At Explore, we want to share with young people what it takes to create and sustain happy, healthy and loving long-term relationships.
And we are looking for couples…and crucially, happy, imperfect couples, to tell their story.
Do you…
Want to prove that great relationships exist?
Want to show that you don’t have to be perfect to be in a happy relationship?
Want to help young people create more stable, more loving, more caring relationships for themselves in the future?
We deliver sessions with 14 to 17 year olds to help them discuss, evaluate and explore the life skills needed for long-term, healthy relationships.
Healthy relationships are imperfect because not everything runs smoothly. Awareness about those bumps and how you survive provide a vital energy to our sessions.
Our experienced facilitators run the sessions and, after some discussion to help them explore their understanding of and feelings towards relationships, the young people ask questions of volunteer couples. This allows them to challenge media stereotypes about relationships, and any negative experiences of their own, to gain self-awareness, confidence, understanding and hope for their own future happiness.
“We volunteer with Explore because we know how important it is for young people to know that, despite very difficult times, people do manage to work through it and still have a really good relationship after many years” Explore Volunteer Couple.
We apply the principle of learning by experience, where young people lead their own open conversation to investigate the relationships of couples. Marriage is used as an example case study for a long term committed relationship and our young people are prepared and supported to draw conclusions from these dialogues.
We are seeking volunteer married couples (opposite sex, same sex and those in civil partnerships), to join us in our sessions with young people.