✔️ What’s the one thing young people should take away?
✔️ Can I communicate it simply?
✔️ Can I scale learning engagement without disrupting the flow?

#youthwork 6/6

🔑 The best sessions aren’t the ones that look great on paper when you show your manager, they’re the ones where young people go home having understood and learnt something.

Now, I always ask myself:

1️⃣ Simplicity Wins → Strip it back to one clear focus.
2️⃣ Adapt Mid-Session → If they’re struggling, adjust on the fly.
3️⃣ Age Perspective → If I were their age, would I understand this?

A session only works if the young people understand it.

It didn’t matter how detailed or innovative my plan was, if they couldn’t grasp it quickly, it wasn’t effective.

💡 What I learned:

I was convinced it would be my best session yet.

But once we started, chaos unfolded.

❌ Young people were confused.
❌ Multi choice answers met with confused questions.
❌ Frustration replaced Engagement.

That was the moment it hit me
By the end, I was explaining more than they were learning.

In #youthwork where generations change and you have to adapt to new ways its always important to keep learning

Whats your thoughts?

Im a big advocate for open access youth groups.

I think for too long we have only prioritise Targeted #Youthwork when both should coexists.

I did a consultation feedback form woth young people recently and safe space was words that they used a couple times so i got no issue with the term