Icebreakers and Team Builders to Cultivate Connection
School is back in session this summer and our students will be bursting with energy and excitement. Students will need restorative guidance to support in-person connection after a year of distance learning. Our activities will be grounded in Antiracist Youth Development Theory that will infuse moment and creativity to cultivate social and emotional learning.
When practitioners integrate and model antiracist pivots, they can empower the youth of colour to be critical and feel empowered to respond to racism in their daily lives. In this training, youth development practitioners will examine how our individual experiences in white-dominant institutions have shaped our leadership and influenced the way we think about organizational and program practices.
Some of the greatest violence in our systems is initiated when we send some people the message that they are not smart enough, equipped enough, or worthy of being part of a team. Our facilitation methodology is built on the principles of equity and inclusion–that every person has something uniquely valuable to contribute, and that the facilitator unpacks and constructs learning with the group, rather than as a lecturer or instructor.
Group development theory states that youth must feel they have strong relationships with each other in order to exert authority and have the confidence to take risks, open up and learn from mistakes as leaders, planners and program designers. They must also learn to manage transitions and experience structured tools for facilitation and group process. When adults carefully model and facilitate these critical components, youth will be able to replicate them when they are in charge.
Center in Transformative Social Emotional Learning
Transformative SEL is anchored in the notion of justice-oriented citizenship. SEL can be a powerful lever for creating caring, just, inclusive, and healthy communities that support all individuals in reaching their fullest potential. It can help organization leaders promote understanding, examine biases, reflect on and address the impact of racism, build cross-cultural relationships, and cultivate adult and student practices that close opportunity gaps and create more inclusive youth development programs.
How do we motivate our youth to make positive behavior choices when they really don't want to! How do we reframe conflict as learning opportunities to deepen our ability to form strong relationships and build skills? This training builds on the youth development principles of engagement, skill building and community involvement. Participants will learn simple and creative strategies to prevent conflict, intervene during conflict, and restore relationships after conflict.
In this workshop, participants will begin by developing a holistic approach to mental and physical well-being, and then build a working definition of interpersonal, intergenerational, and systemic (such as racism, sexism and classism) trauma in the world around us. Holding a resilience and healing analysis, we will then unpack how the body naturally protects itself and heals itself from traumatic incidents. Through this analysis, we will be able to hold space for ourselves and others with more compassion and intelligence, to ultimately create more connected communities.
Every student learns differently. Our goal as educators is to teach ALL students. If an effort to reach all students, teachers need to present content in a variety of ways using a variety of modalities. In this session, participants will learn strategies to deepen relational trust amongst your students to visibilize how to support various learning styles, and classroom agreements that will allow for more transparency and inclusion.
Icebreakers and Team Builders to Cultivate Connection
School is back in session this summer and our students will be bursting with energy and excitement. Students will need restorative guidance to support in-person connection after a year of distance learning. Our activities will be grounded in Antiracist Youth Development Theory that will infuse moment and creativity to cultivate social and emotional learning.
When practitioners integrate and model antiracist pivots, they can empower the youth of colour to be critical and feel empowered to respond to racism in their daily lives. In this training, youth development practitioners will examine how our individual experiences in white-dominant institutions have shaped our leadership and influenced the way we think about organizational and program practices.
Some of the greatest violence in our systems is initiated when we send some people the message that they are not smart enough, equipped enough, or worthy of being part of a team. Our facilitation methodology is built on the principles of equity and inclusion–that every person has something uniquely valuable to contribute, and that the facilitator unpacks and constructs learning with the group, rather than as a lecturer or instructor.
Group development theory states that youth must feel they have strong relationships with each other in order to exert authority and have the confidence to take risks, open up and learn from mistakes as leaders, planners and program designers. They must also learn to manage transitions and experience structured tools for facilitation and group process. When adults carefully model and facilitate these critical components, youth will be able to replicate them when they are in charge.
Center in Transformative Social Emotional Learning
Transformative SEL is anchored in the notion of justice-oriented citizenship. SEL can be a powerful lever for creating caring, just, inclusive, and healthy communities that support all individuals in reaching their fullest potential. It can help organization leaders promote understanding, examine biases, reflect on and address the impact of racism, build cross-cultural relationships, and cultivate adult and student practices that close opportunity gaps and create more inclusive youth development programs.
How do we motivate our youth to make positive behavior choices when they really don't want to! How do we reframe conflict as learning opportunities to deepen our ability to form strong relationships and build skills? This training builds on the youth development principles of engagement, skill building and community involvement. Participants will learn simple and creative strategies to prevent conflict, intervene during conflict, and restore relationships after conflict.
In this workshop, participants will begin by developing a holistic approach to mental and physical well-being, and then build a working definition of interpersonal, intergenerational, and systemic (such as racism, sexism and classism) trauma in the world around us. Holding a resilience and healing analysis, we will then unpack how the body naturally protects itself and heals itself from traumatic incidents. Through this analysis, we will be able to hold space for ourselves and others with more compassion and intelligence, to ultimately create more connected communities.
Every student learns differently. Our goal as educators is to teach ALL students. If an effort to reach all students, teachers need to present content in a variety of ways using a variety of modalities. In this session, participants will learn strategies to deepen relational trust amongst your students to visibilize how to support various learning styles, and classroom agreements that will allow for more transparency and inclusion.
