‘Get in Touch with (Your) Nature’ is a project for 20 young people who stutter (YPWS) in the age of 22 until 30. The project consists of a youth exchange and an advance planning visit. The project aims at making a contribution to the personal development of YPWS and to improve their psychological, emotional and social well-being through improved levels of nature connectedness, and consequently to foster their active participation in society and become inspiring examples to their national/local peers facing similar challenges. The seven day youth exchange will take place in a nature rich environment in Sale San Giovanni, Italy, from 25.09.2016 to 1.10.2016 and will gather 20 YPWS, 5 group leaders coming from organizations active in the field of challenged youth from Netherlands, Italy, Iceland, England and Portugal. We will use different methods of non-formal education to strengthen and develop capacities crucial for personal and professional development and to establish stronger connectedness with nature as the main source of empowerment. Participants will learn together and from each other about their speech disability and collectively find new ways of dealing with it. The OBJECTIVES of this youth exchange are:-to provide participants an opportunity to learn about other cultures and deepen participants’ understanding and knowledge about the situation YPWS-peers in other countries experience and encourage participants to take an active role in developing new solutions for overcoming these issues;-to deepen participants’ understanding and knowledge about nature as a source of empowerment and the ways connectedness to nature can create improvements in their psychological, emotional and social well-being, including achieving higher levels of self-acceptance, self-empowerment and self-esteem and stronger commitment to value-based life;-to increase participants’ sense of initiative and foster active participation in their local communities and society at large;-to establish and provide participants with a network for continuous peer-learning and mentorship opportunities;-to strengthen quality relationships between partner organizations and participants, including establishing new contacts and networks for future collaborations on personal and professional level;-to enhance participants’ knowledge of Erasmus+ Program, its Key Actions and encourage development of new projects and initiatives under Erasmus+ Program.The participants will be actively engaged in the youth exchange to make sure the exchange is fully build upon the needs and capacities of the participants. Through the use of non-formal methodologies such as meditation, outdoor activities, brainstorms, groups work and creative sessions, participants will be learning new competences about their speech disability and about their relationship with the natural world. There is a specific attention for follow-up to the programme, because the partnering organizations have stated that they would like to make a change regarding the awareness of stammering. The follow-up consists of designing new projects, both on a national level as well as on an international level. For the participants there will be a buddy programme that will allow the peer learning process to continue after the exchange.The exchange will give the particpants a boost in their personal development, such as development of their skills, knowledge and attitudes related to their stutter. We envisage that the participants of the project will be the future actors and ambassadors of bringing acceptance to stuttering and become examples of active citizens living life according to their values. On an ecological level we expect the improvement of nature-connection to have an impact on their environmentally sustainable behaviour.