All Issues articles – Page 48
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IssuesMinistry of Laughter
What place does humour have in our work with young people? Becca Dean explores the links between spirituality and laughter, and draws on her own research in this area to present practical tips on how to ensure humour builds relationships – not barriers – among teenagers.
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The Last Word: Redwoods and Lighthouses
I’m on holiday in Big Sur, California, as I write this. It’s on the central Californian coast, and is known for its massive sea cliffs and stunning vistas of the Pacific Ocean.
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IssuesThe Last Word
I think 11–14s are amazing, and are way under-appreciated as an age group. So, without reservation, I give you 12 things I love about working with young teenagers:
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IssuesQ&A: Richard Langmead
Urban Saints have appointed Richard Langmead as their new CEO. Editor Jamie Cutteridge spoke to him about his new role
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IssuesLaw and Land
In his second column on getting to grips with the Old Testament, Nick Shepherd unravels the themes of Law and Land.
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IssuesThe Youth Work Lab: Participation
Welcome to the Youth Work Lab: the place where key youth work theories are tried and tested by on-the-ground practitioners. Each month,
the team from StreetSpace selects and explores a piece of youth work theory, and puts it to the test in creative and pioneering ways -
IssuesThe Youth work Lab: Mentoring
Welcome to the Youth Work Lab: the place where key youth work theories are tried and tested by on-the-ground practitioners. Each month,
the team from StreetSpace selects and explores a piece of youth work theory, and puts it to the test in creative and pioneering ways -
IssuesThe Youth Work Lab: Leadership
Welcome to the Youth Work Lab: the place where key youth work theories are tried and tested by on-the-ground practitioners. Each month, the team from StreetSpace selects and explores a piece of youth work theory, and puts it to the test in creative and pioneering ways.
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IssuesYouth Work Lab: Self-directed learning
This year we’ve seen the Youthwork Summit, Youthwork the Conference and SoulNet all take time out from their regular slots in the Christian youth work training calendar. These conferences work hard at offering spaces that resource, inspire and challenge a nation of youth workers and they will be missed.
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IssuesYouth Work Lab: Mindfulness
Mindfulness has gone mainstream, even making the cover of Time Magazine. Over the last 20 years, mindfulness has stepped out of its religious roots, been secularised, simplified, and gone mainstream, to meet the need of the Western context. Mindfulness is fast becoming a go-to solution in the health service, occupational health and, increasingly, in education. There a number of resources, books, training courses and projects promoting mindfulness-based interventions and approaches.
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IssuesYouth Work Lab: Starting something new
Cuts, cuts and more cuts. We all know that the youth service, both statutory and voluntary, is being squeezed on a scale not seen for 50 years. There’s probably a youth service in your area which has had to reduce capacity or disappear altogether. We hear the constant refrain in the press that austerity has hit young people the hardest: youth unemployment is at an all-time high, as is the likelihood of young people living in low-income households (almost half a million of secondary school age young people live in poverty and poverty experienced in childhood is likely to carry on into adulthood).
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IssuesYouth Work Lab: Singing
Before youth work and youth ministry got off the ground, one key way of traditional churches involving young people in the life of the faith community was through a church choir. Early church choirs weren’t only about worship, they were also a place of education. Here young people, mainly boys, would be taught to read both music and words.
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IssuesYouth Work Lab: Parents
Sometimes they don’t engage at all, sometimes they criticise the things you say and do, sometimes they speak an encouraging word and it lifts you for the rest of the term. Youth workers may focus on the young people with the core of their roles, but the role of family in youth work should never be under-estimated. Young people remain the focus of our work, but neglecting the role families can play in the ministries we are a part of can result in missed opportunities to see greater wholeness.
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IssuesYouTube Kids
Children are consuming around six and a half hours of screentime per day, with YouTube in the top three websites for young people since 2007. YouTube, along with other social media sites, is really designed for children aged over 13, but of course there’s plenty of material that younger children can and do watch.
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