something about the approach
26 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
It is written in In Petto’s documents that “their goal is to capture signals sent by young persons that point to an amount of ‘unwellbeing’ and to transform this into actions that increase the wellbeing of all young persons”. I was wondering how they do it? What is specific and different in the way In Petto is dealing with this topic?
As I was explained, first step is always sensing the needs and problems of young people. The way they do it is through research but with high level of participation of young people. Positive approach is something that is always present, for instance, research on life conditions and problems of young people was called “Hip Hip Happy” and is rather called research about happiness of young people. When results of research were promoted under the label of happiness, I am very sure more young people were interested in hearing them. After research, there is always some kind of publication following, to make results visible. Sometimes it’s a magazine and othertimes someting else more appealing to young people, like a short movie or similar. And the final step is to make an outcome, a product with an educational goal, so that wellbeing of young people could be improved based on the research results. Most of the outcomes are social games or similar educational but fun based products. Fun is very important here . If you want to work with young people, better know how to entertain them. Off course, we would all say that fun is important in our work and we all know how to attract and entertain young people, but who here has never saw a perfectly equiped youth center of youth house, without any sigh of young people there? Games, movies etc that In Petto is creating for young people’s wellbeing are always fun, playfull and joyfull. This is a must. And, as they say, if young people feel a bit better, as a result, society will profit from it as well.
