Exploring Unconventional Youth Leadership

This is a breakout activity for the Common Ground Symposium 2022 – please only book this activity if you have already booked a ticket for the Symposium.

When booking breakout activities, please ensure you have booked two different activities for the two different time slots – one for 11.10 and one for 12.20.

Activity

What do we mean when talking about youth leadership? What can youth power look like? Join Jack Wilkin and Lil Woods as they explore and share a snippet of alternative ways of youth leadership and how to give young people meaningful power. Using their experiences of Common Ground and beyond, they’ll work with participants to discover the benefits and challenges of creating unconventional youth leadership.

Facilitators: Jack Wilkin and Lil Woods

Jack Wilkin is an artist, facilitator and youth worker. Based in Peterborough, Jack explores performance, youth work, and facilitation. Their performance practice is based in solo shows exploring issues both within and facing the LGBTQIA+ community. They currently work at arts organisation Metal and youth charity The Kite Trust, as well as being a community artist with Common Ground.

Lil Woods is an artist and facilitator whose work spans theatre, performance, education and activism. She’s currently working with children and young people in inner-city and rural areas. Lil is a workshop leader at Tender, a community artist at Common Ground, and an education consultant at Repowering London. Lil recently co-founded STOP, London’s first School of Theatre of the OPpressed, and is currently producing three forum theatre plays commissioned by UCL.