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Professional

Read a book.

Ongoing Professional Development is one of the foundation pillars which underpin the Ultimate Youth Worker. However, ...
December 7, 2012
Future

What will youth work look like in 2013???

Today it is my pleasure to kick off a series that will take us to mid January 2013. In this series we will hear from ...
December 4, 2012
Child Safety

What is a youth workers Duty of Care: Reporting abuse

Over the past few weeks I seem to have had a number of people ask about ethical practice and duty of care in youth wo...
November 27, 2012
Professional

How to encourage young people as a youth worker

One of the most enjoyable parts of being a youth worker is providing a measure of encouragement to our young people. ...
November 22, 2012
Professional

Deep engagement in youth work

All too often in youth work we are forced to commit ourselves to shallow engagements with young people. Whether becau...
November 20, 2012
Personal

Observe the C in DISC for youth worker’s

Over the last five weeks we have looked into the best tool we know of to help people build relationships with people ...
November 15, 2012
Professional

Accountability through ongoing learning

Throughout my career I have met hundreds if not thousands of youth workers with varying levels of expertise, varying ...
November 13, 2012
Personal

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