For youth workers (paid or volunteer), there can be nothing more frightening than the belief that something terrible might happen to a student that you have invested so much time and energy in. As a substance abuse counselor, I struggle with the reality that one day someone could overdose and die regardless of how much I try [...]
Archive for the ‘Spirituality’ Category
Coping With Burnout
Posted: July 1, 2010 in Mental Health, Misc., Spirituality, Teens, Uncategorized, Youth MinistryTags: Abba, Burn-Out, burnout, God, Health, Jesus, Religion and Spirituality, Suicide, Youth Ministry, Youth worker
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Sometimes It Blows Up In Your Face
Posted: June 7, 2010 in Misc., News, Spirituality, Teens, Youth MinistryTags: Youth Ministry, Youth Specialties
You pour your life into students, let someone else pour some life into you. At the National Youth Workers Convention they create an environment where times of worship, seminar speakers, and communicators pour some life back into you. Learn more at http://nywc.com/
Compassion on the Decline Among College Students
Posted: June 1, 2010 in Spirituality, Technology, Teens, UncategorizedTags: College, Compassion, Homeless, Incarcerated, LGBTQ, Substance Abuse, Teens
The results of research done at the University of Michigan tells us that compassion among college students is declining. Researchers analyzed data on empathy collected from almost 14,000 college students over the last 30 years. “We found the biggest drop in empathy after the year 2000,” said Sara Konrath, a researcher at the U-M Institute for Social [...]
We have the awesome privilege of spending next week with urban youth workers from all over the country. This is a unique and amazing tribe of people. If you work with urban youth I’d like to invite you to join us for a week of training, rest, and fun. We’re leading two workshops at the conference [...]
What are the negative consequences of not accepting personal powerlessness? If we do not help our youth accept powerlessness over the uncontrollables and unchangeables in their life, then they could: Begin to frustrate themselves in their attempts to gain control and to fix the non-fixable. Become extremely rigid and dogmatic in their handling of life’s problems believing that [...]
