Optimising Students’ Learning in Residential Halls: A Case Study of How to Connect Hall Life Education with Community Service

In this chapter, I will discuss my experience of merging my roles both as a Residence Master to a Residential hall and a teacher in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences for fifteen years in City University of Hong Kong. These concurrent appointments had finally givenme a challenge to create a youth volunteer project which in turn has also helped my hall to build its hall culture. I will share some of the background history on the inception, development and maturation of this project, as well as the theoretical concepts I have used to give its implementation a solid ground. From theory to practice in a hall environment, I called it a Humanistic-Empowerment model through the practice of a youth volunteering project. Its impacts on individual, hall, organization and community levels are also discussed. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022.