Upcoming Training Opportunities
Training Opportunities
The Neutral Zone is a nationally recognized expert in positive youth development, student voice and youth driven practices. Whether we are training youth, adults, or both, the training experience is active and cooperative, focused on helping participants apply strategies for their own settings.
“Anytime I’ve worked with the Neutral Zone, I’m always left with more confidence and more tools to implement in my work… it’s not just theory, you walk out with practical ways to change how you work.”
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Research demonstrates that providing youth greater voice and leadership in the programs that serve them has many benefits: their participation grows, as does their engagement, interest, and investment. A greater leadership role provides new opportunities to develop 21st century skills like problem-solving, collaboration, communication & critical thinking.
As a result of the 2-day training participants will be able to:
Identify meaningful roles youth can play in programs
Learn the components and stages of Neutral Zone’s Teen Advisory Council
Examine participatory research processes as a way to engage youth
Learn and use planning strategies that can be applied to involving students in project
Understand the components of youth-adult partnerships (YAP) and how to support YAP
Learn the components of intrinsic motivation and how to support the developmental needs of young people.
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Neutral Zone offers a 2-day Introduction course and a 3-day Train-the-Trainer.
Restorative Practices are proactive and reactive strategies used to:
build community
develop positive program/organization climate and culture
repair harm using non-punitive approaches
reduce discipline.
Restorative Practices (RP) can be used in OST programs, schools, with friends, and at home alike. Regardless of the setting, RP centers relationships; promoting connection and belonging.
Since 2017 the Neutral Zone has been training educators, youth worker, social workers and more in Restorative Practices, applying our youth driven framework to the content and training experience. Similar to youth driven practices, RP shares power, values the voices and experiences of others, and is an adaptive strategy for group work.
Train the Trainer (ToT) course for Restorative Practices exclusively for school and youth program staff who have completed the 2-Day Intro Restorative Practices workshop. The ToT aims to prepare participants to lead the Intro to RP & Circles training to colleagues and youth alike. The training is organized around the following themes:
How to be an Effective and Self Aware Trainer
Facilitation and the Restorative Practices Content
Training Others in the RP Content
Learn more about Neutral Zone’s Restorative Practices and Circles training at Eastern Michigan University.
We offer a catalog of training and coaching services. Much of it is offered for youth and adult teams, or youth serving staff who want to be more youth driven.
Check out our offerings here.
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