A creative and innovative approach to youth work
2020
A creative and innovative approach to youth work
Between 14 and 16 January, more than 2700 youth workers met in Finland for the YOUTH2020 conference. The conference proposed interesting keynote speeches, workshops, panel discussions, and all sorts of other events for professionals and volunteers working in the youth sector.
During the event, the e-handbook “Developing Youth Work Innovation” was presented to the participants. This e-handbook is focused on Innovation in youth work and it is intended for practitioners who are looking for innovative tools to use in their activities with young people, including digital youth work. The approaches covered are: Art of Hosting, Design Thinking, Humour Techniques, Learning Experience Design, Digital Storytelling (animation), Gamification, Photovoice and Visualisation.
In the e-handbook, practitioners can also find step-by-step methods and activity descriptions that can be directly transferred to their daily work.
The e-handbook is an innovative output itself, since in youth work there are no publications specifically about creativity and innovation.
