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Deep Impact Seminars

Apprentice Leaders: Being Mentored

If you have a heart to work with young people but feel to young well stop thinking that way and come along to this seminar and hear top tips for starting out, encouraging stories, sharing together our experiences plus the bonus of DOUGHNUTS...Look forward to seeing you!!!

Apprentice Leaders: Child Protection

As many of you will know, the 16-18 year age group is a grey area in terms of adult status and responsibility. This seminar is designed to help those in that age group negotiate some off the issues involved in child protection.

Apprentice Leaders: Planning

Planning can be a headache but something that leaders have to do. This workshop will be very interactive and participatory as we look at the basics of planning youth work. Come with your experience, ideas and questions for a plan-tastic workshop!

Apprentice Leaders: Spiritual Gifts and Young People

This is a seminar, similar to the one in teh main programme but specifically designed for apprentice leaders. It will be looking at what are spiritual gifts, where do the come from and how do we grow in using them.

Child Protection - Train the Trainer

All Seminar titles and topics are subject to confirmation. Just thought it would be good to let you know what we're looking to run within the seminar programme!

Child Protection Basics

All Seminar titles and topics are subject to confirmation. Just thought it would be good to let you know what we're looking to run within the seminar programme!

Child Protection: Young People and the Web

The internet is a new and uncharted country which, like most new places, has benefits and drawbacks. Like any other place it provides risks and opportunities for young people and adults alike. Join us to explore some of the risks and opportunities presented by the internet in safe and sensible ways.

Christian Youth Work in a Secular World

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Creatively Using Weekends Away

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Dealing with issues of identity and freedom with young people

The world of 15-18s is complicated with all kinds of pressures from different places. This seminar will explore what these issues are and offer practical advice on how young people can be set free from them to live life in all it's fullness.

Deeper: Groupwork Skills

The seminar aims to give an overview of how to professionally organise and facilitate group work sessions as well as tips on how to deal with attitudes and behaviours within groups.

Deeper: Jesus and EDI Philosophy

"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be." Goethe

Deeper: The Standards Council

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Deeper: Working With Young Men - A Whole New Approach

In April 2008 YMCA Scotland brought together twelve senior practitioners from a range of disciplines and institutions that have a concern for excluded young men. The discussion focused on how we support and perceive young men in Scotland who are at risk or who struggle to achieve their fullest potential. A paper, which will be the basis for this seminar, was published that aimed to state the case for "a whole new approach to working with young men in Scotland"

Detached Youth Work

This seminar offers two sections 1. A step by step walk through the practical issues involved in setting up and running a detached programme. 2. A deeper reflection on issues that arise out of this type of work, implications for models of church and workers' own spirituality.

Developing a Worship Group

We will be looking at some of the differnt elements of leading worship within the various context of church life. Touching on waht it says about worship in the Bible, theology and worship, revelation and response, how to grow your team and making music happen.

Environmental Youth Work?

This activity based seminar will provide an opportunity for youth workers to get equipped to draw environmental issues into their youth work. It will look at environmental care, justice and the response of the faith community to climate change, drawing on Biblical principles.

Ethics and Theology

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Family-Based Youth Work

Imagine doing youth work in a completely different way, from a different source to a different clientele. That's family-based youth work! ... and no, you don;t have to have a family to do it!

First Aid Basics

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Food Hygiene

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Funding Youthwork

Fraser will discuss how to approach funding that might deliver a better chance of providing a sustainable base.

Ideas for Getting Young People Into The Bible

This session will practically look at how we can use methods from a whole variety of Christian traditions, some old and some new, to engage young people with the Bible. *This seminar will be useful for both beginner and expert audience.

Mentoring and Being Mentored

We often dream of working with loads of young people, yet the most effective work comes through one to one relationships. Come and hear some ideas for you to develop a strategy of mentoring all the young people in your programmes, and the value of seeking out a mentor for yourself.

Nationally Recognised Award Schemes

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Prayer Ideas That Work

Prayer with young people is an adventure. God is creative and we can be very creative in our relationship with Him...and prayer can be fun! Come and join in with us to find out more.

Raising Up Young Leaders: Safety Nets and Tight Ropes

Releasing teenagers into leadership is not only a discipleship issue, but essential for any youth ministry intent on growing. Come and explore the 'safety nets' that need to be in place and how you can mobilize young people onto the 'tight ropes' of influencing their peers and leading in your local context.

Rural Youth Work

An exploration of the issues arising from working with young people in rural situations. We will develop the strengths and difficulties of this work and by the end have begun setting up a network of rural youth workers...open to all levels of experience.

Sparking The Imagination of Young People

This seminar is about effectively using technology to communicate the Gospel to the 'xbox generation'. It will help you get equipped to effectively use a minimal amount of technology to present visuals to young people that will really GRAB THEIR ATTENTION.

Spiritual Gifts and Young People

What they are, where they come from and how we grow in using them. This seminar will explore this area so we are equipped in the way God intends us to be so we can bring the kingdom of God on this earth.

Strategic Planning

Would you like your youth work to be more strategic? What even is strategy? In the Strategic Planning seminar we'll look at the journey of getting from where our youth work is now to where we want it to be - how we can take those dreams and make them reality. If yuo have planning responsibility in your work with young people, come and find out the steps on that journey and ways to get you there.

The Cafe Church Experience!

This is NOT a seminar or workshop. This is a time of worship. It's a gathering of church. It's a time to reflect, laugh, pnder, be still, be active, embark on some one-anothering, and enjoy meeting Jesus over a coffee and a muffin...it's cafe church, a fresh expression and a way to develop authentic friendships while encountering Jesus...and maybe there'll be some ideas you can take home and plant there...if Jesus asks you to! Come and gather with us, in preparation for the BIG Gathering yet to come...

Using Nationally Recognised Award Schemes

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Web Discipleship; Blogging, Skype, Podcasts etc.

Don't know your RSS from your Bebo? The internet has revolutionised communication and leisure but youth work has largly been left behind. Join us to explore the benefits and pitfalls of life online.

What Makes a Youth Friendly Church?

Let's discuss - is this a fantasy or a reality? Can such a thing exist this side of Heaven? What steps can we take to get the youth and the rest of the congregation mutually respecting each other or...even loving each other?

Young People, Sexuality and Relationships

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