This session explores the Core Competency 'Practices whai wāhitanga – creating space for youth participation'. This is informed by the Mana Taiohi principle of Whai Wāhitanga.
This session explores 'Youth workers are reflective practitioners, informed by rich and diverse mātauranga'. This competency is informed by the Mana Taiohi principle of Mātauranga.
In this session, Jane Zintl will explore the Core Competency 'Upholds and extends manaakitanga - caring for young people, ensuring their holistic safety'. This is connected to the Mana Taiohi principle of Manaakitanga.
This session will be exploring 'Works in a strengths based and mana enhancing (uplifting) way'. This Core Competency is informed by the Mana Taiohi principle Mana Manaakitanga.
Join Simon Mareko and a group of Pasifika men as they explore Hononga – Identifying And Strengthening Connectedness. This session includes reflections on past quality connections, methods for fostering quality connections and other pearls of wisdom.
This session explores prioritising whanaungatanga - the building of quality relationships. This is related to the Mana Taiohi principle of Whanaungatanga.
This session is on Core Competency 4 - Practices Te Tiriti-based partnerships. The related Mana Taiohi Principle is Whakapapa Te Ao.
This session explores Core Competency 2 and is hosted by Tane Keepa - Supports the development of identity. This relates to the Mauri Whakapapa Mana Taiohi principle.
John Harrington explores the third Core Competency in this session - Critically reflects on the context of youth work in Aotearoa. This is connected to the Whakapapa (of youth work) Mana Taiohi principle.
This is the first of ten webinars unpacking the Core Competencies of Youth Work in Aotearoa. In this first session, Fiona Beals discusses CC #1 - Understands the Context of Young People. The connected Mana Taiohi principle is Te Ao Taiohi Whakapapa Mauri.
This session summarises and redefines ”strengths-based” practice, builds upon existing strengths-focused and mana-enhancing approaches, offers ways of reframing your language, provides skills and frameworks for creating change and hope with young people.
This is the first in a series of trainings around understanding tīkanga through exploring the pōwhiri process and how the different elements can help both in our practice and in our lives. This session unpacks the importance of knowing who you are.
This session provides an overview of the current social-mediascape including what you need to know about the popular platforms, and what platforms you don't know but should.
This session covers important information that Christian (session facilitator) has learned about creating social media policies for his team.
Christian Gallen explains effective and creative ways that youth organisations can use social media and online platforms. This workshop offers an introduction-level training that may help generate fresh ideas for how to engage with youth online.
Responding to the global pandemic by exploring online options requires unique ethical considerations. This session introduces ethical concepts for digital youth work and provides information and resources to enhance youth work online.
This session explores practical considerations for using Zoom effectively, using breakout groups, polls and other techniques for discussion, the importance of chat and reactions features and the benefits of Zoom vs Microsoft Teams and other platforms.
This session explores actively engageing young people in shaping your work this from a practice, leadership and organisation perspective and offers some practical ways to involve and unlock the power of young people.
Hear insights Christian Gallen has gained about current trends and research into the topic of pornography, how it may be affecting young people and what helpful messages and support youth organisations could offer.
Hear the latest research in effective suicide prevention, where and how to help someone, misconceptions, impacts of sleep deprivation, how to address suicide safely with young people, how to support young people if there has been a death by suicide.
This webinar covers the relationship between sleep and wellbeing, bullying, metal illness, suicide, memory, self-esteem. IIt also looks at different sleeping patterns and problems and provides strategies to teach young people to sleep better.
Building on a model of youth wellbeing developed during a study of NZ High School students, this webinar explores different angles people working with and for young people can take are explored to support healthy development and wellbeing.
This talk focusses on impacts of sexual violence on a young person's life, how best to support from within a youth worker role, discuss the importance of boundaries and self care when doing this work, and how to work alongside families where appropriate.
Simi and Annie explore positive youth development in times of uncertainty, and insights about current research on what wellbeing for young people means. They also provide a framework for youth wellbeing and strategies to support young people's wellbeing
This workshop will brainstorm ideas for how youth workers can find strength and hope for the challenges after lockdown and ideas for assisting young people they work with do the same.
This workshop is intended to develop supervision skills and covers the roles and functions of supervision, guiding reflective conversation, questioning techniques, skills for balancing support and challenge, reflection and future development
This workshop explores how to get the best out of supervision. The outline of the session includes: defining supervision, what should supervision be doing?, building a supervision agreement and preparing for and reflecting in supervision.
This workshop will help you better support the young people you work with, as well as help you understand and manage your own responses to the Covid-19 crisis.
This workshop explores responding to disclosures about depression, anxiety, self harm, suicidal ideation, sexual abuse/violence and responding to young people coming out about sexual/gender identity.
This workshop is intended to further develop skills of experienced youth work supervisors and includes sharing practical experiences to deepen learning in supervision. We explore creative supervision agreements and common ethical issues
Introduction to and discussion of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi
The main focus of this training will continue discussion from last week on the Treaty of Waitangi and will cover: - Why a Treaty in Aotearoa? What did the treaty say? Historical contex. Relevance for youth work practice.
The pōwhiri process is introduced beginning with the wero (challenge) including: What to consider before entering into a relationship with tangata whenua, hapū and Māori? Rules of engagement. Who are we are approaching? How does this relate to youth work?
This training session will continue on the discussion of the pōwhiri process with a particular focus on Waharoa/Karanga with connections made to working with youth
Join Danette Abraham-Tiatia and Tane Keepa as they carry on the conversation begun in previous workshops about the pōwhiri process. This workshop will focus on the Whaikōrero.
This workshop will continue to look at the pōwhiri process with particular focus on the whare and kai.
This workshop will focus on the Wānanga in the pōwhiri process.
This webinar covers: What self-harm is, why young people do it, when someone needs medical attention, why self-harm is considered a contagious behaviour, when self-harm turns into suicide, and addresses common misconceptions of “seeking attention”