Short Bios – Spiritual Development in Youth Work Phil Daughtry



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Short Bios – Spiritual Development in Youth Work

Phil Daughtry

Phil’s interest in spirituality and youth work emerge from 20 years of direct youth work and eight years of working in the formation of youth work students in a tertiary environment. Phil’s practice and teaching have mostly been as an employee of faith-based organisations but with a focus on broad community engagement and dialogue with diverse perspectives on well-being, meaning and doing life well. Phil is based as an academic manager, teacher and scholar with Tabor Adelaide in South Australia and has a particular interest in the contemporary understanding of spirituality, the Australian context and the Christian tradition. He is currently reading a collection of essays by Australian atheists.  



Nigel Pimlott

Nigel has been working with young people and youth workers for over 30 years. He has had a long-standing interest in the subject of spirituality and young people, both within a faith context and across wider perspectives. As coordinator of Frontier Youth Trust's (FYT) Connect Spiritual Development Project, he has undertaken research, facilitated a wide variety of training and written a number of resources about the subject; most notably Glimpses and Glimpses for Young People. Nigel continues to work for FYT, but most of his current time is devoted to studying for a PhD in Faith-Based Youth Work and its place and space in civil society.


more info is on my web site if needed www.pimlott.org

Soo Redshaw

Soo has an eclectic cv. Trained as a teacher in Liverpool but escaped from formal to informal education immediately upon graduating. The main focus of my work is about personal development and experiential education (ideally in an outdoor context). I have been self employed for over 20 years and have clients in the voluntary, academic, business and public sectors.


I became conscious of spirituality when first asked to facilitate a young people’s "spiritual" residential in 2000. This challenging opportunity has enabled me to grapple with helping youth work practitioners and young people to explore and experience what spirituality means to them and to me. My eclecticism is reflected in my methodology and beliefs. I am currently reading books on dementia and on gardening.

Maxine Green

Maxine is currently exploring if it is possible to describe and measure spiritual skills and if it is possible how we can use this to support spiritual development in ourselves and others. Her background includes living in the Middle East for ten years, being the National Youth Officer for the Church of England for six years and studying Social Anthropology.


Meg Prowting

Meg’s interest in spirituality and young people stems from spending 12 years teaching RE in secondary education. Exploring spirituality is an integral part of Religious Education and Meg is interested in the ways young people engage with spirituality in schools and in churches. Meg has volunteered in faith based children’s and youth work for many years and currently works as the Youth Development Officer for the Methodist Church in Britain.


David Howell

For the last ten years David has been arguing the case for spiritual development across the UK, especially its inclusion within the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work ~ which was successful in 2008 and un-successful in 2012!.  This work has been carried out in his spare time alongside networking the Christian youth work constituency across the UK, and encouraging spiritual development within the young people in his own church.  His paid activity currently includes academic development with Moorlands College in Dorset, working with schoolswork.co.uk and Edexcel on standards and a new qualification for those who undertake voluntary work in schools, and working with South West Youth Ministries on the redesign of their Youth Work Academy course.



Gopi Patel

Gopi's spiritual interest has stemmed from her study and practice of Raja Yoga meditation, with the Brahma Kumaris, for over 28 years. Since the early 90’s, she has overseen the growth of the International Youth Forum (IYF) – a global movement comprising a network of some 8000 young adults (aged between 16 – 35) across 49 countries whose main aims are to experiment with, encourage and facilitate spiritual empowerment amongst young people.  As an international speaker and facilitator, her deep emphasis has been on the personal and spiritual growth of the individual, as a vehicle for social, economic development and the basis of organisational effectiveness. Her particular interest is in experimenting with spiritual principles to re-contextualise the experience of conflict and establish harmony; and through her travels, she is witnessing the emergence of the potential role that young people can play in co-creating harmony within their communities.


Peter Hart

Peter is currently studying towards a PhD in Sociology at the school of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. He is based in the Community and Youth Work department, where he is comparing church-based and statutory funded youth work for his research, with a particular interest in the 'professionalising' of youth work and the 'incarnational' model. Living in Hartlepool with his wife and two children, he also works part time for Hartlepool's integrated youth support services, and previously was the full time youth and children's worker for an Anglican church.



Andrew Orton

Andrew Orton, a lecturer in Community and Youth Work at Durham University with research and teaching interests in exploring good practice in faith-based community and youth work.



Lizzie Hackney.

Lizzie began volunteer youth work 15 years ago and has been employed by churches in the Stoke-on-Trent area for 12 years. During that time she has worked in diverse settings, Christian and secular and with many church traditions. She is currently employed by an Anglican Church in Stoke and is involved in collaborative work and Christian youth work training. Interests have always revolved around issues of church community, discipleship and Christian identity – particularly the interface between Christian youth workers and young people. This has led to her undertaking a PhD at Durham University, researching how church-based groups approach young people’s spiritual development within youth group settings




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