100 Good Things the 2021 edition 100 things to be thankful for The 2021 edition It’s been even more of a rollercoaster year than usual but I think being thankful, even when you have to look hard for things to be thankful for, is an essential way of life. With that in mind, I’m listing […]
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Finding Your Flow Since I began my business supporting those who support young people, through mentoring, training and writing, I have come across many people very unhappy in their job. Not always because of the specific job they do, but more usually because of the pressure being placed on them. Sometimes that’s from other people,
Do What You Love It’s easy enough to say isn’t it, ‘do what you love’. And I don’t know about you but to me it also implies a defiant and belligerent ‘and nothing else’ on the end. How unrealistic, how tempting! Increasingly though I am realising two things, one is that doing what you love
Worth Unlimited This week on the podcast, which you can listen to on Spotify, Anchor or Apple, I talked to Matt Perry of Worth Unlimited about the impact of Covid 19 on the work of his organisation, and in particular the challenges he faces as National Director. Matt and I trained together many years ago
A couple of weeks ago I had a great podcast chat with James and Mike of the Concrete Academy. I used to work with James on the Mental Health and Young People Think Tank and Mike and I have often chatted on Twitter so it was an easy conversation with lots of laughter – always
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Be aware of ‘Zoom fatigue’ and plan in some time outdoors each day, within government guidelines, to try and blow those cobwebs away.
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Sanctuary and Sabbath – youth work in 2020 It may feel like a cliché but it’s pretty clear that in the years to come historians will study this time we are living in now to see how different countries and communities responded to the various concerns that are currently making waves: Covid-19; the responses of
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Mentoring in a Pandemic As I write this we are just a couple of weeks into these new ‘stay at home: save lives’ times: an effective lockdown situation in which we cannot meet with others face to face, except at a distance, not least because most places that would be meeting places are closed due
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