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Posted by Robin Rolls on Thursday 27 Nov 2008, 09:23AM

A few weeks ago I went to visit two friends and three strangers in a house in the middle of nowhere.  They were wanting to think about youth work, and how it could work where they were - a small village, only about 100 houses or so, not a lot happening....so we ate food and talked.

Though I've been involved in youth work for nearly half my life, I didn't really know where this could go.  I sometimes find myself in these situations, where there's a long pre-amble, and then all faces head in my direction with a 'so we are now waiting for you to provide the answers' sort of expression on them.

Well needless to say I didn't have the answers at all, and I rarely have - for anyone :)  But I did enjoy the dinner, and our conversations, and the friendships.  But most of all, I enjoyed the fact that right in the heart of nowhere in particular, there are amazing people doing amazing things.  Genuine committed, normal folks, doing honest passionate youth worky things.

It's for people like this I guess that our new sparkly youth work course is being written.  We're going for a launch sometime after Easter, and it will be 6 modules long.  Modules will consist of about 8 hours teaching time.  The course is suitable for the follwing types of pppppeeeeeepul

• Volunteers and helpers at local churches
• Part time youth workers
• Mums and Dads who help out now and again
• Clergy and managers of youth work
• Student /trainee youth workers
• Men
• Women
• Young people
• Some animals*

So there's not really anyone that can't come on the course, and more details can be found out by
e-mailing me through this website. Thanks for reading...:)

* Probably not Guinea Pigs, as their learning style is complex and they can't understand powerpoint.

Breathe in....

Posted by Robin Rolls on Monday 17 Nov 2008, 05:13PM

One of those days today - you wake up full of the joys and all that, and then life nibbles away at you and some of the joys turn into sorrows....travelling around the Diocese was inspiring today.  Perhaps one of the best bits was having a few minutes to walk around the BREATHE installation that the Cathedral have recently brought.  It's an amazing, huge and very cool Labyrinth type thing, complete with ipod music, and some excellent installations - Mr. Potato head I mean one of those real actual ones yes, it's brill, and the brainwave of some friends of mine so even better!

Get in touch with me through the website, and start breathing - it's IDEAL for young people who are exploring, searching or committed, it really is very very good!

Rob