Kirsty will be running a session at a couple of Participation Works events next month with ideas on using practical resources for youth participation - you can find details in the flyer here plus here’s the blurb:
Hosted by ParticipationWorks,Participation: The Essential Tools and Resources is a one day conference that will explore the available tools and resources to support children and young people’s participation in a range of settings. Delegates at the conference will learn how to use tools and resources to improve children and young people’s participation. Participants will also be able to discuss specific participation issues through a number of workshops. The conference will be a great networking opportunity for everyone involved in participation
Also from Participation works you can download a new guide (at the bottom of the page in this link) - called ‘How to Use Multimedia Tools to Engage Young People’ written by Tim Davies and I think he’s done a very good job creating a useful starting point for anyone thinking about using new media but not sure how to start.
I think I’ve spent more time in London these past 6 weeks than I have in the previous 10 years. Yesterday I went along with Ana (who’s working on the OnTheUp development) to the Innovation Exchanges Festival of Ideas.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect - the idea I’d submitted over on their website was OnTheUp which we’ve been developing further since the Social Innovation Camp. The ‘Festival’ was held at Amnesty International HQ and basically involved bringing together various people in the young people/youth work world along with potential commissioners and funders, and then encouraging them to talk to each other and see who might be interested in who.
It was good to meet up with David Wilcox again who was busy making more live films streamed from his mobile phone - besides capturing my ‘pitch’ he also got some of my thoughts about this kind of event (below). I’m a big fan of this more open approach to bringing people together and sharing ideas, experiences etc. - for me it has considerably more benefit than the alternative and more traditional conferences that in my opinion are rarely good value for money and usually involve familiar faces preaching familiar messages.
The theme yesterday was supporting ‘excluded young people’ and of course to be doing so in innovative ways given the agenda of the organisers. I think perhaps the audience wasn’t diverse enough to truly Continue Reading »
Five banners down, 40 new people, Five 3D maps cleared, 80 odd pictures and a sandwich spread later- and its only day one!
Myself and 3 volunteers began training in Letterkenny, Ireland today as part of a Leadership through the arts project. We will be running the one-day course for 3 days, with 6 new groups every morning, so we will meet and work with over a hundred different people! Apart from a slightly delayed flight and a forgotten driving license, we got off to a good start this morning with a new idea we were piloting.
The idea came from the current resource we use, prospective. Prospective aims to make participants consider and make a link between their community, the people and resources in it, issues those people face and opportunities which would allow them make a positive contribution. We decided to take a more practical approach to this method incorporating arts to have participants create a 3D sculpture for their map and then using a bit of social media by way of films to present the different aspects of their area. There were positive and negative aspects to this method in comparison to the resource so this has allowed us to identify what works best. Thats why it’s great we are doing it again tomorrow!
Due to the late arrival in Ireland and the extremely early start, unfortunately we haven’t had much time to enjoy Donegal, so hopefully tomorrow we’ll be more up for a mission! As for traveling out here alone, everythings gone to plan so far (apart from a few currency worries!!), so the long term planning and folders full of addresses, bookings, session notes etc paid off!!
Practical Ideas for Youth Participation was an event organised by YoMo in October 2007. If you would like help to organise your own events, a quote for bespoke training or to discuss potential partnership work please contact us at info@yomo.co.uk
Practical Ideas for Youth Participation was an event organised by YoMo in October 2007. If you would like help to organise your own events, a quote for bespoke training or to discuss potential partnership work please contact us at info@yomo.co.uk
Practical Ideas for Youth Participation was an event organised by YoMo in October 2007. If you would like help to organise your own events, a quote for bespoke training or to discuss potential partnership work please contact us at info@yomo.co.uk
Practical Ideas for Youth Participation was an event organised by YoMo in October 2007. If you would like help to organise your own events, a quote for bespoke training or to discuss potential partnership work please contact us at info@yomo.co.uk
Practical Ideas for Youth Participation was an event organised by YoMo in October 2007. If you would like help to organise your own events, a quote for bespoke training or to discuss potential partnership work please contact us at info@yomo.co.uk
