Unit 6

Connecting with Young Men

Aim of Workshop

To assist a broad range of practitioners to effectively engage with young men on mental health and wellbeing issues.

Objectives

  • Demonstrate why we need to work with young men as a specific group.
  • Help participants to reflect on their own value base, experience, attitudes towards, and expectations of young men.
  • Explore the world of young men, the issues that they face, and the opportunities that exist to engage with them.
  • Model and offer practical suggestions on what works.
  • Increase the confidence of participants in relation to working with young men, and help them to believe that ‘it can be done’.

One Day Workshop Programme Outline

TIME SESSION FOCUS
9:00am

Arrival / settling-in
  • Registration
  • Tea / coffee
  • Pre-training evaluation (if applicable)
9:15am

Welcome, scene setting, and creating a safe space
  • Welcome and thanks for coming
  • Housekeeping announcements
  • Background to ‘Connecting with Young Men’
  • Model of working together
  • Group contract / ground rules
9:40am

Why focus on young men?
  • Do we need to specifically focus on the needs of young men?
  • Key issues facing young men
10:00am

Young men: a positive force rather than a problem to be solved
  • Young men as people of worth rather than a problem to be solved
  • Strengths-based and salutogenic approaches
  • Images of young men
  • The ‘light’ and the ‘dark’ in young men’s lives
  • Empathy, and starting where young men are at
11:00am

Comfort Break
11:25am

Bags and baggage
  • Personal strengths and weaknesses in relation to working with young men
12:15pm

How are you smart?

 

OR

 

The journey into manhood
  • Multiple intelligences
  • Learning styles

 

  • Key moments / events / occasions that mark a significant transition between childhood and manhood
1:15pm

Lunch
2:00pm

Connecting with young men
  • Challenges and barriers to help seeking
  • Coping strategies
  • Opportunities for support
3:00pm

Comfort break
3:10pm

Top tips for engaging young men
  • Key features of a ‘young man friendly service’
  • Do’s and don’ts when working with young men
4:05pm

Bringing it all together
  • Recap on the day
  • Signposting to further resources
  • Feedback / evaluation
  • Closing round
4:30pm

End

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