Youth workers discussed and exchanged views on Greece's and the Netherlands' social, political and economic context and young people's reality. The discussion revolved around elements known and unknown about the reality of young people in partner countries, the difficulties and obstacles they face, their ambitions and dreams.  

The team of youth workers came across and processed a series of well-known paintings and were asked to select some of them based on the following questions:

1. Which painting would you like for you and explain to us why? 

2. Choose one painting that describes "Perfect Life" according to you.

3. Choose one painting that doesn't depict the "Perfect Life" according to you. 

The team of youth workers came across and processed a series of photos picturing the relationship between older and younger generations during the 1990s and were asked to select 3 of them and make up a story about performance pressure.

The team of youth workers were asked to form smaller groups and:

• Create a story about performance pressure based on photographs

• Create a song about performance pressure

• Create a video about performance pressure and associate it with suitable music

Youth workers discussed and exchanged views on the next steps they will need to follow during the preparatory meetings with young participants. 

The main questions that revolved around the discussion were the following: 

1. Where to find the young participants?

2. How to involve them in the project's actions?

3. How to motivate them to participate in the project's actions?

4. What are you expecting from their participation?

5. How do you talk with them about the topic of "Perfect Life" and performance pressure?

6. How to organise the preparatory meetings?

Youth workers created mindmaps based on 4 major questions. They reflected on them and wrote down their thoughts and ideas to link them together. 

The 4 questions were the following:

1. How do you start with the group of participants?

2. How do you work with personal experiences?

3. How do you make up a story?

4. How do you change the story to a performance?