It's back to term and I'm excited because I'm starting a new freelance project involving teenagers and toddlers. As well as aiming to reduce the teenage pregnancy rate, the 20-week project supports the development of young people's emotional intelligence.
Tomorrow we'll all meet for the first time. The teenagers, toddlers and group facilitators. Over 20 weeks we'll ride the highs and lows of getting to know each other and this is the exciting part because we're co-creating our relationship, like making magic out of thin air.
So how I am matters ... and that's important because it means I can model that it's OK to feel excited, apprehensive, scared, unsure - or whatever is going on for me - and in turn I can help model for the young people talking about feelings, uncertainties and lots more besides.
I have a huge sense of possibility, potential and hope within the air and I know this will help hold me through the bad times - maybe when I feel deskilled or have had tough days - so that we'll be able to come to the end together somehow changed and better for knowing one another.
So how you are matters, as well, and I'm wondering what relationships you'll co-create with the young people you meet this term, and what you'll hold in place for them so that they can fulfil more of their potential.
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