Training Essentials - 30 November 2025

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Training Essentials

9.30-10.00am Welcome and registration
10.00am-12noon Workshop 1 Choices
1. Understanding and Managing Wellness & Mental Health
2. Forum Theatre - Drama as a conversation starter
3. STEM - Can Santa Really Fly?
12noon-12.30pm Lunch Break
12.30-2.30pm Workshop 2 Choices
1. Building Safer Relationships
2. How to Write a miniature Play
3. Stand-up & Speak-Out: Tackling Bullying in Youth Work
2.30-2.45pm Break
2.45-4.45pm Workshop 3 Choices
1. More Than a Period: Mental Health, Energy & the Menstrual Cycle
2. Rapping & Poetry: Finding Your Voice
3. Stop Action Film
4.45pm Finish & Go home!


Workshop Choice Descriptors -

Please select your workshop choices when signing up - Plerase note: Workshop options may be subject to change.
Workshop 1
1. Understanding and Managing Wellness & Mental Health
Explore healthy coping strategies through the 5 Pillars of wellness and how they work together to identify and support overall mental health and well-being.

2. Forum Theatre - Drama as a conversation starter
Step into the story and change the ending! Using Forum Theatre, you will be put in control—creating scenes, stopping the action, and re-imagining what happens next. Through drama, debate, and creative play, we’ll tackle real issues around mental health and wellbeing, turning performance into conversation. No scripts. No stage fright.

3. Simply STEM - Can Santa Deliver His Presents in One Piece?
From Grinch Slime to Snowball Catapults, in this session you will have the chance to try out a number of fun Christmas themes STEM activities which you can take back and deliver with young people in your youth work setting.

Workshop 2 -
1. Building Safer Relationships
What healthy, unhealthy, and abusive behaviours look like in dating relationships;
-Understanding consent.
- The impact of societal norms, peer pressure, and media on young people’s perceptions of relationships.
- Personalised safety plans.
- Communication, support systems, boundary-setting skills and resources to foster respectful, healthy relationships.

2. How to Write a miniature Play
Together we’ll explore the essentials of playwriting- characters, dialogue, and conflict through quick, creative exercises, before shaping these ideas into a short play of your own.

3. Stand-up & Speak-Out: Tackling Bullying in Youth Work
Empower yourself to spot the signs, start the conversations, and support young people to stand up against bullying online and offline. Bullying takes many forms and as youth workers, we’re often on the frontlines. This fast-paced, practical session will equip you with tools and strategies to confidently address bullying in your work with young people.

Workshop 3 -
1. More Than a Period: Mental Health, Energy & the Menstrual Cycle
Challenge the common negative narratives around the menstrual cycle, while exploring the different seasons of the menstrual cycle and how each phase can influence daily life from feeling more social and creative, to needing rest and reflection. Raising awareness PMS, PMDD and Endometriosis and normalising conversations around menstruation and mental health to reduce shame and isolation.

2. Rapping & Poetry: Finding Your Voice
Explore the power of words through song-writing and poetry. In this workshop, you’ll play with rhyme, rhythm, and flow to create your own lyrics or spoken-word piece. With fun, guided activities, we’ll turn personal ideas into performances that inspire and connect.

3. Simply STEM
From Grinch Slime to Snowball Catapults, in this session you will have the chance to try out a number of fun STEM activities which you can take back and deliver with young people in your youth work setting.

We will make every effort to ensure this space is safe and inclusive for all, please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure this is a positive learning experience for you.

Our funding supports training to be delivered to Residents of Scotland only.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
A £25 non-attendance fee will be applied where cancellation has not been received 24hours in advance of the event.

Youth worker training is in high demand – please help us support youth workers to access the training and development they deserve with these simple steps:

1. Tell us if you cannot attend more than 24hrs in advance. This allows us to free up the space for another youth worker (many sessions are oversubscribed) and means you will avoid being charged the £25 fee for late-notice cancellation or non-attendance.
2. Check you can join with camera and microphone. Our online training is engaging, interactive and discussion-based – not a webinar format. Our members regularly tell us this is better learning and we are confident you will gain more.
3. Eventbrite sends you all your information by email. You will receive your ticket at booking and be sent a reminder – with any login details if online – approximately 24hrs in advance. If there are materials and handouts, your facilitator will send these too.

Thank you for using our training and helping us to continue supporting the needs of our members and community-based youth work.

CANCELLATION POLICY:

A £25 non-attendance fee will be applied where cancellation has not been received in advance of the event(24 hours before the event).

Please note: if you have been charged a fee to attend this training, training fees are non-refundable, where a cancellation has not been received in advance of the event starting.

You/your group will then receive an invoice.

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