Feedback On Change – Learning and Money

Change
A process of change – Gradual Natural and chosen by young people, then Awareness of Problems, Seek Discernment about which battles to take on, Include YP with the process. Get on with it and Be the change you want to see – Internal and Outward change is vitally connected and we need both sometimes – Do we think ourselves into a new of acting or Act ourselves into a new way of thinking.

Learning
Do our methods of learning passively undermine our intention?
Balance and tension
How we live amongst people in a way that promotes learning and inclusion in what we are doing.
Authentic about the intention of learning with young people being open about this with the

Money
Position being flexible about what we communicate with authenticity? Wording and
StreetSpace to do some research into value of city centre youth work, perhaps with the O2

Social media

Here we identified 4 questions or areas to discuss around Social Media
– Good Practice
– Can social media change the world
– How can encourage YP to use social media in a positive way
– Communication with young people via social media

The feedback was joined up so we will be writing up and revising our policy guidance around it. But if you want to see the pictures of the groups, they are uploaded on facebook.

Our final words of advice from the groups are:

– Should all conversations be recorded on the internet, and if so do we need to relook at all one-2-one work and safeguarding?

– Do viral clips (like KNOY 2012) work because of messages or the medium. To go viral and be engaging it either needs to be authentic or really high production quality – what’s in the middle space

– Power is being recaptured by the powerful in the online space.

Updated policies will be made available to the network soon.

Mysticism

First Theme being explored Mysticism – 4 Areas
Language – needs to develop out of the experience of the young person and find their own language. – Use symbolism to bridge the gap between language and experience
How we do we encourage our own spirituality to encourage others? – we need to develop our own awareness, practice disciplines etc
Find the Thin places in ourselves, and the environment
Bigger than ourselves and need to be open to the new and different
Gender and Spirituality – Value physical Spirituality, awareness of our own gender baggage, and this

StreetSpace Mysticism – Young people are god bearers and spiritual beings not a deficit model. Draw on shared experiences and could this help us develop some common language but allow us our diversity
Wu Tang Clan 43rd Chamber and taking detached work to level 5.

The Gathering Part one

This weekend I am at the StreetSpace Gathering. It is a coming together of about 35 people from across the network with 18 of the 36 projects represented. The whole event is developed using a participative processes. Last night we kicked off with a pictionary ice breaker (draw an activity you do the others dont know you do). The aim is to encourage an equality across the group and not go for the I am XX with this many young people in our contact etc.

We then used a random word generator to spark a creative thinking process as the begininng for the themes we will discuss as a group over the weekend. The Random words were:
– Turntable
– Leaflet
– Mystic
– Passive
Each table mind mapped the words and then people swapped tables to gather the wisdom from the other.
We ended up with three themes we will discuss as a whole group this morning:
– How do we develop mysticism and next level spirituality with young people?
– Social media – Practical advice, Benefits, and Communication
– Being Authentic Us and Others
We also developed a further 6 themes we will use in break out groups.
– Values
– Mentoring Peacemakers
– Change what does it mean?
– Learning Passive and Active – How do you build emotional intelligence in an active learning style/ with chaotic yp
– Money
– The Balance Mission/Personal/Professional