Youth Work

In 2010 during my senior year of high school, I read Grace Llewellyn’s ‘Teenage Liberation Handbook’. It’s an amazing book which highlights how living and learning or invariably interconnected, that the conditions of your living are thus connected to the quality of your learning, and that the world is abundant with opportunities to learn. TLH empowered me to explore that question; How can I integrate my living and learning? How can I surround myself with learning in my everyday life? How can I squeeze all the juice out fruit of life?

It sounds deep, but it kind of isn’t. In practice, the skills I use to integrate my living and learning are in the end just self-knowledge, kindness, and tinkering. It sounds simple, but it kind of isn’t. But this is the process! Integration of the profound with the minute, the abstract with the concrete.

I’m not a professional in the sense that I will never have a document to confirm that I have extensive and well-structured study on the topic of education. You could say I’m an enthusiast. I am passionate about how people learn, what gets in the way of genuine learning, how to communicate so that learning can occur, and how to equip people with the skills to make their learning integrated with life. I could probably put together a paper of people who can confirm I am fun.

Not Back To School Camp: 2013-present
Private Youth Mentoring: 2014-present
Substitute Teaching: 2018-present