"Young people are not thought to communicate with others. They do not know how to listen to others and to themselves and how to express their opinions and needs without judgment, criticism, and violence. That often leads to aggression and suicide attempts.The objectives of this project are the following:1. To support youth in acquiring and developing basic competencies: an ability to identify, understand, express, interpret and reflect upon own feelings and needs, and to work with others in an empathetic and solution-oriented way.2. To support educators and youth workers by equipping them with an innovative and complementary to other methods tool, enabling themto reach out especially young people who have problems with self-expression and self-reflection in a field of emotions, needs, and future planning. This project will be run transnationally because of its core quality aspect which is a multicultural expression, by incorporating diverse symbols and esthetic coming from different cultures and minority groups. Activities that we planned: 1) Transnational Project Meeting during which we will make final preparation for the whole project and strengthen cooperation between Partners. 2) The research - collecting images representing feelings and needs of young people from different social and cultural backgrounds during workshops, online and offline campaigns. We will also do analyses of most actual resources on a topic of the project across Europe (books, articles in specialized magazines, videos, etc.). 3) Test phase to make sure that our tool will fit young people. 4) Creating The Colors of Feelings and Needs"" - 160 illustrations in printable formats (jpg and pdf.) ready to download on the website and the Manual for youth workers. 5) Mini-congress (multiplier event) to share the outcomes of research and show know-how for “The Colors of Feelings and Needs” deck. During the research phase, we will involve directly minimum 40 young people from Poland and Germany from different areas being in danger of social exclusion (mental health, neurological disabilities, and refugees). We will also approach the min. 100 young people through social media and in public spaces.During the test phase min. 16 young people (8 per country) will take part in the workshops. We also plan mini-congress (multiplier event) - the invitations will be sent to min. 100 youth organizations, schools, and higher education institutions and we will invite 20 experienced youth workers and educators from Poland and Germany. The Colors of Feelings and Needs will empower young people through helping them to name their feelings and needs (making them more self-aware) and empathize with other people’s feelings and needs, showing them how they can take their life in their own hands and take responsibility for fulfilling own needs through different strategies by changing communication patterns. Thanks to that they will develop respect and compassion. Youth workers will gain an innovative and easy to use tool to work with youth - using visual arts and metaphor as a powerful way of nonverbal communication.Nonviolent Communication becomes a crucial element in work with a youth work. It focuses mainly on the communication aspect within a person and with people, and the main tool to reach the outcomes are words. However, while working with young people using words and intellect is not the most efficient way of reaching them and helping to open up and express. That is why we decided to combine nonverbal communication and visual tools with Nonviolent Communication approach. We want to help youth to get to know themselves better and express themselves in an open, noninvasive way. We want to encourage new generations to connect with other people through empathy, acceptance, and openness for diversity - working through cards will create a safe and powerful environment, where young people will not be judged or criticized and youth workers and educators will get attractive, innovative and easy to use the tool. Cards will be suitable for all cultures and languages, so it could be used all over Europe.We hope that this tool will cause more workshops addressing youths based on feelings and needs in the are of formal and nonformal education. We believe to form a community of practice, where nonverbal communication will equally accompany the verbal one."