Youth Worker Training Essentials Day - 09/03/2026

Youth Worker Training Essentials Day - 09/03/2026

Please note: Your booking won't be accepted until you provide all your details. We need all your information, to be able to ensure we have a space for you.

Youth Worker Training Essentials Day 9th March 2026

A day designed to offer a range of fun, relevant and interactive activities that you can integrate into your existing practice with young people. All workshops are designed around the needs of young people and reflect Scotland’s National Youth Work Outcomes and Skills Framework, building skills and improving outcomes for all our young people.

· Build a toolkit of interactive resources and techniques to support the delivery and exploration of a range of relevant and creative topics.

· Learn how to easily adapt your toolkit and skill set to different settings (school, community, outreach), different ages and abilities of young people.

· Build confidence to deliver engaging and empowering sessions.

· Build on current skills, knowledge and practice to improve outcomes for your young people.

· Network and share practice with other youth workers.

Schedule

9.30-10.00am Welcome and registration

10.00am-12noon Workshop 1 Choices

1. Introduction to Understanding Young Peoples Mental Health and Wellbeing: Build confidence to explore mental health through positive, practical and fun activities that increase awareness and understanding, reduce stigma and promote prevention.
2. Drama as a conversation starter: Use drama techniques to engage young people, spark discussion, and explore real-life issues in a creative space. No previous experience is required.
3. Simply STEM: Design, build, and test solutions using recycled or everyday waste items to explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts using junk materials.

12noon-12.30pm Lunch Break

12.30-2.30pm Workshop 2 Choices

1. Relationship Exploitation: An interactive workshop exploring the complexity of teenage relationship exploitation.
2. How to Write a miniature Play: A practical guide for youth workers to create short, impactful plays that spark reflection, discussion and positive change and amplify young peoples' voices.
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.

2.30-2.45pm Break

2.45-4.45pm Workshop 3 Choices

1. More Than a Period: Mental Health, Energy & the Menstrual Cycle: Feel confident and normalise conversations around menstruation and menstrual health. This is a must for all male workers.
2. Finding you voice through Rapping & Poetry: Use beat and rhythm to connect and tell stories, giving young people a chance to have their voice heard in a completely unique way.
3. Stop Action Film: Introduction to the basics of creating animation using simple materials and cameras or tablets. Plan, build and create your own story. By the end of the workshop, you will have created a short stop-motion 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
How to effectively and confidently work with mental health and wellbeing within a group setting.

2. Drama as a conversation starter
Step into the story and change the ending! No scripts. No stage fright. Just your ideas, your voice, and the power to rewrite the story.

3. Simply STEM

Workshop 2 -

1. Relationship Exploitation

Exploring the complexity of teenage relationship exploitation.

2. How to Write a miniature Play
Discover how to write your own play! No previous experience is needed - just imagination and a willingness to have a go. Experiment, share ideas and bring stories to life.

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.

Workshop 3 -

1. More Than a Period: Mental Health, Energy & the Menstrual Cycle
Feeling confident in normalising conversations around menstruation and mental health. This is a must for all male workers!

2. Rapping & Poetry: Finding Your Voice
With fun, guided activities, we’ll turn your words into ideas that will inspire. You’ll have written and had the chance to perform something uniquely yours, discovering how words can boost confidence and spark imagination.

3. Stop Action Film


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.

Explore the different seasons (winter, spring, summer and autumn) of the menstrual cycle and how each phase can influence daily life from feeling more social and creative, to needing rest and reflection.

Raise awareness of menstrual related conditions such as PMS, PMDD and Endometriosis

Normalise conversations around menstruation and mental health to reduce shame and isolation

Explore the different seasons (winter, spring, summer and autumn) of the menstrual cycle and how each phase can influence daily life from feeling more social and creative, to needing rest and reflection.

Raise awareness of menstrual related conditions such as PMS, PMDD and Endometriosis

Normalise conversations around menstruation and mental health to reduce shame and isolation

No scripts. No stage fright. Just your ideas, your voice, and the power to rewrite the story.

Increase understanding of mental health and wellbeing.

What impacts young people's mental health.

Exploring stigma and how to tackle this.

Explore positive strategies that effectively manage stress, worries and anxiety.

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.