Precarity & Promise: Youth Work as the Process of Futuring

Virtual Keynote

Youth work and the nonprofit sector are filled with structural challenges that shape youth workers’ personal and professional lives. Despite these challenges, youth workers cultivate experiences and opportunities for young people to thrive. Considering the complexity and precarity of the youth work landscape, including the pressure the field is under to address societal and educational problems, and the quick decisions youth workers are forced to make daily – under what conditions does the process of conscious futuring and dreaming occur? This virtual keynote radically reclaims the space needed to contemplate the viability and sustainability of youth work as a process of futuring.