by admin | Apr 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Building Confident Young People – Why Early Support Matters Confidence is often treated as something that comes with age. We tell ourselves young people will grow out of any anxieties or worries they have as a child and as they hit adulthood, wham, everything...
by admin | Mar 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
‘I don’t want to be here’. It’s something I occasionally hear from a child at the beginning of a confidence coaching session. Sometimes it’s said quietly, with eyes fixed on the floor, sometimes it’s defensive, and sometimes it’s wrapped in humour, but...
by admin | Jan 9, 2026 | Charity, Children, Mental Health, Partnerships, Relationships, Schools, Wellbeing, Young People, Youth Centre, Youth Work
Can a youth club revival help the ‘anxious generation’? – podcast | Young people | The Guardian As I sat in the dark by a smouldering fire before heading to bed, one of the youth work forums I’m part of shared a link to an article in The Guardian with a...
by admin | Jan 8, 2026 | Children, Coaching, Young People
Finding Warmth in the Cold It was a bitterly cold winter’s day. The first Monday of January 2026. My role as Front of House Manager with Creation Theatre had come to an end the day before and it was time to reopen the practice room and welcome in my first coaching...
by admin | Nov 12, 2025 | Mental Health, Theatre, Wellbeing
How will you touch somebody else's today with your truth? Sitting on a cold staircase alone, in silence, I had got through half a packet of pink wafer biscuits in ten minutes. Then an arm wrapped around me. It was my wife. Well, the wonderful lady playing my wife on...
