Case study: Being a Young Trainer and running Leading for the Future activities Summary: Alice’s journey through Woodcraft Folk and into youth work is a brilliant example of youth leadership and the opportunities Woodcraft Folk gives: having grown up in the Folk, Alice came back as an Elfin and Pioneer leader, then trained as a Young Trainer to use her facilitation skills more widely around Woodcraft. Now she’s doing a youth work MA and running Woodcraft’s Leading for the Future programme with a group of young carers. Recommendations: Becoming a Young Trainer opens doors to more opportunities
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Go into any new project with a lot of enthusiasm to give, but also the need to learn new things that you don't quite understand yet Silliness and taking things out of the box is a good way to deliver training! Leading for the Future activities work with young people outside Woodcraft—just make sure you explain the terminology, and think about adapting the activities to relate directly to the experiences of the young people you’re working with
Useful links: Leading for the Future: https:// woodcraft.org.uk/leadingforthefuture
Check the Woodcraft calendar for “Leadin g for th e Future upcoming training: useful t has bee o them n and som www.woodcraft.org.uk/calendar that the ething y c a n use to b What happened: develop uild on Get a mentor to help you take on a new and their gr o I've always had an interest up.” role: www.woodcraft.org.uk/mentoring in empowering young people. I felt that Young Trainer training would equip me with the skills Soon after becoming a Young Trainer, I applied to do to get more involved in Woodcraft beyond my District in an MA in Youth Work. Young Trainers was a massive the North East. I also hoped to make new friends. On the help in the application process. Now I’m using training weekend, I got new ideas and skills. It was a very Woodcraft’s Leading for the Future programme on enjoyable weekend and I felt I’d achieved a great deal. my youth work placement, to run activities for a As a Young Trainer, I facilitated a session at a practicepanel of young carers. I thought it would be hard to sharing weekend at Lockerbrook, which has been one of run with a non Woodcraft audience but all the young my most enjoyable residentials yet! I also helped run people get so much out of it and seem to have a Woodcraft activities at Co-operatives United, a huge good time, getting stuck into everything. Their festival of co-operatives in Manchester. Seeing people’s worker said they’ve done things with me he’s been reactions at the end of a training session is probably the trying to help them do for years! best part of being a Young Trainer.