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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Youth Worker
Duration: 3h
Digital
Level up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1.Recognise and identify your youth work experience, practice, skills and knowledge.

2. Realise opportunities to positively influence other youth workers around you.

3. Identify ways in which your youth work competences can help to shape and influence a youth project/centre or programme.

Activity List:

1.Create your youth work CV. Clearly identifying your skills, knowledge and experience and how you utilise these in your practice.

2.Reflect on how your experience and influence can bring about positive change in the practice of others you work with.

3. Monitor of 3 months how you have influenced positive change, renewel and synergy in your youth centre/project or programme.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Renewer
Duration: 3h
Local
Meet Up
ages: 16 >

Desierd outcomes:
1.Recognise and realise your leadership talents and qualities.

2. Understand the impact and the legacy your role can have on others.

3. Understand your own journey and how you can share this to inspire others.

Activity List:
1.Reflect and document your leadership talents and qualities and identify how you can use these to inspire others.

2. Write a declaration (or statement of intent) as to why you want be a positive influence on others and what outcomes are you looking for.

3. What is the story that you can share with others. Share your pathway and be clear about the messages.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Renewer
Duration: 3h
Digital
Level up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1. Awareness and value of taking time out and understanding how to relax.

2. Ability to identify learning interests and passions and opportunities to realise them.

3. Understand what motivates your inner spirit.

Activity List:
1. When was the last time you felt relaxed and had time to stretch your mind and your body? identify two spots in your diary where you can find 30 minutes for yourself. Then use the time to find a window with a nice view or a comfy chair to sit back in, turn your phone off, maybe close your eyes and listen to your breathing or gaze out of the window. But do it for 30 minutes and then the following day reflect on the experience and record your thoughts. How can this time help you with maintaining all the learning from the other badges?

2. When was the last time you invested in you? Attended a training you were interested in. Create a quick wordstorm of the things you would really like to learn and then circle the three most interesting ones for you and then look for possibilities for you to attend such a learning experience. Let others know what happens.

3. Find three quotes that inspire you (from a book, online or from the wall of the coffee shop) and explain and describe how and why they talk to you and feed your thoughts.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Balancer
Duration: 3h
Digital
Level up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1. Understand the importance and benefits of being physically active. Physical challenge

2. Awareness and understanding of the importance of maintaining positive social friendships and relationships.

3. Understands the value of doing and giving to and for others.

Activity List:
1.In one week identify five (one per day over 7 days) new physical challenges for yourself (take the stairs, walk to college, dance before breakfast, cycle to work, chop firewood etc) and record how you feel after each and after the week you have achieved them.

2. Identify two people who you consider to be extremely close to and good friends that you have not been in touch with for the last two months. Make contact with them (drop them an email, message them or call them) and arrange a meet, a drink,a skype call, a walk or a lunch together). Record your feelings after meeting them how it has made you feel.

3. When was the last time you made a donation to a good cause? What was the cause and why did you give? How much time in a week do you give to supporting and helping others without asking for or expecting reward? Share and document your experiences.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Combiner
Duration: 3h
Local
Meet up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1. Understand the needs and positions of others and awareness of the differences.

2. Ability to identify the common ground, explore solutions and articulate a way forward.

3. Ability to overcome the differences and explore opportunities and solutions without judgement.

Activity list:
1. Share a story about a relationship you have with someone that has a difference of opinion on a subject/issue. How are your positions different and what would need to happen for the two of you to collaborate? Are you still able to accept the differences and accept the person for who they are?

2. Describe a problem solving situation when you have been able to work with others effectively to share and identify solutions.

3. Seek out someone who has an opposing view than you to the purpose of youth work, discuss, debate, negotiate and then arrive to a common understanding as to the purpose of youth work that you can both agree with. Document the process and outcome.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Synergizer
Duration: 3h
Local
Meet up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1. An awareness and basic understanding of how synergy can benefit us and others.

2. Identify how synergy is applied and the benefits it brings to youth work practice.

Activity List:
1. An awareness and basic understanding of how synergy can benefit us and others.

2. Identify how synergy is applied and the benefits it brings to youth work practice.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Clarifier
Duration: 3h
Local
Meet up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1.Explore ways in which we can listen to others better.

2.Understand and apply a theory for better listening to others.

3. Explore and understand the benefits of silence in communication.

Activity List:
1a. Watch on www.Ted.com the talk of Julian Treasure, 5 ways to listen better. Make notes and take and share a picture of your notes.

1b. Write down what RASA stands for and how it can help you?

2. Practice and test using RASA in conversations and share what you discovered.

3. Stop what you are doing right now. find a watch/stopwatch and say and do nothing for 3 minutes but listen. What can you hear? What does 3 minutes silence feel like?

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Equalizer
Duration: 3h
Local
Meet up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1. Explore and identify ways in which you can be fair and equal in your youth work practice.

2. Understand ‘fair trade practices’ and identify ways in which they can be applied in youth work.

3. Understand the importance of equal opportunities in youth work.

Activity list:
1. Music Youth Club Puzzle - this is an age old problem area of conflict for youth clubs for years. So can you solve it? You have a large and busy youth club. 15% of the members have no major interest in music. 25% of your members are into indi, rock and punk. 35% like Hip Hop, RnB and Rap. 15% listen only to dance and club music. The remaining 10% are happy with pop and anything really that is in the chart. How do you come to fair and equal decision as to the use and playlist on the soundsystem of the Youth Club?

2. Research and understand ‘fair trade practices’ and explore how it could be applied in youth work. Share your findings.

3. Does your youth project have an equal opportunities policy? Share what says and what its purpose is? If you don’t have one, have a go at creating one.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Cooperator
Duration: 3h
Local
Meet up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1.Understand and identify your own integrity. Confirming your true feelings, values, judgements and commitments.

2.Identify your own maturity and how you express your ideas and feelings with courage and consideration for the ideas of others.

3.Research, explore and clarify the abundance mentality: belief that there is plenty for everyone even when you disagree.

Activity list:
1a. Visit the following link: http://1z1kv548exau10mbm12h6vdz.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Big-List-of-Core-Value-Words.pdf identify 10 values that best describe YOU from the BIG list of VALUE words.

1b. Identify 10 different values from the list that you would look for in others you would want to cooperate with.

1c. Share why and how are these values important to you?

2. Present a conversation where you have had opposing views to someone but you have expressed your ideas and views with consideration for others.

3. Express your understanding of the phrase ‘agree to disagree’ and how this can be a platform for cooperation.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Prioritiser
Duration: 3h
Digital
level up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1. Can identify the important things in your life.

2. Show the ability to prioritise the important things in your life and asses which are urgent or not.

3. Understand why reflecting on these things can help you prioritise and do more of the things that need to be done and important to you.

4. Understand the importance and benefits of saying NO.

5. Ability to rationally apply yes and no when prioritising what is important or not.

Activity List:
1a.Reflect and identify 10 things that you DO that are important to you in your life. Then write them individually on pieces of paper and create a pyramid, with the most important on the top and the four least important along the bottom.

1b. what are the interruptions and time wasting things that get in the way of you DOING the things that you want to DO.

2a. Make a list of everything you have to do this week. Then at the side not if these things are important or not important to you.

2b. Now with the same list put them in numerical order of urgency. 1 being most urgent and the last one being not urgent at all.

3. What have you learnt from the activities in 1 and 2? !! Want to know more: research Covey’s Time Management Matrix

4. When was the last time you said NO to someone or something. Why can saying NO be liberating?

5. Share what things you will be saying YES to this week and what things you will be saying NO to this week.

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Intrest category: Society
Badge to earn: EYL Embarker
Duration: 3h
Digital
Meet up
ages: 16 >

Desired Outcomes:
1. Understand purpose and direction in your personal life and explore what needs to change to achieve it.

2. Understand and explore the importance of self-leadership.

3. Identify areas that you are strong when it comes to managing others but not able to apply this to yourself.

*also include time and also asking for support, what support and how you are supported

Activity List:
1.Answer and share your responses to the following three questions: What do you want to achieve in life? Why is this important to you? Name one thing you can DO (which you are not doing now) that would help you move towards this?

2. ‘Before one can lead others, they must first learn to lead themselves’: discuss with friends and share your findings and conclusions.

3a. Research the meaning of self management and document areas you are good at when managing others but not when it comes to yourself.

3b. Identify and present what you could do to improve on these areas of self management.

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Intrest category: Society
Badge to earn: EYL development Planner
Duration: 6h
Local
meet up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1.Identify past achievements and the skills you have gained through these

2.Awareness of your strengths and interests and ways in which you can build on these

3. Ability to identify gaps and experience in your knowledge and skills

4. Ability to identify and realise  learning opportunities through trainings and other experiences

5.Awareness of placement opportunities that could help you to reach the development you require

Activity List:
1. Create and share a learning path based upon your youth work experiences. Be creative this can be river if you wish instead of a path.

2. Create and share a SWOT that identifies your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

3.Identify and share gaps in your experience, knowledge and skills. List 3-5 for each.

4.Identify ways in which you can build on your strengths, act on your opportunities, overcome your weaknesses and turn your threats into positive possibilities.

5. Identify a placement or learning opportunity with young people and explore how this could help you with 4. above?

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Visionary
Duration: 3h
digital
Level up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1. Identify personal areas in life you wish to improve and identify the outcomes and changes you are looking for.

2. Understand the importance of positive self talk to achieve.

Activity list:
1. Download, complete and share your vision board (use the following link)

2. Using this vision board, write down a personal statement of intent. This personal statement gives you guidance in your life because you have the end in mind.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL influencer
Duration: 2h
digital
Level up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1.Understand what the circle of influence and circle of engagement is.

2. Able to recognise a mistake I made, reflect on it and learn from it.

3. Able to make a promise to myself and/or others and keep it.

Activity list:
1.a. Download and complete the circle of influence activity sheet (download link).

1.b. Identify and share the most positively influential person or event in your life.

2.Write down a situation which you know you are facing soon and realise that in the past you had a reactive response. Look at this situation and write down how you can respond to this in a proactive way or role.

3. Identify a goal you will make and five key steps you will take to reach this goal.

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Badge to earn: EYL Initiator
Duration: 2h
local
meet up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1. Understand what proactive thinking and behaviour is.

2. Identify when you have taken the initiative and the outcomes and impact of this.

3. Discussed why dreams are important and how acting and planning can help you to realise them.

4. Understand the importance of role models and being a good example.

Activity list:
1. Share a definition of proactive thinking and proactive behaviour.

2. Share one situation where YOU want to take initiative. Write down what you want to achieve and when.

3. Describe how someone else sees dreams and how they achieved them.

4. Listen and document someone's role model story, when they had or were a positive role model to someone else.

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL Principle connoiseur
Duration: 2/3 h
Digital
Level Up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes:
1. Knowing a definition of a principle

2. Identify three of the principles that are  important in your life

3. Identify three of the principles that are  important in your youth work

4. Present a way how you can use this knowledge when you work with young people.

Activity list:
1.Research and share a definition of principles

2. Share three principles that are important in your life and guide your behaviour (e.g. i first trust everyone to do the right thing).

3. Share three principles that are important in your youth leadership.

4. Describe a way/method of explaining the concept of principles to a group of young people. (Think about a non-formal activity where you explore and explain what principles are with young people.)

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Intrest category: LIFE
Badge to earn: EYL (effective youth Leadership) Paradigm Thinker
Duration: 4h
Local
meet up
ages: 16 >

Desired outcomes;
1. Understand how situations  can be seen and experienced differently.

2. Be aware of your own assumptions.

3. Identify situations when seeing things from a different perspective can help in youth leadership.

Activity list:
1a. Research and share a definition of a paradigm

1b. Share a short story of one situation being seen and experienced differently by two or more individuals.

2. Explain two situations: one when you have the right assumption about a situation and one when you have made the wrong assumption about a situation. What can you learn from these.

3. Share a situation when you have seen things from a different perspective in a youth leadership situation, how did this help inform your response?