The Wabi Center for Youth Development

Supporting people & programs doing exceptional hands-on, mentorship-focused youth development work.

Resources

Part of our mission is to support and amplify the work of others doing exceptional experiential youth development work. Sharing resources, both ones we've created and ones we've found useful, is one way we do that.

The Wabi Approach to Youth Development

Position paper — The Wabi Center for Youth Development

A long-form essay on the philosophy behind our work: what wabi actually means and where it comes from, what's broken about conventional youth development, and our theory of change built around Craftsmanship, Stewardship, and Agency.

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