops and Wisdom of the East lectures. According to lists of attendance cca. 400-500 students learn at our educational activites.
Our main focus is on non-formal education. During the school year we hold 26-29 educational activites per month, during school year 2018/2019 there will be about 50 activities held every month in the following cities: Ljubljana, Kranj, Celje, Maribor, Sevnica, Slovenj Gradec, Domžale, Murska Sobota, Lendava, Novo mesto, Vrhnika, Koper and Nova Gorica. The lectures, seminars, workshops are held mostly at public schools and youth centers.
We promote intercultural experiences by engaging ourselves in working with various European organizations with similar goals and values; and we promote equity and inclusion by inviting individulas with fewer opportunities to join us for our projects.
Since 2014 we’ve been applicant or partner organizations in several EU projects for youth, youth workers and adult education projects:
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Youth exchanges: “Green Summer Power” project with Croatian partners, and “Youth for Sustainability” with partners from Sweden, Latvia, Hungary and Spain.
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Youth workers seminars: “Recycle Yourself” with partners from United Kingdom, Croatia, Belgium and Italy; “Organic Way” with partners from Latvia, the Netherlands, Spain, France; “Name of the Rose” Job Shadowing project with the hosting partner from France.
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Strategic partnership “Simple Living, High Thinking” with partners from Sweden, Hungary, Czechia, and Belgium.
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Adult education projects: “Give and Get” with partners from Poland and Latvia; Training the Teachers Matters with partners from Italy, Belgium and Latvia.
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Volunteering projects: “Healthy European=Happy Europen” with sending organizations from the Netherlands and Latvia; “Keeping Mental Health” with the hosting organization in United Kingdom; “Agriculture Hope” with hosting organization in Spain;
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“Empowered by EVS” with the hosting organization in Latvia.
Društvo za dušo
Slovenia
We’re members of the Slovenian Volunteering Organizations Network and we’re also registered as a voluntary organization at AJPES – an indispensable primary source of business information.
In 2017 we received the status of an association in public interest.
Društvo za dušo has been a Host Enterpreneur in the Erasmus for Young Enterpreneurs program, a cross-border exchange programme which gives new or aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses in other Participating Countries.