Future Thought Leaders Workshop

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What does the future of work look like? The Future Thought Leaders workshop is an innovative event organised by the Sudbury Workers Education and Advocacy Centre to recruit youth aged 7-14 to answer that very question. What is unique about this workshop is that the youth – our Future Thought Leaders – are asked to consider not just the workplace, but the conditions for the workers themselves. Will the future of work be one that is fair and equitable for all, with decent wages and benefits? Or are we destined to a gig economy, piecing out our total income through a series of haphazardly paid jobs? An interactive and collaborative experience, the Future Thought Leaders are asked to consider what decent work looks like. Confronted with several scenarios involving common workplace issues, participants work together to imagine what they would like the future of fair and equitable work to look like. Participants will have the chance to foster identified needed skills of the future workplace: imagination and creativity (ie out of the box thinking), teamwork and leadership skills, as well as their critical thinking. In addition, our Future Thought Leaders will learn about workers rights, the history of how these rights were gained, and about current issues in the workplace.