Observation, inquiry, invitation
Each studio cycle moves through three movements, carried out in the rhythm of study, act, reflect, consult.
Young people practise seeing and hearing their surroundings as witnesses, and record what they notice.
They turn what they observed into questions, and pursue them with study, conversation, and consultation.
They share what they found, and invite others to see and act. The best of it is published on Integer.
Young people explore what it means to attend to their own growth and to contribute to the transformation of society.
Small groups take up service their community needs, and keep reflection journals as they go.
Study of social reality: how to read what is happening in a community, and why.
Young people learn to observe as witnesses and report what they find, clearly and truthfully.
One city deep, then the next
Each studio grows with partners in its own city before the next one opens.
Where perception finds expression
Integer is the name under which the perceptions and expressions of young people — and of the educators, scholars, and neighbours who learn alongside them — reach the public. GYEC shapes the curriculum that forms young dispatchers; Integer publishes what they make.
What a dispatcher observed, when and where, and how they know it.
Lived experience set beside existing research, showing where it confirms, complicates, or contradicts the official picture.
Conversations with scholars that open with an observation, take a book as the lens, and close with an invitation.
Discussion guides so educators and youth groups can use each piece in their own work.
Every gift is put to work in the studios, and shared in our annual report.