I’ve just completed a set of great graffiti workshops with young people in Peckham and Southwark. We had fun, learnt a lot and developed some good relationships.
Spraypainting is very difficult, but for some reason people think they’ll be really good straight away! This gives me a great opportunity to help them work through fears of failure and realise that the only way to get good at difficult things is practice.
I was pleased to read in my feedback that the young people thought that with more practice they would get better.
One of the key workers helping out said “I liked the facilitation and the fact that you let the young people learn from their mistakes. Good relationships built with the young people as well”.
And some comments from the young people: “It was very good I liked everything about it”, “It was fun, good and lots of practice for when I’m older”.