Good detached work training session in Bishops Stortford yesterday with a fairly eclectic bunch of people. Off to do some stuff in Weston super Mare next week and at the MAYC conference the week after. One thing that was interesting yesterday was how easy it is to talk about issues without really recognizing the people they affect. I often use a worksheet to explore what people think about different issues eg giving out condoms to young people, but this time I included a story about the issue stressing that it was real young person, not just an abstract concept. It is so easy to detach real life from discussions and think theory rather practice. The way people engaged with the discussion in so much more depth and passion and way the dicussion changed reminded me of the difference between orthodoxy (believing what is right) and then when confronted with real lives the need for Orthopraxis (doing what is right, which can seem to conflict with one another. The Wickeds full