11th workshop

Hylatio Tourist Village – March 28 2025

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The 11th local activity was implemented by youth worker Boghos Avetikian in assistance with Erma Georgiou, the trainer of the first project in Cyprus. Attendees were youth workers from numerous countries during a PDA named "Media Mind". This activity was based on the second training course that took place in Latvia named "Photography and Music as Therapy in Youth Work". Focusing specifically on photography, this workshop was focused on the photography aspect of the training.

Specifically, Boghos implemented the "Therapeutic Photography" activity, which is about self-expression, reflection and personal growth.

To explore emotions, identities, and the self and combine it with photography as a means of visual language, participants were asked to take two photos. 

• The first, a photo that represents them as they see themselves now. 
• The second, a photo, is what they strive for in the future.

As taught to Boghos during the training in Riga, participants were given ample time to take both photos, and the subject of the photo had to be themselves, with facial expressions changing as well as the background.

In the second step, participants were put into pairs to discuss their photos, ideas and what these photos mean to them. Participants not only reflected on each other's photos, and themselves as well as the connection with them and the nature around them, which happened to be the background of the photo.