This session will run on the basis of the Open Space model - come along ready to share your ideas and hear from others about their mahi!
Learn more about Open Space here.
Snapshot sessions give you a 'snapshot' of a range of awesome projects happening across the motu - and beyond! You'll hear from all the presenters below, and there'll be a chance for questions and answers afterward.
'I can't do this anymore' - responding to crisis posts online
Young people post online about difficult experiences and personal crisis every day. Those who work with them should feel confident to respond in the ways that are most meaningful to the young person, whether online or in-person. Zeal have now developed a full workshop on how to understand and respond to this online behaviour, effectively and safely. In this snapshot you'll hear some of our key insights and tips, learn some of what drives this behaviour, hear about the research that informed this workshop, and find out where you can hear more.
Zeal, together with The Collaborative Trust, worked to gather and analyse the voices of over 1000 young people from around Aotearoa. Learning from these voices, we can take an informed and positive path forward with young people online.
Co-designing with young people: Practices in e-mental health
Using multimedia approaches, we will present a range of approaches to co-designing digital tools to support the health and well-being of young people (e-Mental Health tools). We will share video (of young people sharing their experience of the co-design process) and photographic material as a way of describing the various processes we have engaged young people in. We will highlight the challenges of shifting from traditional research practice to using this methodology, and the rich experience gained when those with lived experience are engaged in a meaningful way. We will share the products developed during our various co-design processes, including Starship Rescue, a computer game for treating anxiety in children with long-term physical conditions, a self-monitoring app for use during treatment of depression in young people, and HABITS, an emotional health and substance use app with an eHealth platform.
Problem Gaming: "Geek is the new black"
The World Health Organisation has listed Gaming Addiction as a 'disorder' - and you don't have to go far to find controversial headlines such as "Scandal of online video games luring children into betting". Despite this, computer games are amazing, they are fun, and they're are a central part of youth culture. Furthermore the professional gaming scene is followed by tens of millions of fans worldwide with competitions even now in New Zealand high schools. All of this leaves us as youth professionals wondering what this might mean for young people's wellbeing, when we should or shouldn't be worried, and what we should do in light of any of this. SORTED has developed a pathway to support young people with gaming problems and created professional, youth friendly resources to help raise awareness for parents and professionals, as well as engage young people regarding how this issue can lead to disconnection and how to maintain balance.
Connecting with schools - and especially English teachers - to help young people explore their identity through their reading and writing
High school English teachers are the largest group of youth workers - they work with virtually all teenagers. The English curriculum means they deal with issues of identity, relationships, and the pervasively dystopian world view of the media. The critical issues you confront around alienation, identity, suicide, love - these are in everything an English class confronts, from Shakespeare to Apirana Taylor. Teachers need support to deal well with these, especially for those students who are struggling.
This snapshot presentation will give you practical ideas on contacting and collaborating with teachers, learning from each other, and providing opportunities for young people. From resources to support particular topics, to offers to speak to a class or to teachers about an issue, or requests for student input into one of your projects, we can find ways of working well together. We have been in silos too long.
New approaches and cool tools to engage with young people
We know different approaches are needed to engage young people today. Join us to hear how peer crowds (groups of young people with shared values and lifestyles) were used to examine drinking behaviours in New Zealand, and find out how these insights can be used to further support youth development across Aotearoa. We’ll also show you how young people have helped to create resources and what that process looks like.
This session will be structured slightly differently – hear a 30-minute presentation on the peer crowd approach and findings, followed by bus stop presentations highlighting different ways to engage with young people. Choose two of the following bus stops:
- Play Your Best Card: A novel card game to develop critical thinking and facilitate conversations;
- Brief advice pocket cards that provide drug and alcohol harm reduction advice;
- How peer crowds can help to improve service delivery and create resources
Navigating the cultural adaptation of a youth mentoring programme through Pacific waters
There is mounting evidence that youth mentoring can be a transformative community initiative enhancing the lives of those being mentored as well as those who mentor. This may explain why mentoring has grown in popularity internationally, and why there is growing interest in scaling up effective programmes to benefit diverse communities.
Effective programs are those that are borne out of local needs, designed and implemented to address these needs and informed by evidence-based principles and robust research. Campus Connections (CC), developed by Colorado State University, is one such programme and its success has resulted in increased demand, including in the vastly different cultural context of Aotearoa. Using CC as a vehicle, the presenters will share their journey of culturally adapting CC to meet the needs of the local context; and through the workshop provide an interactive opportunity for participants to explore how these learnings might be applied to their own initiatives.
Southseas MYSTORY
The MYSTORY personal storytelling workshop is an interactive workshop delivered based on the three modules of the 'head', the 'heart' and the 'hands'. Led by one facilitator (Southseas CEO Silao Visola-Sefo), and supported by our Team Leaders, the workshop will allow for up to 20 participants. Each Team Leader will work with groups of four to five participants.
At the heart of MYSTORY is that its foundations draw on the works of Professor Marshall Ganz of Harvard Business School around public narrative and organising, and the innovative approach developed by Southcentral Foundation's 'Nuka System of Care' (Anchorage, Alaska) which is heavily focused on community engagement and ownership and relationships.
The workshop has three key areas: The Art of Storytelling, Storytelling 101 and a Call to Action. The workshop is highly interactive with a range of speakers, and sharing in small huddle groups, with videos and plenty of information to keep participants informed and asking questions.
Snapshot sessions give you a 'snapshot' of a range of awesome projects happening across the motu - and beyond! You'll hear from all the presenters below, and there'll be a chance for questions and answers afterward.
Transformative Youth Work evaluation
Standard youth work accountability systems usually collect the data that is 'easiest to collect'. Whilst this data can be valuable for some purposes, a reliance on easy to collect data leads to a skewed assessment of youth work and misses the 'essence' of what youth work is about. The Transformative Youth work research projects that are happening in at least six countries are gathering some of this missing data, to provide a more nuanced picture of what youth work can achieve. This presentation provides an overview of the process, an outline of the benefits, and a summary of the preliminary findings from Australia.
Mana centred leadership
Tū Moana runs training development that helps individuals identify what lies at their personal foundation, so that we can support and journey alongside diverse communities. Tū Moana has emerged as a response to the growing conversations of how we do diversity better.
Aotearoa is being shaped by the search for meaningful and authentic bi-cultural practice set to a multi-cultural backdrop. Tū Moana understands that culture is crafted through the dynamism of interlinking and sometimes conflicting sources. As such, we believe that our collective response to diversity not only shapes what is possible to do, but what is possible to be and become.
The mana-centred approach draws on both western and indigenous ways of understanding yourself, regardless of your cultural background, as a first step to understanding others. Venturing into Mana-Centred Leadership training provides the agency and insight needed to work with and in diverse teams, organisations and communities.
Full of beans : Alternative pathways for change at the Odyssey Café youth training programme
Odyssey Café is a social enterprise offering a part-time work experience and one-on-one training programme for young people in our residential treatment programme. Many have experienced challenges with formal education, and have limited or no work experience. The programme links vocational training with evidence around 'recovery capital', demonstrably increasing social connectedness and a sense of hope for the future: 75% of trainees have moved into employment, education or continued with treatment within six months of being on the programme.
This snapshot will share learnings about why Odyssey started the venture, how we went about setting it up and what we've learnt during our first year. We'll talk about the theory of change which helped guide the development of the programme, as well as how participation in the programme supports the development of social capital. We'll share commentary from whānau and staff, as well as interviews with Café graduates.
Reaching out from the inside
A short audio-visual presentation using youth voice through storytelling, art and music that captures the experience of youth in prison who transition back to the community. This will be told from a strengths-based approach from the perspective of hope and aspirations, as well as resilience, belonging and restoration in the face of their challenges.
Looking back: Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
This panel will provide hilarious and poignant commentary, both on our sector’s long history and on where we find ourselves in August 2018. We’ve stacked a panel with experienced, wise and generous people who will illuminate a long(ish) view of our sector, complete with terrifying anecdotes and stories of sector intrigue and mystery.
Come and feel inspired! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll leave knowing you’re part of a sector with a rich past and hopeful future.
Evolve: Where primary health care and youth development meet
An interactive workshop diving into the theories of primary health care and youth development and how they merge together, creating a space of innovation and change. Explore the space and stories of youth workers teaming up with GPs, nurses providing outreach to much needed schools, and counsellors stretching their theories and practice for better youth health outcomes. In attending this workshop, you will also have a guided tour of Wellington city's only youth one stop shop, Evolve!
What will you get out of this workshop? You will experience a fun-filled, practical and enlightening approach to working with young people, health professionals and youth development workers.
Youth workers' responsibilities in shifting the barriers for rainbow rangatahi
A series of organisations presenting the current youth development models and practices that aim to support and improve the mental health and wellbeing of rangatahi in Aotearoa who may be exploring or are sexuality, gender identity and sex characteristic diverse.
Areas of expertise will cover: peer support within communities, establishing improved safety and belonging in schools, rainbow accessible health and wellbeing care and education, takatāpui perspectives and intersex awareness.
Hosted by InsideOUT.
A skills development workshop on attunement: The secret ingredient to successful relationships within the youth mentoring system
Dr. Pryce believes in the potential role of non-parental adults in the lives of young people, and has devoted her research career to studying the nature of these adults-youth relationships through mentoring and other supportive relationships. Her presentation will focus on the concept of attunement - a set of skills among mentors and staff that facilitate relationship connection.
Through this workshop, participants will learn what attunement looks like. Through sharing an evidence-informed practice model (The Mentoring FAN - Facilitating Attuned Interactions), Dr. Pryce will illustrate how programs can develop attunement among their staff and mentors, and how attunement can improve relationships across the mentoring system. She will also introduce the pilot results from the Mentor Attunement Scale, a measure developed with New Zealand colleagues to assess levels of attunement among volunteer mentors, and will invite partners to pilot the scale in their agencies.
PARTH: Practice that makes a difference for young people
This workshop introduces the PARTH model: an approach to providing meaningful support for young people who experience complex challenges. The model emerged out of the findings of the Pathways to Resilience and Successful Youth Transitions studies. These studies investigated the service use experiences of young people (statutory and NGOs: welfare, youth justice, mental health and education support services); their key transitions; and their perspectives on what constituted meaningful support from formal services and from informal networks including family, peers, and community (see youthsay.co.nz for more information). The presentation explores each of the core elements of the PARTH model and their application in practice. It will provide participants with an opportunity to reflect on how the PARTH model could inform their own work with young people.
Snapshot sessions give you a 'snapshot' of a range of awesome projects happening across the motu! You'll hear from all the presenters below, and there'll be a chance for questions and answers afterward.
'Who Are You?' - Effective sexual violence prevention education for young people
The Sexual Abuse Prevention Network's (SAPN) 'Who Are You?' (WAY) programme aims to educate participants about sexual violence prevention and ethical sexual decision making. This is achieved by addressing sexual violence definitions, the law and consent, what it means to be an ethical bystander and the different ways in which we all can be ethical bystanders. Students who participated in the WAY programme in 2017/18 were asked to complete an evaluation relating to the programme's content, its value as an educational programme, and the competency of SAPN facilitators. This presentation explores reflections on our work from a youth perspective and includes some key recommendations for information collection and evaluation.
Youth voice in school drug policy
This presentation is based on emerging data from my Ph.D., which is examining how schools develop and implement their school drug policy. This research has looked at this from a school staff, community, and student perspective. Very little research has been done in this area and it will make a valuable contribution to schools and to young people in New Zealand. This presentation will focus on tensions that arise from multiple perspectives and how to engage young people in research and give value and meaning to their contributions. This presentation will discuss the challenges that presented throughout the study, the key findings from the study, and how we can move forward with the young people's solutions.
Unheard Voices: Domestic sex trafficking of rangatahi and foundations for effective intervention
Sex trafficking and forced prostitution are widely conceived as problems of 'other places'. Accordingly, there is minimal research exploring the experiences of New Zealanders who identify as having been coerced or trafficked to sell sex. Using narrative inquiry, I interviewed 16 survivors of forced prostitution or trafficking, and surveyed practitioners interacting with them. Survivors' narratives were threaded with themes of being silenced and invisibilised, even by professionals accustomed to working with more accepted categories of interpersonal violence. Further, a lack of definitional consensus and socio-political awareness of trafficking largely precluded identification of victims. However, survivors provided insight into possibilities for effective intervention and meaningful engagement that could enable long-term safety.
How young people are tackling bullying
Since 2013, Sticks 'n Stones has empowered young people to make a difference to attitudes, behaviours and norms that accept bullying. From its formation, we have been at the heart of all decision making and we think this has been a huge part in our success. Having a real chance to play our part in creating change (one person at a time) and challenging perceptions (and misperceptions) of our ideas, experiences and issues makes our involvement feel meaningful. In our presentation, we will share how our organisation works, our experience of why this is successful and our advice about taking our experience and applying it to other groups.
Youth Participation, Power and Ethics: moving beyond models, exploring the complexity and enhancing our practice
We love geeking out about youth participation models and sharing experiences of how this stuff happens in real life with young people and organisations. This workshop is a chance to gather with fellow geeks, share some stories, wrestle with some theories/tensions, and work together to lift our game with youth participation nationwide.
This is a highly interactive, honest, experiential and participatory (pun intended!) workshop. Join us and be prepared to: