PRESENTATIONS
Customizable Presentations
Youth-Led Democratic Innovation
Breaking Barriers (Understanding diverse youth identities)
Insert Youth Here (Understanding key benefits of engaging young people in a industry-specific way)
The length of the presentations depends on how much content you’re looking for. The base duration of a presentation is 1 hour and maximum duration is 3 hours, discussion period included.
1 hour presentations starting at $1,000.00 CAD*.
90-minute presentations starting at $1,500.00 CAD*.
Customization of presentations start at an additional $500.00 CAD* to base price.
*These prices do not include additional charges for on-site work, travel and applicable taxes.
These presentations can be a great way for you to experience how our insight can help shape your next program, initiative or expansion. We recommend following up the presentation with our highly personalized One-Day Brainstorms or Audits.
Youth-Led Democratic Innovation (YLDI)
Young people are not engaging in democracy and politics the same way they did decades ago. However, their participation isn’t dead - it’s just different.
YLDI is a framework developed by Apathy is Boring aiming to redefine the way we view civic participation, especially when it comes to young people. In this presentation, we walk through the shifting landscape of youth participation, and get to the heart of what matters to them, what they are looking for in order to be engaged, and why they aren’t finding it in today’s democratic institutions.
This presentation will give you insight into valuable research supported by Apathy is Boring’s successful program development, while providing you with practical tools to build meaningful relationships with youth in your community.
*Customization
We understand that different realities and systems call for different interventions. While our research is fixed, we can design all presentations to reflect exactly how this framework applies to your work and engaging youth in your sector. Customizations will highlight key factors present in your current practices preventing you from effectively maximizing the innovative potential of youth, as a first look into how we can work together to co-create solutions during a one-day brainstorm or a future audit.
Breaking Barriers
Millennial and Gen-Z youth are not a monolith. They have very diverse identities, priorities, and realities; and with that amount of diversity comes many challenges that prevent them from fully participating in, initiatives, programs, projects, and ultimately - our democracy - in ways that make them feel empowered, and generate true change. We cannot rely on a one-size-fits-all approach to youth engagement if we want to meaningfully reach them with our work.
Through our work with the Environics Institute, we were able to identify and learn more about the social values that motivate Millennial and Gen-z youth when it comes to engagement, community contribution and civic participation.
This presentation will help understand how limiting beliefs and broader narratives can define our engagement potential, and realize the importance of approaching youth engagement through an anti-oppression and intersectional lens.
*Customization
We can put together an analysis of the youth your services are intended to reach, and identify where your efforts need work as well as specific approaches used by successful initiatives.
Insert Youth Here
Confronting the “youth only belong in ____” narrative is pivotal in reaching the best version of our society. We genuinely believe that youth belong in any space where decisions that impact them or their future are being made. And that means, their perspectives and input should be inserted, well, everywhere.
Innate problem-solvers and innovators, young people are wired to adapt, and bring their unique lens to any table where decisions are being made. Unbeknownst to many, their insight is what makes the difference between where your organization is today, and where it ultimately has the potential to be tomorrow.
In this presentation, we look at how centering diverse youth perspectives in sector-specific work has demonstrated a significant increase in innovation, sustainable practices and long term financial payoff. We also explore how the skills and experiences a young person brings to their engagement with an institution also translates to their participation in their communities, and consequently, in Canadian democracy.
*Customization
Youth Friendly can offer some insight into how organizations in your specific sector/industry have benefited from youth engagement at different levels of participation, be it on an advisory board, within the staff, at management and higher levels, and some key takeaways.