About PYE
The happiness and success of our young people rests on more than academic achievement and IQ. They need life skills that traditional teaching and youth programmes don’t provide. Our mission is to fill that gap, providing creative, transformative learning experiences to help them tap into their full potential.
We do this by training and supporting the people who work with them – teachers, youth workers, artists and programme leaders – forging partnerships with organisations and communities across the globe.
Our training teaches and nurtures the creative skills required to engage young people. We offer a rich resource of tools that can be integrated into existing teaching practices or after-school workshops, camps and residential programmes for even deeper personal growth – and a model to help you set them up from scratch.
Combining this with a greater understanding of group dynamics and content delivery, we empower our trainees to create learning experiences with real impact. The outcome is young people better able to connect with who they are and create the life they really want.
The Creative Community Model
Our ‘train the trainer’ approach follows the Creative Community Model, which is based on the premise that we’re all innately creative – and you don’t need to be a professional artist to borrow powerful techniques from the arts. The Model integrates music, rhythm, visual arts, theatre, creative writing, storytelling and movement into the group facilitation and learning process. It also fosters the spirit of a creative community, whether that’s in a classroom or an organisation, within which participants are supported to express themselves, take creative risks, learn by doing and are seen and heard by others. In turn, trainers gain the creativity to become more imaginative and flexible in their delivery.
We do this by training and supporting the people who work with them – teachers, youth workers, artists and programme leaders – forging partnerships with organisations and communities across the globe.
Our training teaches and nurtures the creative skills required to engage young people. We offer a rich resource of tools that can be integrated into existing teaching practices or after-school workshops, camps and residential programmes for even deeper personal growth – and a model to help you set them up from scratch.
Combining this with a greater understanding of group dynamics and content delivery, we empower our trainees to create learning experiences with real impact. The outcome is young people better able to connect with who they are and create the life they really want.
The Creative Community Model
Our ‘train the trainer’ approach follows the Creative Community Model, which is based on the premise that we’re all innately creative – and you don’t need to be a professional artist to borrow powerful techniques from the arts. The Model integrates music, rhythm, visual arts, theatre, creative writing, storytelling and movement into the group facilitation and learning process. It also fosters the spirit of a creative community, whether that’s in a classroom or an organisation, within which participants are supported to express themselves, take creative risks, learn by doing and are seen and heard by others. In turn, trainers gain the creativity to become more imaginative and flexible in their delivery.
