While currently making his impact at Flexible Education, Zac Noble has become a sector-shaping figure over his 7 years of youth and community work. He is known for his professional, passionate, intentional and respectful self. Zac inspires his peers and young people in how he role models holistic and relational youth work, but regularly seeks out training, mentors, and opportunities to learn how he can be a better youth worker. He is also known for his creative use of metaphor, and the reflection it invokes in his practice.
Zac has been pivotal in creating many of the youth programs in the ACT today. Recent examples of his work include a collaboration with CIT and Birrigai to deliver a Certificate II in Construction to Muliyan students which includes the students constructing a bus shelter at Birrigai Outdoor School. Another, working with the Natural Resource Management team, Zac coordinated Muliyan’s first overnight On-Country camp in Tidbinbilla at the completion of a 6-month weekly on-country program. For students who have historically been excluded from such rites of passage, this stands as a transformative achievement.
His capacity to grow connections and nurture communities through modelling, mentorship and sharing has had life-changing ripple effects for young people throughout the territory. Zac nurtures the opportunity for young people to heal through relationships in community-building, and advocates that “community problems can’t be solved with individual solutions”. For this reason, he is relentless in his pursuit of transforming systems, particularly with youth justice and policing, to make them better for young people. Zac champions both youth work and community-level change to create a better world for all.
