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This program will help you learn how to manage aggressive behaviors; set firm boundaries; employ meaningful consequences; develop healthy relationships; and above all, take care of yourself during stressful times.
We specialize in training professionals in the following areas:
• Using adventure as a therapeutic tool for change: bringing adventure into the office or classroom
• Motivational interviewing skills development
• Stages of change: a model for holistic change
• Crisis interventions for youth
• Developing positive relationships: the importance of therapeutic alliance
• Setting yourself up for success: a personal and/or organizational review
• Using adventure activities to open the door: tips, tricks and therapeutic games
The Workshop
This workshop uses a variety of tools to help you become a more effective professional. Our clinical & facilitation staff will teach a variety of skills (motivational interviewing, advanced communication and crisis intervention) and will combine these learning’s with advanced adventure facilitation training. You will learn how adventure activities (including low and high ropes courses) can be used to form metaphors and concrete experiential learning for difficult youth and learn how such activities can serve as a tool for positive change.
Who is This Workshop For?
This workshop is for anyone who works with challenging youth participants. Whether you are a student or a current professional, you’ll find that this workshop will increase your effectiveness with your youth population. This workshop is ideal for:
• Current or future Youth Workers
• Social Workers looking for Alternate Approaches
• New or Current Teachers
• Teachers in Special Education
• Group Home Staff
• Youth Facility Staff Teams
• Summer Camp Staff
• Youth Group Leaders
• AND MORE
What Else Will Be Covered?
• Tools and strategies for engaging challenging adolescents, especially in group work settings
• A review of current research into effective therapeutic approaches with youth at risk populations
• A discussion and review of the rationale for using experiential and adventure-based approaches with these groups and an overview of methods that can be used to integrate this approach within existing programs.
• An opportunity to participate in experiential activities framed to address therapeutic issues and to discuss how to integrate such approaches into work environments.
• Learn to use simple counseling approaches to avoid power struggles, help fractured groups come together and how to create a positive therapeutic alliance.
• Discussion of advanced adventure facilitation concepts.
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