Welcome to the youth section of the livesimply website! If you're a youth leader, school chaplain, or anyone who works with young people, this is the place to find livesimply resources, news and interviews - as well as a chance to see the latest enewsletter for youth leaders.
You can get in touch, here. You can download a crib sheet about livesimply here!
Top tips for Community Challenges In collaboration with St Monica's parish, Palmers Green, London, we've come up with a set of great Top Tips to kick start your groups' Community Challenge. You can see them here.
There's also an introductory session outline available to download below which was developed as a Confimation session. Good luck!
Reading the Signs of the Times Developed for the residential volunteers' conference in 2008, this short session gives a grounding in seeing the world through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching. Good for anyone who works with young people and wants to have a conceptual toolkit for understanding issues in contemporary society. Download both files needed below.
Pax Christi/YCW Conflict and violence Pax Christi's annual competition for young people has closed! But the resources for exploring Conflict and Violence, how they affect young people, and what young people can do to make a difference are still brilliant. Download everything you need below.
National Youth Sunday may be over, but the resources go on forever!
National Youth Sunday was on 23 November 2008 under the title "Reclaim the Future". The accompanying online resource from the Bishops' Conference, the livesimply network and wider youth ministry community is great anytime.
It's got a huge amount of useful stuff on it including 20 different activities, videos, games and 5 weeks of day-by-day reflections. In short - a lot to keep you going well into 2010!
You can find out what people did to reclaim the future here!
Treasure hunt This workshop connects school-level knowledge about climate change with stories of communities affected by climate change from around the world, and encourages young people to think about the ways in which they can take action as one member of a global family.
Going, going.... Put your life under the hammer in the Great Livesimply Auction! It asks questions about what we value and what we need, how our lives get cluttered, and what we can do to live more simply. Originally written for the Re:act festival in Birmingham.
Making connections Try this fun workshop from Pax Christi to get young people to make connections between different areas of Catholic Social Teaching - war, peace, the environment, sustainability, conflict, development, poverty.
Simply the Best! By popular demand, the CAFOD youth team's barmy but brilliant set of activities all based on Catholic Social Teaching is available online. There's acting, there's mix and match quoting - it's a game show like you've never seen one before.
Degrees of Change CAFOD commissioned a play about sustainability and climate change - it's about a group of young people facing up to the issues raised in different ways. > Download the script and accompanying resources here
A life in the Sun What's work for? What's enough? This drama by Jenny Baker appeared in the January 2007 edition of Youthwork magazine and it's VERY livesimply! (Apologies for the tatty copy, it's all we've got.)
Youth Crib Sheet
Simply the Best! Instructions
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