Oh so quiet!

This has been a very silent space for the last little while. Unfortunately the nature of trying to get these kind of activities sorted with a partner who is also super busy is rather tricky! But we have exciting news - we have organised all our workshop content and are about to do a call-out for recruiting!

Oh heck, may as well do the call out here too!

We are looking for 6 young people (aged between 18-19) based in brisbane. The overview of this program is to bring young people together for 10 weeks, one night a week for about 2 hours to talk about about a specific issue. This first workshop series will be around mental health. The outcome of these workshops will be that young people will have a chance to talk to like-minded others about their views on mental health and what they are passionate about in this area. From here, we will help develop this idea into an "action" which they will have completed within the 10 weeks. Throughout the process, we will also be teaching skills in photography and digital storytelling, with a view to creating a digital story of themselves, the action they took and what mental health means to them. The last workshop will be an exhibit where the young people can invite their family and friends along to show them the photographs they have taken and to show their digital story. We would also like to invite back members of this workshop to help facilitate the next - though this is an additional commitment and we do not expect that everyone will be able to take part in this part of it.

YFocus is about providing young people with a space to be passionate, take action and share their story. We - as the organisers - are as much participants of the workshops as anyone else and want to make sure the process is driven by the group!

As we said, we're looking for 6 people aged 18-19. We would really appreciate if you could forward this onto any contacts you might have and for anyone interested to contact us at y.focus1@gmail.com so we can chat further and provide more details!

So there's our plug - we're excited and ready to get our 6 peeps on board and then start the workshop! So now we just sit back and trust that technology is more powerful than me ringing people on the phone!

Matt