The Talking Youth Work Podcast

Hello dear listeners, In this episode, we talked with two very interesting women entrepreneurs: Angelica Perra and Barbara Földi, who are part of the Pool of Trainers of the Youth@Work Partnership that has placed women's entrepreneurship and economic empowerment among their 9 priorities -  https://youthatworkpartnership.org/priorities/ . Angelica is one of the co-founders of TDM , an Italian NGO w...

With this episode we are starting a special season powered by Youth@Work , a Partnership on Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship of Erasmus+ National Agencies . In this episode we talked to Raluca Diroescu, the coordinator of Youth@Work . Raluca likes to call herself a youth work supporter. A person that supports youth work like a fan that wants the team to win. Her love for youth work started...

  Hello dear listeners,  In this episode we talked to Laimonas Ragauskas, a Lithuanian trainer and consultant in the field of Education, who has been involved in innovative online projects like   Cities of Learning , Trainers Appraisal and Badgecraft.  We are living a particular time with the COVID-19 pandemic and all the lockdowns around the world, so it made sense to talk about the digital accel...

Hello dear listeners, "To create community, we need channels where different stakeholders share their points of view.” Mark Taylor  Here is another episode that was a lot of fun to record. This time with Mark Taylor, editor of the only European online magazine focused on youth work: Coyote Magazine. We wondered if youth workers live too much in their own bubble. This view - of youth work as a clos...

First of all is good to be back! In this episode we talked with Jo Claeys, a youth worker and a trainer who together with Denis Morel and Simona Molari, developed the training "The Power of Non Formal Education". We tried to better understand what is non formal education, how it relates to other types of education, the contact points with formal education, schools and what makes this type of learn...

We are joined in this episode by Virgílo Varela, a consultant in Social and Community Innovation that talked to us about one of his main skills and passion: Dragon Dreaming. Dragon Dreaming is a systemic design process, a philosophy and a methodological framework, to create collaborative and sustainable projects, something that a lot of youth workers struggle with. For some, it's difficult to have...

In this episode we talked to Sandra Gojic, an educator passionate about movement and creating spaces where young people can express themselves. The way Sandra explores this is through Embodied Learning: an educational method that has been around for a while. In our conversation our guest shared her story, how is it was difficult for her to express herself through her body, something many of us can...

Hello dear listeners! For the kickoff of our second season we talked with Judit Balogh, she is the project coordinator for  "Europe Goes Local"  a strategic partnership to support municipal level youth work. It was a very interesting conversation where we explored this approach to international youth work: thinking long term and on local level, creating a network of municipalities that support eac...

For the last episode of season one, it’s just Anita and Rui and...you. We talked about how the first season of Talking Youth Work was for us, all the amazing people we talked to, and the biggest takeaways from each episode. There will be a Second Season of 10 episodes, and we are looking for a way to support it. If you have any ideas to fund the next season, please send us an e-mail, to talkingyou...

In this podcast Thomas Gold talks about his research on measuring the entrepreneurial mindset and how that work can inform the initiatives of youth workers. The findings from his research on entrepreneurial mindset can be found in  Measuring Entrepreneurial Mindset in Youth: Learnings from NFTE's Entrepreneurial Mindset Index. Thomas Gold is a researcher and consultant with extensive experience in...

Our guest this time is Jon Ord, Professor at the University of St Mark & St John, Plymouth, UK. During our conversation – besides the unavoidable Brexit theme and its consequences in UK Youth Work - he mentioned that some of the youth work that is still being done today is meant to “keep youngsters off the streets”, “keep them busy”, from a time when the streets were a danger. But times have c...

In this episode we talked to Andreas Karsten, a youth work researcher at European level. He has been working as a researcher in this field for quite some time so he has a very deep view about the field and what is the state of play concerning innovation in this sector. Research is very important to assess the real impact of youth work programs and allows decision-makers to decide based on evidence...

In this episode we talked with Claudius Siebel, he is the policy coordinator of the german national agency for the Erasmus+ program, and before that he was part of the team of the Key Action 2 funding line that supports innovation in youth work projects. We talked during the KA2 Now conference in Berlin last February, and it was a very enjoyable conversation about the policy making side, how can t...

The “Talking Youth Work” podcast was present at the KA2NOW conference, that took place in Berlin in February 2019, and where 60 innovative projects in the field of youth work, from all over Europe, presented their ideas and results. From board games designed to teach democracy to educational escape rooms for young people, or using visual facilitation and creative writing to empower others... there...

In this episode we talked with Joakim Arnøy from Norway, he works in the field of Youth Work as a coordinator around the topic of Remembrance. He explained us what this concept means, and in our conversation we explored this idea of looking to History and use it as a basis for reflecting about today's happenings, namely comparing past wars, and the context in which they happened, to today's’ confl...

Imagine, this is the 10th episode, and we are joined by our good friend Sérgio Gonçalves, a trainer that has a passion for board games. Sérgio has developed board games for Education and in this conversation he shares some of the ways board games can be used to learn about challenging topics like conflict transformation for example, and how educators can develop new and innovative board games that...

This episode was recorded during a Future Labs partners meeting in the beautiful Tuscany in Italy. While we were recording, during a break, some of the partners were enjoying the good weather, but we don't know who had the most fun, because we sure enjoyed very much this talk. Tomáš Pešek  is a youth trainer and also a certified coach, and we discussed some of the ways that he uses coaching with y...

"In this episode we talked to Dani Korai about the topic of Vulnerability, a sensitive and a strong topic, at the same time. Dani is a Dutch youth worker and trainer that believes in the power of Vulnerability to connect with young people. According to him, it helps them to open up and share their struggles, step by step, in what needs to be a mindful process. A safe space is needed for using vuln...

In this episode we talked to Patrycja Paula Gas, a witch as she confessed to us, but a different kind of witch, the kind that is doing  LARP - Live Action Role Playing game  - a new aproach  into a learning evironment, an immersive experience that will definetly engage the participants minds, bodies and souls. Patrycja who is a polish anthropologist, uses LARP with young people to tackle a wide ar...

Episode 6 of the Talking Youth Work podcast is with Gabi Steinprinz about Educational Escape Rooms. Gabi is - in her own words - a game addict, and also a creative person, so in a project also funded by Erasmus+ she decided to experiment joining the gaming part of escape rooms with the learning/educational part. The results were very interesting, with a high engagement of the learners, interesting...

This is truly a handful, it is our fifth episode, and our guest this time is Ellen Anthoni, who's a trendwatcher. Ellen has worked in recent years for  Trendwolves , working on their trend reports. We had another interviewer with us, Tomáš Pešek, that was a big help with very insightful questions. During our conversation with Ellen we tried to understand what is trendwatching, and how it is import...

This episode is with Stephan Schölzel, a youth worker that uses games as a vehicle to talk about other subjects with young people, and by using games we can learn about what are their concerns but also their interests.  A lot of times people criticize video games because of the absent mindedness it may cause in our children, but, if we can see the potential of engagement that video games have, we...

Here is a fresh episode of “Talking Youth”, a podcast about innovation in youth work. This time we talked with Gergely Kiss about using Improvisation Theatre with young people and the skills they develop while practicing it. Ready? 3,2,1....scene!   The book mentioned by Gery ,  "Impro for Storytellers" by Keith Johnstone First published on Tuesday Jul 24, 2018

In this episode we talked  with Nerijus Kriauciunas, an international trainer in the field of youth. Nerijus is really a reference when it comes to connecting the digital world to youth work on the field. We started talking about his personal journey  into youth work and how that shaped what he does today. in the beginning Nerijus connects references like Paulo Freire on Education and critical thi...

In the first episode the partners are discussing on the project goal and the importance for developing digital youth work. First published on Wednesday May 09, 2018