Youth Work Training
I am a qualified and passionate Youth Worker, committed to delivering high-quality and impactful youth work training. With extensive experience across the sector — from frontline youth work and team management to working as a Youth Work Specialist with the National Youth Agency and Training & Development Manager for a large youth organisation — I bring both practical expertise and strategic insight.
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The training workshops outlined below give an overview of the training I offer, which can be delivered online or in person. If you would like to discuss tailored or more specific training workshops for your team or the young people you work with, please get in touch.
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Introduction to Youth Work
Build youth work skills, confidence, and core values through a practical, engaging course designed for new or Volunteer Youth Workers. Delivered over two full days or 4-5 shorter sessions, the course explores: What is Youth Work?, Building Relationships with Young People, Professional Boundaries, Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging, Working with behaviour that challenges, and Youth Participation.
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Facilitation Skills for Impactful Group Learning Experiences
This workshop is ideal for anyone leading group work. Impactful group learning experiences doesn’t happen by accident — it’s made possible through skilful facilitation. Whether you’re delivering a structured session or holding space for open dialogue, this interactive workshop will help you create engaging, inclusive, and purposeful learning experiences. Participants explore practical tools and approaches grounded in facilitation and group development theory.
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Supporting Young People in Recruitment
This interactive session is for youth workers, managers, and organisations who want to strengthen their co-production practice in supporting young people’s involvement in recruitment.
Involving young people in recruitment brings fresh perspectives and strengthens shared decision-making. When done well, it can be a powerful learning experience for young people and add real value to hiring processes. This training is designed to help participants feel confident, informed, and equipped to support young people to take part meaningfully in interview panels.
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Transformative Conversations with Young People
Unlock the power of purposeful conversations to support reflection, independence, and positive change in young people.
This training is designed for youth workers, teachers, social workers, mental health practitioners, and volunteers who want to build more meaningful, youth-led dialogue in their practice. Grounded in the core values of Conversations That Create Change—including strengths-based practice, shared power, and holding space—this session helps you move beyond advice-giving and into conversations that spark insight and self-direction.
You’ll learn practical, enquiry-based tools drawn from coaching, solution-focused practice, and experiential learning that can transform the way you communicate with young people. Whether working in short-term interventions or long-term relationships, this training helps you foster deeper engagement and empower young people to lead their own journey
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Confident Youth Voices in Decision-Making
This interactive workshop helps young people build the confidence, self-awareness, and assertiveness they need to participate meaningfully in decision-making spaces. Through engaging activities and reflective exercises, they will strengthen skills such as active listening, clear communication, and powerful questioning — all vital for contributing to youth forums, panels, interviews, working groups, or as Youth Trustees. By the end, young people will feel more equipped and empowered to speak up, ensuring their lived experience informs the conversations and decisions that affect them.
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Building Psychological Safety in Co-Production with Young People
For co-production with young people to be truly effective, it’s not enough to simply invite them into the process — they need to feel safe, respected, and confident that their voices will be heard and acted upon.
Psychological safety within a group is what enables young people to share openly, take risks, and use their lived experiences to shape decisions in a meaningful way.
Creating this sense of safety is absolutely essential.By the end of this 3.5-hour workshop, you’ll leave with practical strategies you can use to make your co-production work with young people safer, more inclusive, and more impactful.