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Youth identity
- 1. Welcome to
- 2. 2b Youth Identity In this sessionā¦ ā¢ We might touch on issues where we as individuals or our Churches disagree ā¢ We might touch on identity issues which either weāve struggled with, or someone close to us has struggled with. Thereforeā¦ ā¢ Please feel that you can share something controversial, but please think carefully how you word it before you say it ā¢ If unsure about your wording, please make a note to yourself as a potential assignment topic where you can think through it in more detail, and only Mike and I will read it. ā¢ Finally, if you feel uncomfortable at any point, please do feel free to dip out of the sessionā¦but do make sure you return or send Mike or I a message so we know youāre okay.
- 3. Identity v Role Confusion ā¢Identity - how a person sees themselves in relation to their world. Sense of self or individuality in the context of life and what lies ahead ā¢Role Confusion is the negative perspective - an absence of identity - meaning that the person cannot see clearly or at all who they are and how they can relate positively with their environment. ā¢Young people struggle to belong and to be accepted and affirmed, and yet also to become individuals. In itself this is a big dilemma, aside from all the other distractions and confusions experienced at this life stage. Where did we get our identify when we were teenagers? 2b Youth Identity
- 4. Adolescence yearsā¦ From Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies to Help Young People Discover and Love Your Church by Kara Powell. Chapter 3 in Portal. Published in 2016 2b Youth Identity
- 5. A slow downā¦ 2b Youth Identity Chapters 5 & 7 Root argues: ā¢ Your identity (how you define yourself) and sense of the good (what is worth living for) are linked. ā¢ Pursuit of identity is much more individualised: taken on your own, or a friend, in your own bedroom rather than out with a group in your neighbourhood Root explores the relationship between Identity formation and other areas of young peopleās lives, and the impact on Youth Ministry, in chapters 5 & 7
- 6. Impact on Youth Ministry? ā¢ Parents taking much more of a active involvement in helping their children find their thing through which they can form their identity. ā¢ āā¦the thing gives the young person a particular marked trial to follow ā a way of life ā as she quests for her unique identity and ways to express it.ā (p54) ā¢ Few parents see āYouth Ministryā as that thing ā¢ āFriendship parenting is present because the identity journey is now an anxious internal quest with vast options. Friendship has direct impact on the identity journey without ever threatening to be coercive, which in the end could corrupt the pursuit of happiness.ā (p59) Andrew Root, The End of Youth Ministry? 2b Youth Identity
- 7. What are the 'identity issues' that our young people are facing today? How should and can we respond to those issues? 2b Youth Identity Discussion
- 8. Questions you may like to discussā¦ If it was your son or daughter within the Case Study, what support would you want them to have within the local community? How would respond if a young person is forming an identity you don't agree with theologically? Is your love for the young person bigger than your love for your theology? 2b Youth Identity Case Studies
- 9. Covid-19 2b Youth Identity What do we think will be the impact of Covid- 19 on Young Peopleās identity formation?
- 10. Black Lives Matters 2b Youth Identity How good are we at talking about race, both as individuals and as a Church? Do our Churches, and we as individuals, engage in conversations with those from a BAME background within our local Communities? Do we talk about racism and the injustices faced by others within our Churches and wider community? What step(s) can we take both today and in the coming days, weeks and months in response?
- 11. Work 2b Youth Identity Is the changing High Street, and the closures of major retailers (e.g. BHS, Toys āRā Us etc), todayās version of Pit Closures and the declining Steel Industry?
- 12. Brexit Brexit ā what impact will it have on young people's identity? Is there a cultural divide between remainers and leavers? Between North and South? Rise of Nationalism? 2b Youth Identity
- 16. Sexuality 2b Youth Identity https://www.methodist.org.uk/about-us/the-methodist- church/marriage-and-relationships-2019/the-2019-marriage- and-relationships-report/ Includes proposals and recommendations around: ā¢ Cohabitation ā¢ Singleness ā¢ Ending relationships well (e.g. blessing services for divorcing couples) ā¢ Extending definition of Marriage to ābetween two personsā
- 17. Sexuality 2b Youth Identity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5Aolk0o30 ā BBC North West Inside Out https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/lizzie-lowe- death-church-changes-15185483 Do we create space within our Churches, denominations and youth groups for safe conversations to take place where we can explore different theological view points?
- 18. Love is an Orientation by Andrew Marin Bible Gender Sexuality by James Brownson Approaching Gender Dysphoria by Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky Further resources and links... 2b Youth Identity
Editor's Notes
- Over the course of the next 45-60 minutes, we might touch on issues where we as individuals disagree with each other; or our Churches have a different theological stance to ours and other peopleās Churches; or we might touch on identity issues which either weāve struggled with, or someone close to us has struggled with. Weāre very good as humans, as Christians and as the Church to brush difficult conversations under the carpet, and we want this to be a safe place where we can potentially discuss some of those difficult issues; yet we also want to do so in a loving, respectful way. If weāre aware we might be saying something contreversiol, we want you to feel comfortable to be able to say it, but please think through carefully about how you might say it. And if you canāt find a suitable way to say it, it might be wise to keep that thought for your assignment, where you can give it some more thought, and where only Mike or I will read it. Finally, if anyone at any point feels uncomfortable and feels that you could do with some space, please do feel free to take yourself out of the room for as long as you need.
- A personās identity will be unique to themselves because each person lives in a different context.
- Argument that the Adolescence years are finishing later. People getting married later (me ā 30 compared to my parents at 24); having children later (me ā 33; parents 27); moving into their own homes later; people staying in education longer; starting first job later
- Newspapers / magazines dotted around to spark ideas
- Work identity Changing work patterns, especially in communities where a large employee suddenly disappears. e.g. Parson Cross: Identity was rooted in the steel industry ā the work, sense of community, purpose etc. Now all gone / been lost. Similar happening today in places where large employees almost overnight disappear ā car companies, Toys R Us, BHS, House of Frazer...Ā
- A key part of what we do as youth workers, therefore, argues Young, is helping our young people find out, develop and form their own identity, whatever that might be for them. Do we prepare our young people for life in the āreal worldā outside of the Church / Christian bubble? Photocopy chapter 2 of āFaith Forwardā for people to take home. Danger often is that our young people become fantastic Christians when theyāre with us ā read the Bible ā pray ā etc etc ā but as soon as they go and see the real world, go to University, go and see poverty close up, and their faith can take a beating. Read bottom of p41-top of p43 if time of Faith Forward book.
- We often think that itās just the Church / parts of the Church which is portrayed as having issues with the LGBTQi communityā¦and yet itās potentially much bigger than thatā¦and yet we must acknowledge that the church does face challenges around this area.
- We often think that itās just the Church / parts of the Church which is portrayed as having issues with the LGBTQi communityā¦and yet itās potentially much bigger than thatā¦and yet we must acknowledge that the church does face challenges around this area.
- Do we create space within our Churches, denominations and youth groups for safe conversations to take place where we can explore different theological view points?
- Do we create space within our Churches, denominations and youth groups for safe conversations to take place where we can explore different theological view points?
- Do we create space within our Churches, denominations and youth groups for safe conversations to take place where we can explore different theological view points?