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If you require your organisation to pay for this workshop, please click the Register Only button below and complete the registration form. You will be sent an invoice by our admin team.
This interactive online workshop supports practitioners to work confidently, relationally, and ethically with multicultural and diverse young people, without over-controlling, stereotyping, or avoiding difference. Grounded in strengths-based practice and cultural humility, the workshop focuses on posture, relationship, and how practitioners show up in youth contexts shaped by identity, power, culture, and political discourse. Rather than treating culture as something to master, participants are invited into an ongoing practice of reflection, curiosity, and partnership.
Across the workshop, participants explore how deficit narratives and “risk” framings shape practice, and how to shift toward approaches that recognise young people’s strengths, agency, cultural knowledge, and contribution. The emphasis is on working with young people - holding safety and boundaries while creating conditions for belonging, participation, and influence.
The workshop integrates reflective and practical components, moving from awareness into application. Participants engage with real-world youth scenarios, facilitation strategies, and asset-based tools that can be applied immediately in groups, programs, consultations, and participatory processes.
Who should attend:
This workshop is designed for people working with, for, or alongside young people from multicultural, culturally diverse, racialised, and faith-based backgrounds, including youth workers, facilitators, managers, policy and strategy staff, youth development officers, and others shaping youth-focused systems, services, or decisions.
Participants will develop:
Greater confidence working across difference without fear, rigidity, or avoidance
A clear strengths-based and culturally humble frame for multicultural youth work
Practical facilitation strategies that support inclusion, participation, and influence
Tools to recognise and mobilise young people’s strengths (head, heart, and hands)
Increased awareness of power, positioning, and adult authority in youth spaces
Approaches for moving beyond tokenism toward meaningful participation
When: Tuesday 5th May 2026 from 1.00pm- 4.00pm (AEST)
Where: Online eWorkshop via Zoom. If payment has been received, you will receive the Zoom details in the week prior to the eWorkshop .
Cost: The early bird booking is $220.00 if registration occurs before 21st April (GST included). The fee for registrations after the 21st April is $275.00 (GST included).
To register: Register and complete payment. A Tax Invoice will be emailed to you. The payment needs to be completed before the workshop occurs, for the registration to be fully confirmed
Facilitator: Dimitrios Papalexis
Dimitrios Papalexis is a dynamic community leader, counsellor, and creative practitioner dedicated to empowering young people, organisations, and diverse communities to thrive. With expertise spanning youth and community engagement, consultancy and coordination, and training, facilitation, and hosting, he brings strong leadership and communication skills to his work. Dimitrios works at the intersection of co-design, sector development, and stakeholder engagement - delivering impactful workshops, creative events, and performances that amplify voice, build social capital, and strengthen connection. His experience in business and product development, project management, and strategic communication supports initiatives to move from vision into sustainable, real-world outcomes.