All NexGen Pro articles – Page 74
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IssuesSupporting youth work
Without guidance and help from leaders, mentors and peers, our youth work can go badly awry in the long term. Experienced youth work adviser Pete Maidment explores the vital subject of supervision, looking practically at three key areas in which we can allow others to support and speak into our lives and our work with young people.
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Voluntary vs state youth work
When I took a course in Youth and Community Studies, one of the first ways that pupils pigeonholed each other was to identify who came from the state sector and who came from the voluntary sector. A few days into the course there was much confessing of assumptions and misunderstandings from both sides. People admitted to many broken preconceptions. I’d had my own. I’d felt that state youth work was dry, bureaucratic and unadventurous. Some people in state youth work confessed to fears that youth workers in the voluntary sector were untrained enthusiasts or religious fanatics.
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The state of things
Obviously, the cultural landscape young people are living in is constantly shifting – so what do we actually know? We dug into some research to get a better idea…
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IssuesA summer of sport!
Can it really be four years since the London Olympics? Well, yes, actually it is. Check the calendar. See! But that does mean that Rio is nearly here and Olympic fever is about to hit us again. While the hype may not quite match 2012 and the timings of the big events might mean watching in the middle of the night, we can still join in the fun. And, there are some new sports to pretend we know everything about:
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BlogA year without sport
The 1st of January was one of the greatest days of my life. I’ve never been a massive fan of New Year – in fact most years I am to Hogmanay what Scrooge is to Christmas – I go to bed early and try to sleep through the gunpowder explosions going off outside my bedroom window. 2016 was different because, for me, 2015 was different. 2015 was a year without sport.
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Sport
THE SUMMER IS HERE! The sun is out! Ice cream is readily available! Flip-flops are socially acceptable! Sport is… everywhere! Yes, the summer of sport has arrived, and with both football’s European Championships and the Olympics in Rio, this is no time to enjoy the delights of this country’s beautiful outdoors... grab a drink, get the best seat on the sofa and fix your eyes on the goggle box. Here’s the Premier Youthwork guide to surviving the summer of sport…
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IssuesSimplicity
Our regular resource for incorporating spiritual practices into your work with children, from Ian Adams and Carolyn Edwards
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IssuesSiku
In the world of Christian comic books, one man stands above the rest – Siku, the pen behind The Manga Bible. Now he’s joined forces with the London School of Theology to produce a youth work resource called Drink It !, a series of illustrated stories enabling discussion and reflection. He chatted to Youthwork designer and comic-lover Lloyd Kinsley about the resource, stories and his inspirations
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IssuesYour shout
Youth work can be a dynamic and rewarding career, but trying to connect with today’s young people living in a world driven by YOLO and
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IssuesServing Those Who Serve
How do we love (and keep) our volunteers? Ivy Beckwith has some tips.
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Teachers support youth work in schools
More than 90 per cent of teachers believe that youth work has a role to play in formal education, according to new survey results from The National Youth Agency (NYA).
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Schools’ work: Spirituality
Dream: think strategically and with vision about our work in schools.
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IssuesSchools’ work: Words from the wise
Following on from our recent article on getting started with schools’ work, we’ve trawled the world of schools’ work and come up with some great tips from those with lots of experience in leading assemblies. So here are some things to set you thinking, and some tweet-sized pieces of advice…
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IssuesStarting School
No matter where kids are on a Sunday morning, we know where they are during the week: at school. So what are the best ways of working with schools and engaging with children during the week? Alex Taylor investigates
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IssuesStaying Sane in Youth Work
How much thought do we put into our own mental and emotional health and well-being as youth workers? Rob Waller looks at how we can establish strong foundations that will ensure that we don't over-commit or burn out, and prepare us for the inevitable tough times in youth ministry...
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IssuesRound Table
So what does all this research mean? Is youth work working? What needs to change? We gathered six youth workers and thinkers from a variety of backgrounds and traditions to talk about it.
