About the Futuremakers Forum :
The Futuremakers Forum brings stakeholders together to build partnerships and create opportunities for young people. Organized in partnership with Business Fights Poverty, this three-day online event is part of the Futuremakers by Standard Chartered, a global initiative designed to combat inequality by promoting greater economic inclusion of young people.
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Listen to Edward Stevenette, Head of Education and Facilitator at #LearningPlanet, who talks about his participation in the panel during the “Best Food Forward” session:
I was lucky enough to be part of a fascinating panel at the ”Best Foot Forward” session of the FutureMakers Forum, organized by the Standard Chartered Foundation. This session showcased a range of tools to help young people succeed and thrive in the future world of work, covering both theoretical and practical solutions to equip themselves with the skills needed to succeed. I was delighted to share our strategies for helping young people identify their purpose, including drawing inspiration from the IKIGAI tool. It's about exploring what you love, what the world needs, what you're good at and what you can find resources for. It's one of the many tools we use to support young people's development in the context of the unique challenges of the 21st century.
Some lessons learned from the event:
1. State of mind is important: The young people have taken on so many challenges over the past 18 months; all the tools and ideas shared tackled head-on how to excel, even in these difficult times.
2. The benefits of non-technical skills : Each intervention highlighted the value of soft skills, whether communication, self-confidence, contemplative practices and so on. Transferable skills are increasingly necessary, not only in the workplace, but also to meet the complex challenges of our times.
3. Intergenerational dialogue is essential
I learned as much from the questions asked as from the presentations themselves. One such question was: “How do we find balance in a world dominated by pressures and excesses? We should create as many spaces as possible for learning across ages, cultures, professions, nationalities and so on.
