As a kid, I could spend hours making my own newspapers, recording home stories, and bringing ideas to life with a typewriter, a cassette recorder, a glue stick, and a stack of paper. That love for creating and storytelling stayed with me and eventually became my profession. I trained and worked as a journalist in Berlin, where I learned how to shape stories, interview people, and turn ideas into meaningful narratives.
Fast forward to today. I am a dad to three wonderful unschooled children, and creativity is simply part of how we live and learn together. From this journey, I founded YoungCre8ors — a space where kids and teens can explore their ideas, follow their curiosity, and develop projects that feel authentic and meaningful to them. I guide and support them from the first idea to the finished result, but they lead the process, and their voice comes first.
Over the years, I have delivered hands-on workshops for young people in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as online programmes for hundreds of kids and teens around the world.
And because creativity really is part of our family, this website was built by my son.
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Warm wishes,
Torsten
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We all appreciate the dedication
and creativity you put into your work and mentoring wholeheartedly.”
Jaimee Salonen
Parent
Torsten on the Self Directed podcast:
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In today’s culture, creative disciplines are too often underrated. Even though numerous studies have shown that in tomorrow’s world, it is not (just) the academic knowledge that will make young people stand out from the crowd. Being able to work well in a team, find creative solutions to problems, ask creative questions and look at the world and its challenges with a flexible, creative mind –
those are the skills no robot can perform.