Youthworks Institute, along with Scripture Union and Converge invite you to:
’Your Story’ Research Presentation & Workshop

Come and hear from Graham Stanton who’ll be presenting the key findings and implications of ‘Your Story’ - a ground-breaking research project that gathered stories from over 400 Australian young people. The project explores questions around who and what has, and is, shaping their faith from their childhood, adolescence, and the present time.

This research offers us a new way of understanding, not just of where a young person is currently, but what their faith journey has been like from their childhood to now - including all the twists and turns across the different eras of their life. This research honours the spiritual experiences of young people and challenges anyone working with young people to be better listeners as we accompany young people in their stories of faith.


Speaker: Graham Stanton
Date: Thursday 1 May 2025
Time: 5pm onwards
Location: Youthworks College, Newtown
Cost: $45.00 per person, including dinner

About Graham Stanton:
Rev Dr Graham Stanton was one of the lead researchers on the Your Story project. Graham has been at the forefront of children’s and youth ministry research in Australia over the past twenty-five years and is an active contributor to the international academic community in youth ministry and practical theology. He is the author of Wide-Awake in God’s World: Bible Engagement for Teenage Spiritual Formation in a Culture of Expressive Individualism, co-editor of the forthcoming South Asian Handbook for Theology of Youth Ministry, and an associate editor of the Journal of Youth and Theology. Graham is the Director of the Centre for Children’s and Youth Ministry at Ridley College, Melbourne, the Founder and Director of the Youth Ministry Futures Project, and a volunteer youth leader at St Jude’s Anglican Church in Parkville in Melbourne’s inner north.

Read more about ‘Your Story’ research project here.