How do we get started? Are there workshops? Can our teachers get trained? Can citizens acquire skills to coach youth?

Young changemakers benefit from 4 inspirational types of humans.

1) Role models. That is young and adult hero*ines, via media and in person.

2) Teachers that provide content and activities that inspire “to do stuff”. Such teachers exist everywhere. What they need is role model stories and outer school partners (e.g. sports clubs, music schools), in our case  project partners, coaches and LearnSpace hosts. And they need strong partners in-house, which is the emerging the Changemaker Student Club.

3) Practical Coaches that teach know-how on things that make life and the world better, “stuff that makes life more awesome”, such as vegan chefs, bee-keepers, permaculture farmers, nature guides. These people exist in every region and are precious partners for teachers – to invite to school, and to pay viits to. In the best case, these Practical Coaches are accessible for young people to connect with outside school hours. Some will even have Learnspaces or ParticipationSpaces. Many of them would like to work with youth and schools, but lack connectivity. We map them, and we work with them to grow awareness of their value for youth, for teachers, and how to improve their offers, for example with holiday offers and badges of value for CVs.

4) Youth Leadership Coaches that help youth start and evolve projects, and are accessible on demand. This is the form of coaches that the young generation urgently needs more of. Ordinary citizens – also teachers – can play this role and acquire the necessary skills. 

We seek to nurture awareness of such coaches, to facilitate access to them, globally online and in your regional community, and to provide training for adults to acquire the mindset, know-how and relations to function as Role Model, Teacher, Practical Coach and Youth Leadership aligned with their lifestyle, casually, non-formally or formally.