Offering tailored training for organisations and individuals wanting to improve relationships, rapport and engagement levels with young people, particularly those living in isolated areas.

The Free2b Approach training shares how to engage with young people based on who they actually are rather than what adults want them to be. The training is tailored to attendees’ identified needs and concerns in the youth and community engagement space and is run in a way that values story sharing and collective input as the basis for developing realistic and needs based action plans. It offers an interactive experience that teaches adults and organisations in the youth and community sector how to effectively engage with young people and their communities in a way that is sincere, authentic and sensitive to the realities that exist on the ground. It is centred around creating and cherishing rapport, maintaining safety amongst freedom and educating the broader community about the ‘qualities’ rather than the ‘deficiencies’ of youth in general. Many attitudinal and generational barriers are broken down during ‘The Free2b Approach’ training so that long term, authentic engagement can be sustained within communities and young people in general.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Be responsive to ‘what happens’.

  • Discover the ‘open space’ mind set.

  • See why ‘traction’ is a safety essential

  • Develop adaptable communication skills

"The Free2b Approach made it a lot easier to create real relationships with the girls, rather than forced relationships aimed to complete tasks so that adult boxes can be ticked. The  only box that I realised was being ticked with my girls was when they rocked up to the next session with excitement and motivation in their eyes..... "

Kylie, group facilitator.