The Need
A report found nearly half of young carers were stressed and 44% were tired. Bourne Academy commissioned Your Future Impact deliver a self-awareness workshop for its young carers to help them balance the demands of home, school and teenage life.

Our Solution
As part of a wider programme from the school to support its young people with caring responsibilities, Your Future Impact Delivered a Self Awareness workshop using the Young People Index® and LEGO® Serious Play® Self-Awareness: Each participant took the Young People Index® to gain a deeper understanding of their unique impact and contribution within a team, and potential areas for growth. This self-awareness helped them understand how they, as individuals, contributed to
teams, but also got them to think about how their teams work together collectively.

LEGO® Serious Play®
Equipped with the self knowledge from the earlier Young People Index®, the group had some fun using LEGO® to create models that communicated their own unique strengths and motivations. The group were able to reflect together on what that meant for how they worked together, giving them an understanding of the different ways that teams can support each other while working together.

“As part of our Young Aspirers programme, Helen Rivero, from Your Future Impact delivered a very successful self-awareness workshop, using the Young People Index and Lego. They were all able to relate to the strengths profile provided by The Young People Index and then enjoyed using Lego to help define their own strengths to their peers. The students, from Years 9 and 10 (13-15 year olds), were all selected as young carers who are in need of the extra support from school to develop their careers choices. The Bourne Academy careers strategy aims to target our resources to particular groups such as SEN, scholars and young carers on top of the progressive careers provision for all. This programme was funded by the soon-to-be phased-out Southern Universities Network (SUN)”

Andrew Roberts-Wray
Careers and Aspirations Assistant Lead Bourne Academy