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Iona Community Lecture 2025
13 June @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POSTPONED
We regret to inform you that the Iona Community Lecture originally scheduled for Friday, 13th June 2025 has been postponed due to unforeseen health concerns affecting our lecturers.
TheGKexperience remain enthusiastic about delivering the lecture and we are working with them to reschedule it. Everyone who has booked will be notified as soon as a new date is confirmed.
Further updates will be shared here in due course. Thank you for your understanding.
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Along for the journey
We’re delighted to bring you the 2025 Iona Community Lecture in partnership with theGKexperience (GK). GK have been coming to Camas, the Iona Community’s residential outdoor activity centre on the isle of Mull for many years. Like the Iona Community, GK prioritises community, making clear that ‘theGKexperience is not a programme but a community’.
The context
In this lecture, GK Experience will delve into their long-term relational youth work approach. They will share how they support brilliant young people who face unfair barriers due to poverty, inequality, and injustice in Glasgow. Unpacking their ethos, they will demonstrate how they actively challenge harmful assumptions. Assumptions that disregard, stigmatise, and label young people as no-hopers and troublemakers. Instead, GK envisions these same young people as Scotland’s next generation of leaders.
The approach
Both leaders and young people will share their journeys—from being supported by GK to becoming adult volunteers themselves. Key to their approach is a deep commitment to:
- listening to young people,
- understanding their context and behaviours,
- remaining flexible, and
- providing meaningful opportunities for responsibility and leadership.
Facilitators
theGKexperience is a youth work charity in Glasgow and the wider area. Founded on the belief that all young people are brilliant, and that they all deserve the same opportunities to succeed, they work to make their aspirations a reality. They build long-term trusting and respectful relationships with young people and their families over years. They prioritise listening to their voices and are welcomed by them to offer support. GK are persistent in their engagement, love, and support, especially if it becomes difficult due the barriers they face. Working alongside young people in their local settings and outdoor residential and wilderness experiences, they help them to soar. GK provide an integrated model of support across 4 areas: Residential experiences, local community work, a young leaders programme and tailored individual support.
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