I was at a conference yesterday for work Youthwork Summit which was really great. During that day I had a few conversations with old and new friends, particularly about working with young women and the difference between that and working with young men.
I had a thought, as I was reminiscing about my previous role working with homeless young women, that so much of the great progress that was made with them was when we encouraged them to tell their stories and to do that creatively - sometimes through drama or through another craft activity.
I wonder whether my interest in scrapbooking; chronicling significant milestones, events, emotions and people might be something which could add to or initiate self esteem and life skills development work with young women in a creative and safe way...as well as being huge fun and producing something really tangible at the end? Even just the journalling element of these type of projects gives some opportunity for developing literacy skills and measuring out and cutting paper, card and other equipment will help with some numeracy skills and other practical problem solving in daily life.
Certainly, it seems a possible avenue to think about and progress this year while our eventual destination in terms of Andy's journey is unclear...as it's something I could work on wherever we ended up living...
Your thoughts...know anyone doing this sort of thing already? Any suggestions of conversations or contacts I could make??
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