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What if young people’s resistance was seen as a source of strength rather than something to be challenged? This workshop shares insights from a five-year research project and explores how re-imagining resistance can open new possibilities for supporting young people experiencing harm.

DATE: Tuesday 23 March 2027

TIME: 10am-1pm

PRICE: £60 per person, or Buy Five Get One Free £300 (6 tickets)

Online via MS Teams

TARGETED AT: People working with young people across all sectors

Speaker: Prof Kristine Langhoff, Professor of Social Work

Resistance is a powerful and loaded word, open to interpretation and re-invention across time. It can be liberatory or destructive- sometimes both. However, when the term is used to describe young people (particularly outside of the context of political upheaval or a fight against injustice), it is often signals frustration- by adults who do not want young people to resist the things they’ve told young people to say, be, or do.  Here, resistance is a problem to be overcome and in the face of significant or serious harm, the pressure to convince young people to stop resisting builds.

What if young people’s resistance could be re-imagined entirely, as a force of vitality, health, and hope? For the last five years, a multi-disciplinary research team used a used a range of arts-based methods (photography, film, movement, poetry, and textiles) to study resistance, as both a theoretical concept and a meaningful, tangible lived and felt experience among young people affected by sexual and interpersonal violence. Led by Prof. Kristi Langhoff, they engaged an initial cohort of 20 young people and then worked with an additional 18 young people and 50 youth work and creative arts practitioners to turn their collective project into a practical resource, for use with young people experiencing multiple forms of harm.

This workshop will share what the team has learned and provide space to consider how re-imagining resistance can help bring new language, avenues for participation, and collective advocacy to work with young people experiencing (or at risk of) harm.

We will email you the access link to this workshop, and instructions on how to join, few days before the workshop scheduled date. All attendees will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the workshop.

If you are booking for multiple attendees, or on behalf of someone else, please email us at socialchangehub@sussex.ac.uk to let us know the names of the attendees.

For enquiries, please contact us at socialchangehub@sussex.ac.uk.

By purchasing the ticket, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and cancellation policy. Please read out terms and conditions and cancellation policy on Sussex Social Change Hub website.