Resources: Classic text revisited - Problems of Human Relations inYouth Groups - Josephine Macalister Brew, 1952

Less pompously, perhaps, the essay asks how we lead a good life and act as good citizens. Brew offers accounts of practice using little dramas and sketches to bring to life the kind of ethical and emotional dilemmas youth group members face, followed by discussion that would help them realise their own problems are not unique and that, in a characteristic Brew formulation, "the attainment of the good life (is) the unfinished problem of all men to the end of their days". Further work involved getting young people to make short lists - initially of simple things such as "of what are you most afraid?", but building towards key questions of what we think of as good and valuable in our lives. From these, her groups devised narratives - stories, anecdotes and parables - that all ended with the question "what would you have done?".