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Observe the S in DISC for youth worker’s

Over the past few weeks we have been looking at the DISC behavioural profile and its use for youth worker’s in ...
November 8, 2012
Career

Why youth worker’s need to embrace technology for professional development

Are we falling behind??? Are we becoming as obsolete as the home phone, the floppy disk or the hand held calcula...
November 6, 2012
Personal

Observe the I in DISC for youth worker’s

Last Thursday we began a looking at the individual quadrants within the DISC behavioural profiling system with &#8220...
November 1, 2012
Relational youth work
Ethics

Setting boundaries in youth work:How much do I share about me?

Over the past two weeks I have spoken to a number of youth workers and all of these conversations have&nbsp...
October 31, 2012
Personal

Observe the D in DISC for youth worker’s

Last Thursday we began a Series looking at the DISC behavioural profiling system and discussed how DISC can help us t...
October 25, 2012
Critical reflection
Supervision

youth work peer consultation: reflective practice revisited

Reflective practice with your peers We have all had those moments in our youth work career. We are stuck and we don’t...
October 23, 2012
Professional

Behavioural observation is the key to best practice youth work.

A few weeks ago we stated that we would look at how to develop a behavioural lensto inform how you work with young pe...
October 18, 2012
Ethics

Youth work boundaries: fuzzy or fixed???

Today I was speaking with some youth worker’s about the state of our profession in Australia and what is holdin...
October 16, 2012
Professional

Youth Work Project Management

Welcome to our first ever Thursday Think Tank. Here we will discuss tips, tools, frameworks and systems that will hel...
October 11, 2012
Ethics

Youth Justice: Restoration or Retribution?

We asked our followers recently what they would like us to talk about on the blog and one topic stood out as a major ...
October 9, 2012