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Facilitating Youth Voices: A Seeds of Peace Workshop
You will leave this two-hour workshop (virtual as well as in-person in select locations) with new activities and exercises that you can use immediately in your youth-centered spaces.
Why we work with adults
Seeds of Peace is committed to expanding our network of educators and adult allies who understand and practice the skills we promote in our programs: dialogue, community-building, youth leadership, and action-taking. We know that by investing in you we are also supporting the youth across all of our communities.
Who is this workshop for?
Any adult who works in some capacity with high school-aged youth who would like to learn easily-applied strategies for bringing dialogue and youth-centered instruction to their work with students.
What will we do?
This “Facilitating Youth Voices” workshop offers participants a crash-course introduction to the dialogic practices used by Seeds of Peace facilitators and program implementers, including how to create youth spaces that promote connection rather than division, the powerful role of listening and questioning in youth spaces, and what to do when conflict strikes.
Workshop Objectives
- Participants will gain an understanding of Seeds of Peace programs, mission, and vision.
- Participants will learn how to create youth-centered learning spaces.
- Participants will gain skills to facilitate exercises and activities that promote listening, curiosity, and set the stage for deeper conversations across lines of difference.
- Participants will learn strategies around facilitating through conflict, when a conversation or interaction has gone sideways.
Agenda Outline
- An Introduction to Seeds of Peace
- Co-Creating Group Norms
- Purpose-Setting, Shared Definitions, and the “Why” of Dialogue, Community-Building, Youth Leadership, and Action-Taking
- Dialogic Classroom Skills: Listening, Questioning, and the Role of Conflict
- The Intervention: Stepping in When Conversations Go Sideways
- Mechanisms for Group Work—Using Structure to Lift Student Voice
- Questions, Wrap-Up, What is Next