Spring 2025 Training Calendar
Youth Work Method: Ask, Listen, Encourage
April 1, 2025
10:00 – 11:30 am
This workshop provides strategies for carrying out positive, purposeful interactions with young people through asking effective questions, letting young people speak, and making specific observations about their decisions that encourage them to succeed.
Youth Work Method: Active Learning
April 8, 2025
10:00 – 11:30 am
This workshop provides practical strategies for actively engaging young people in their own learning process by providing meaningful, challenging content with strong adult support.
Youth Work Method: Youth Voice
April 15, 2025
10:00 – 11:30 am
This workshop guides staff to support young people by providing opportunities for voice and choice. With proper support and scaffolding over time, young people grow in responsible decision-making and leadership.
Youth Work Method: Planning and Reflection
April 22, 2025
10:00 – 11:30 am
This workshop provides practical and fun tools for engaging young people in the Plan-Do-Reflect learning process. It focuses on establishing clear, comprehensive plans at the beginning of an activity and reflecting on the results and process after the activity has been completed.
SEL Method: Facilitating Problem Solving
April 29, 2025
10:00 am – 11:30 pm
This workshop gives youth workers practical tools to build problem solving opportunities into programs and support young people with in-the-moment problem solving. Participants will learn the basics of how our brain solves problems and will practice a model for helping young people define and explore problems, preparing them to take action and learn from them.
SEL Method: Promoting Responsibility & Leadership
May 6, 2025
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
In this workshop participants will explore how responsibility and leadership fit within a broader SEL framework and develop practical skills to model roles and responsibilities and support youth in leveraging their strengths, interests, and leadership style as part of groups and relationships. Participants will practice applying techniques learned to their programs with an eye toward facilitating youth ownership.