This badge is awarded to youth workers who have explored their personal and professional responses to change, with a specific focus on digital youth work contexts. Through this activity, they reflected on change processes, recognised internal and external resistance, and identified concrete next steps to support their growth and competence development.
To earn this badge, youth worker needed to:
- Map their own process of change using a provided model
- Identify personal resistance to change and its impact on digital practice
- Define one concrete step for continued growth in digital youth work
Skills and experiences gained
This badge is aligned to following Digital Competences in Youth Work (DYW SNAC) areas:
- Self-reflection and lifelong learning – being aware of one’s own learning process and actively planning and engaging in lifelong and life-wide learning.
- Learning and creativity with digital tools – experimenting with and reflecting on the use of digital tools in creative ways for own learning and professional development.
- Shared guidelines and peer learning – engaging in shared understanding and co-creating learning environments with others.
- Ethical and values-based digital youth work – acting in accordance with ethical standards and youth work values during times of professional transition.
This badge shows the earner’s awareness of how change affects personal learning and professional practice, and their ability to engage with change constructively in digital youth work. Cities of Learning Network partners value badge earners’ reflections and issue this badge after reviewing the provided evidence.