This was the first session of the day where we got to actually participate. My session was titled "Youth Friendly Work Places". It was more or less an unstructured discussion about what the stakeholders can do to get workplaces more in-tune with work. Our dialogue centred around the need for workplace education and the end of temporary work. Most everyone was on the same page except for one guy who was pretty bitter that he got an education degree and now has a job that has nothing to do with that and his employer doesn't recognize his skills – well, you work in a career you weren't trained for? What do you expect?

While there was an attempt to steer the conversation in a particular direction, it was pretty unstructured in terms of facilitation. The facilitators had more input into the conversation than they probably should have. Either way, I'm not sure how concrete or pragmatic the recommendations from our session are going to be at this point – we'll find out later today.