Adult Youth Facilitator Training

• Coaching and Mentoring for Youth Leadership. The normal tendency for adult involvement in youth programs is to "parent" their activities. This module raises the awareness of the "parenting" paradigm and helps develop coaching and mentoring skills.

• Enabling Leadership Talent to Emerge. Normally only the brightest talents get immediate attention. This module teaches adults to use reflective skills and peer consulting as tools in assessing and nurturing latent talents of young leaders.

• Filling the Key Gaps (Church, Home School). Using gap analysis techniques, adults conduct a comprehensive assessment of youth group member circumstances and search for key missing elements in the formation of youth. This module is particularly important in determining optimal use of limited resources and in formulating youth ministry strategies.

• Keeping a Spiritual Focus as Corner Stone. Foundational concpets of spirituality and youth interests. Highlights the relevance of adult spiritual depth in mentoring and coaching youth leaders. Comprehensive use of the iSAS as a tool for self and for others.

• Managing Youth that Manage Youth. Techniques and skills practice to elicit participation in adult facilitated projects. Emphasis on activity design, planning, performance, and assessments. Three case studies discussed include a one day youth activity, a youth trip, and a three day retreat. Each participant is expected to desigh, and plan a series of notional activities.
• Developing a Sense of Community. Building a true community seldom happens naturally, yet an essential part of of spiritual formation relies on community life. Many individual, situational, contextual and relational ingredients are required to form community. This module helps understand the meaning of community and helps establish community forming strategies.