The Cultural Mediation Guidelines for Educators and Facilitators are the main output of the MeWell (Mediation for Wellbeing) Erasmus+ cooperation partnership project — a cross-national collaboration involving organisations in Lithuania, Austria, and Malta. This initiative responds to growing societal challenges such as demographic ageing, cultural disengagement, and social fragmentation, particularly among adults aged 50 and above. It situates cultural mediation as both a methodology and a value system for engaging older adults in cultural participation that fosters wellbeing, inclusion, and lifelong learning.

Cultural mediation is presented here not as a fixed technique, but as a dynamic, relational, and democratic practice that fosters emotional resonance, personal reflection, and shared meaning-making. These guidelines provide practical tools, case studies, and theoretical grounding to help educators, mediators, artists, institutions, policy makers or community facilitators make their cultural spaces more inclusive, reflexive, and socially relevant.

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