Youth Work Methods Workshops

Get ready for summer programming with David P. Weikart’s Youth Work Methods Workshops! Debralyn Woodberry-Shaw, PhD, LMSW, will host six Youth Work Methods Workshops over the course of two Saturdays (June 14, 2025 and June 21, 2025):

*Structure and Clear Limits
*Reframing Conflict
*Ask-Listen-Encourage
*Cooperative Learning
*Building Community
*Planning and Reflection

Descriptions
*Structure and Clear Limits – This workshop helps staff establish appropriate structure (routines and rituals) and clear limits (norms and behavior guidelines), fostering a feeling of fairness and predictability that supports young people to explore and express themselves in a conducive learning environment.

*Reframing Conflict – This workshop provides a six-step, youth-centered, nonthreatening way of resolving conflicts that occur in youth settings. It is a problem-solving approach that seeks to turn conflicts into learning opportunities.

*Ask-Listen-Encourage – 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.

*Cooperative Learning – This workshop gives strategies for successfully incorporating interactive, interdependent, goal-oriented group work into youth programs. Working in pairs or groups supports young people in being active, self-directing, and expressive.

*Building Community – This workshop introduces methods for building supportive, youth-centered relationships and prepares participants to ask effective questions, listen actively to youth, and encourage young people by tapping their intrinsic motivation.

*Planning and Reflection – 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.