14/08/2026
Mentoring sessions aren’t always about sitting across from each other and talking, sometimes, they’re a session of exercise🥊
Lucas’ boxing sessions at Harbour School have shown us just how valuable movement can be for young people. Exercise can have such a positive impact on mental wellbeing, helping to reduce stress, release emotions and give young people a healthy outlet.
It’s a bit like the “walk and talk” method. Sometimes, when you’re moving and doing something together, natural conversations just happen without the pressure of sitting down and having a conversation.
Lucas’ boxing sessions give young people an outlet in a completely different way, whether that’s through having a distraction, building discipline, getting some movement in or simply having a positive space to focus on. And without always realising it, those natural conversations can start to happen too.
You don’t always know the impact something like this is having in the moment, but creating a space where a young person feels comfortable, can move, talk, laugh and just be themselves can go a long way.
It’s something we’ve seen the value in so much that it has led to a much bigger project for us, Next Gen Movement, where we’ll be able to offer a variety of sessions like these for the young people who need them most.
Sometimes mentoring doesn’t look like talking. Sometimes it looks like putting on a pair of boxing gloves and moving💪