Pete’s meaningful blog & welcome

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Gay and lesbian welcome?!?

This issue never goes away and it really can’t get enough airplay, general support and attention. Gay and lesbian young people being harrassed. This particular article has come via Richard Lenn again. Ta Richard. Keep em coming. ‘Bullying’s Cost: Teens facing harassment can’t wait till they grow up’ In Sydney, things are better than they

Digital generation

So much talk about the digital age and what it means for children/young people…and we don’t really yet know the impact do we? Gotta wait a few years to find out. But here again is something to look at, and again thanks to to Richard Lenn for this link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16475278 I would like to hear

2012…here we go…possibly again

Is the new year for you…good? Bad? Something else? Is the new year? Looking better than/same as/worse than…last year? Terrible things continue to happen but so, quite amazingly at times, and against – it would seem – all odds…hang on…lost the sentence here…trying to say: despite the crap, good things do happen. And I have

Easy to be cynical this time of year. There is plenty of stuff about to invite that in us. And yet I’m still looking forward to it. People I care about, siting about and mucking about…kids…all that stuff…and coz its OZ there is a chance of beach…and of course, there is always these guys. Feliz

Australian & New Zealand Adolescent Health Conference

I was recently at the 8th Australian and New Zealand Adolescent Health Conference, and my task there was to work with the youth delegates and other young people who attended, to assist them in putting together the closing address for the conference. What a great gig! And they were tremendous…I said hello and goodbye in

‘Indigenous hip-hop Project’ doing it for young people

This group is totally onto it for a number of reasons…they are great dancers. Check out the moves particuraly about two thirds the way through this vid. I went to a workshop these guys did, and: It was interactive. I got to do hip-hop and generally have a good time. Best sort of workshop really.

The words we use

In a lot of the training I do about working with young I spend time on communication…the language we use when we speak; the words we choose, the intention behind those words. And it is all really obvious stuff: decide what it is that you are trying to do, choose words that will get that

Young people doing good stuff

I haven’t been in touch with Mal Fruen and others for a while, and so it’s great to see this

Boys

Here be a pic from the Sydney Morning Herald 23/24 July 2011. Something simply delightful, and probably quite young male, about what these boys are doing in response to the big seas off Sydney at the moment

Lessons for life

There is something quite spectacular here…and I am uncertain how much to add to what you might see…but ya know what…just gonna lay down a cupla things I heard this fella say coz I know some of you have not got access to the internet. His name is Dan Phillips and he makes creative, amazing