Passion needs to be tempered for effective youth work.

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I was recently speaking to an organisation who were going to fire a youth worker. They had a list of grievances a mil...

October 7, 2013

Today I was reflecting on my career and the major traumatic events that I have seen. I was speaking to a class of sch...

October 2, 2013

Many years ago after finishing my degree I asked one of my professors for some guidence with an piece of work I was d...

September 18, 2013

In the height of this neoliberalist push towards managerialism we are finding that more managers seem to be looking o...

September 9, 2013

I was recently talking to a youth worker who hadn’t had a holiday in over five years. Aside from a couple of lo...

September 4, 2013

One of the most used tools I have in my kit is an Ecomap. An Ecomap is a graphical representation of the systems at w...

August 28, 2013

Over the past weekend I spent some time reading about the professionalisation debate which has swept the global youth...

August 26, 2013

I was speaking to some of my students recently about their time in the courses I teach in. Many of the student said t...

July 29, 2013

Over the years I have been asked hundreds of times about how to set boundaries in youth work. I have spoken to this i...

July 11, 2013

Youth work is changing rapidly. Many of the changes are coming to the fore because of issues which have haunted ...

July 8, 2013