“Culture Garden: Youth Leadership for Collaboration” was a training course that offered an opportunity for youth workers and those working with young people to learn essential tools and practices, as well as opportunities for individual & group self-reflection, which empower young people to succeed in any collaborative group context. The program engaged with leadership, not as a quality held by one person or by a select few, but as a whole-group phenomenon. The governance practices a group uses, the ways that conflict, feedback & communication are navigated, a group’s relationship to creativity and self-expression; its economic paradigms & more inform what kind of leadership it potentiates & responds to. In the project, youth leaders were trained to give young people experiential opportunities to learn & build confidence using the “cultural tools” that enable collaboration in their school, employment & community contexts. Main Aim: To provide youth workers with competences & paradigms to empower young people to become effective collaborators in their local community and economic contexts. To reach this aim we had the following objectives: OBJECTIVES - to critically engage with the phenomenon of group CULTURE, and to understand the defining elements and impacts of COLLABORATIVE group cultures; - to understand and value the important role of DIVERSITY in collaboration and collaborative cultures; - to learn FRAMEWORKS, TOOLS & PRACTICES for collaboration across the dimensions of: Diversity, Economics, Governance, Conflict, Communication, Somatic Psychology, and Place/Nature; - to PRACTICE and incorporate these frameworks, tools & practices within the group process; - to provide opportunities for individual SELF-REFLECTION in relation to each dimension to identify personal strengths and weaknesses, and to create a personal collaborative leadership PROFILE; - to EMPOWER young people to become more active participants in their local governments, economies, and communities, and to SHAPE their local cultures towards a more collaborative ethos; - to equip young people with the core skills and frameworks to succeed in the VOLATILE and EMERGENT conditions that are becoming the norm worldwide; - to CULTIVATE PERSONAL & GROUP RESILIENCE in the face of change & uncertainty