Discovering new paths to Learning and Life Development
Together in Communities

This video presentation will begin with Dr Lloyd describing a range of initiatives occurring in Australia, developed around relational learning and using participative, appreciative and dialogical forms of sharing and inquiry among traumatised adolescents and young adults. These examples will be drawn from the network of Special Assistance High Schools for kids (in Years 9-10 in high school) kicked out of mainstream education, because of the acting out behaviours resulting from their trauma and pain-relief-seeking substance use; and early school leaving young adults who are long-term unemployed and headed into poverty or goal. After briefly covering the approaches we use, the group will be invited to share their feelings and experiences, strategies and lessons learnt in their contexts.