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YEP has a vision to transform the landscape of youth engagement. How do we do that? www.youthengagementproject.com

We empower educators, organisations and speakers to unleash their influence, engage audiences and drive meaningful change. Youth Engagement Project is a not-for-profit organisation that provides training and support for those who work with young people, including teachers, schools, outdoor educators, youth engagement officers, youth organisations, councils, and government departments. We are on a mission to transform the landscape of youth engagement, as our young people deserve to have those who support them at their best. Our vision is a youth landscape where young people are inspired to take ownership of their lives, are confident in who they are, and face a flourishing future.

15/10/2026

We asked. They told us 💌

Here’s a few shares from our workshop Monday.

Hearing these words following a workshop never gets old - we’re so grateful to each and every attendee 🔥

We’re doing it all over again in Sydney in 10 days!

Link in bio x

13/10/2026

What happens when 50 passionate youth professionals spend a day together?

Lots of laughter.
Beautiful questions.
Real stories.
And a whole lot of genuine exploration ❤️

Thank you, Melbourne. You led with curiosity, honesty and so much heart.

We’re still buzzing 🐝

Sydney - you’re next - we’ll see you on Monday 26th October.

Still a few tickets left, link in bio.

22/09/2026

We’ve just written a new resource, and we think it might be one of the best ever 🚀

70 years of research. 2.64 million students. One finding that changes how we should be showing up for young people.

We took the research and turned it into something you can actually use: The Relationship Effect - 5 research-backed strategies that underpin connection (and how to apply them)

Comment “RELATIONSHIP” and we’ll organise to send it over 🧡

Inside the resource:
🔹 How to build a secure base
🔹 Independence vs. dependence - and why it matters
🔹 What actually breaks trust (it’s not what you’d think)
🔹 How to read behaviour as a signal, not a problem
🔹 Why connection matters more as they get older

Every strategy comes with practical, in-the-room examples and a reflection question to take with you.

This work is too important to gate-keep 💌

21/09/2026

What a throwback 📸

When we founded YEP, one of the things most important to us was designing learning experiences that actually land - not just focusing on theoretical understanding, but how to tangibly apply it.

That’s why we built experiential games (like this one) and frameworks from day one - learning through doing sticks in a way that learning through listening never quite does.

Experience creates the reflection, and reflection is what makes it actually stick.

Obviously, Skye’s dog Pickles has been essential for the design journey 🐕

17/09/2026

This concept has SUCH an impact on wellbeing and learning we’re considering hosting a free webinar to unpack the research and share practical tips ❤️

Comment ‘yes’ if you’re keen ⬇️

If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of ‘calm down’ when you’re feeling dysregulated, you know how well it does not work.

You calm them down by being calm yourself and ensuring they feel heard and held.

This is co-regulation. Young people often need to borrow our emotions to support gathering their own. Our steady voice, our slow breathing, our settled body language.

Calm is contagious. So is chaos.

Choose your contagion wisely 🙏

10/09/2026

Rare sighting: both of us, in the same office, at the same time 📸

A day of meetings, consulting and just enjoying it 💌

09/09/2026

People come to our workshops for the content. That part, we’re pretty proud of (if we do say so ourselves) 🙈

But the part they don’t expect? And the part we utterly adore - the room itself.

Every workshop brings together people from completely different organisations across the youth sector - all in one room, all genuinely invested in the same thing. What starts as a workshop often turns into new connections, shared ideas, and relationships that outlast the day itself.

It’s less “networking event,” and more a room full of people who get it - exploring topics that truly make a difference across our youth landscape.

We have a tickets left in each city for our upcoming workshops in Sydney and Melbourne - and incredible line ups of attendees 🚀

If you’d love in on both the content and the room, links are in bio 💌

08/09/2026

One third of teaching time in Australia is lost to student behaviour. That’s not a headline exaggeration - it’s what a national report of nearly 400 teachers just found.

A lot of the conversation since has focused on discussing consequences, discipline, and classroom management training. This might be useful - but it’s not what the literature is guiding us toward.

Underneath the data, the research points us in another direction. Disruptive behaviour is strongly linked to a lack of trust between students and teachers. And telling a room to calm down doesn’t work when the adult in front of them is overwhelmed and dysregulated too.

This isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a connection problem, at scale.

Swipe through 5 key insights from the report - and what the research says we’re missing.

We’d LOVE to hear your thoughts on this one 💭

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