Last Thursday I met with the lovely Diane Evans, National Programme Manager at the National Youth Agency (NYA). Diane had kindly responded to my critical blog post on an Institute for Youth Work, and we met up to discuss where this idea had got to and what it might mean for youth workers. A bit [...]
Last week, a little revolution started on twitter with a small number of youth work types. The idea was simply to pick three of your followers and encourage them with a little tweet, adding the hashtag #LoveMonday and asking them to do the same for three of their followers. It went surprisingly well [...]
Everyone makes mistakes, and when it comes to my youth work I’ve made some clangers! Hopefully by reproducing them here, it may give you a bit of a laugh and help you to avoid doing the same thing. Mistake #7: Thinking I know Best Now I need to be honest here. Telling you about this [...]
Do we need an ‘Institute for Youth Work’ and who gets to decide what it does? At the moment, it’s certainly not you and I. Children & Young People Now reported last week (registration required) that ‘A consortium of youth organisations is exploring the creation of an independent body to provide youth workers with a [...]
So yesterday, @sparticus started a conversation on twitter that quickly gained momentum with a number of Christian youth workers. His original tweet was: He later explained it in a post on his site: As far as I’m aware [my tweet] a complete lie, but it sparked a discussion around what was reasonable to pay a [...]
Connected Generation 2011 is an UnConference around engaging young people through digital means, organised through the youth work online network. I went to the 2008 event which I blogged about here, but couldn’t do the 2009Â or 2010 events. Here’s the basic details on this year: Date: Saturday 21st May 2011, 10:00am – 4:30pm Location: ‘The [...]
From the archive is a series of posts highlighting content previously posted on this blog that may be new to some readers or helpful to revisit: In light of the cuts across the statutory youth sector, this post looks at an interestingly prophetic talk on the death of statutory youth services given by Tony Jeffs [...]
As usual, Paul Martin got me thinking! In a post last week he proposed that the common phrase ‘What Would Jesus Do’ (WWJD) while a reminder of Christ’s actions, is actually missing the point. He points us in the direction of John 5:19: Jesus gave them this answer: ”Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing [...]
Everyone makes mistakes, and when it comes to my youth work I’ve made some clangers! Hopefully by reproducing them here, it may give you a bit of a laugh and help you to avoid doing the same thing. Mistake #6: Trying to do everything By nature, I’m a bit of a generalist. I don’t [...]
I was reading Brian Berry’s post on a recent parent summit they did at their church in San Diego. It was a training day to help explain the vision of the work, look at their values, and evaluate the impact of what they are doing (visit his blog for more info and ideas). Here in [...]
