In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, "Thinking Critically About Youth Work: Part Two", Aaron continues to speak with Dr. Brian Belton about the need for youth workers to be critically reflective about who we are as professionals.
Taking our conversation up to the next level we sp…
Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast
by Aaron Garth
The Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast is your no-nonsense guide to levelling up your youth work practice and career. Every episode gives you practical strategies, fresh research, and real-world insights you can use right now to become a more principled, passionate, and professional youth worker. Hosted by veteran Youth Worker and Academic Aaron Garth, this podcast cuts through the fluff and delivers what today's youth workers need to thrive. If you're ready to sharpen your skills, boost your confidence, and lead with impact hit play and join the Youth Work Revolution.
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In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, "Thinking Critically About Youth Work: Part One", Aaron speaks with Dr. Brian Belton about the need for youth workers to be critically reflective about who we are as professionals. Over the years we have had some really great deep web chats wit…
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, "Listen to Engage", Aaron speaks to us about the need for youth workers to listen respectfully to their young people. On of the keys to developing respectful engagement with our young people is the skill of listening to gain understanding of ho…
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast "Supervision" Aaron speaks to us about the need for youth workers to have good professional supervision. As an industry that claims professional status it is ludicrous that most of our members do not receive a minimum of monthly professional sup…
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast "Why research must inform your practice" Aaron speaks to us about the need to use evidence based practice in our youth work. We look at the need for professionals to have a theory base in their industry which informs the way they practice.
In todays podcast "Planning your year ahead" Aaron helps us to think about the areas we need to plan for our best year in 2021. We look at our personal and professional lives and set about planning eight areas to develop the best possible start to the year.
Planning for your year ahead
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In todays podcast "2021 Resolutions" Aaron muses on the future of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast and all the other goodies that the team are putting together over the next year. We are so excited to see what this year has to unfold. After last year and the huge trial that 2020 was for so many peo…
In this episode of the Ultimate youth Worker Podcast 'Child Rights' Aaron and Jessy give us some insight into the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child and how youth workers can use the articles within it to sharpen their practice.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the C…
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'National Principles for Child Safe Organisations' Aaron gives us an overview of the ten principles and where they came from. As youth workers our sector has always championed the rights of the child however there hasn't been a standard that we al…
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'Raise the age' Aaron speaks with Jessica Sanders from Jesuit Social Services 'Worth a Second Chance' project about how we can understand the legal issue of the age of criminal responsibility and how we might support the campaign to raise it from …
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'Cultural Intelligence PART 2' Aaron continues to speak with Gregg Morris from Mahana Culture about how we can begin to gain some Cultural Intelligence. As youth workers we have a developing Intelligence or IQ eg. theory that informs our youth wor…
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'Cultural Intelligence PART 1' Aaron speaks with Gregg Morris from Mahana Culture about how we can begin to gain some Cultural Intelligence. As youth workers we have a developing Intelligence or IQ eg. theory that informs our youth work practice. …
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'Self Care 201' Aaron chats with us about how we can take our self care journey to the next level. We have run self care training using our balanced life framework for eight years and in almost every session some says something along the lines of …
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'Self Care in Youth Work' Aaron chats with Ex-student panel about self care in youth work. How do youth work practitioners leave work at work? Do relationships, boundaries and practices change when we engage in self care? What supports do youth wo…
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'Online Youth Work' Aaron chats with us about how to conduct a critical incident debrief. We look at two models and unpack how individuals and teams can best use the debriefing process to look after themselves and reflect on the best ways forward.…
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'Online Youth Work' Aaron chats with Wolfgang Vachon from the C2YPodcast about youth work in the virtual realm. How do youth work practitioners work in the virtual realm? Do relationships, boundaries and practices change when interacting with you…
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'I want to quit' Aaron speaks to us about how to resign from a youth work position well. Regularly at Ultimate Youth Worker we speak with people who are ready to move on from the position they are in. It may be that they are moving on to greener p…
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'Getting your first youth work job' Aaron speaks with the Ex-student panel about how we can get that first youth work job. Every week we get questions at Ultimate Youth Worker about how people can transition from student to youth work employee. So…
In todays episode Aaron speak about the growing research into stress and how we have been taught to think about it all wrong. We have been told for many decades that stress is bad for us. That we need to run away from stressful situations because stress causes significant physical health concerns.
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In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast Aaron speaks with Neil Milton about his journey to founding Positive T-Shirts. We discuss why Neil decided to support the cause of suicide prevention and how you can get a great bit of merchandise to aid the cause.
Neil Milton is the founder of…