Task for reflection 2.

Here's a short paragraph from an article we wrote during the project about our experiences, please read it first. 

“Young people from both countries listed multiple personal obstacles they recognized, such as a lack of motivation, energy, or know-how to join the different participation activities, even if they consider them important. They also shared many experiences in which the opportunity to participate and make an impact wasn’t genuine: for example, the school board asked for the opinion of the student council, but this had no impact in the actual decision-making process. According to participants, bad experiences such as these were highly unmotivating and could easily be an obstacle for joining any further participation activities.” International Perspectives on Youth Participation  - Nuorisotyö-lehti (nuorisotyolehti.fi) Links to an external site.

Come back to your mindmap or list of the obstacles you wrote down and continue it by writing down what should be done to prevent and/ or overcome these obstacles from coming in the way of youth participation.