Course 1
Young People’s Participation — The Facilitators Project
This highly engaging and innovative 6-module online course provides practical and conceptual tools to adults who work with children. The course explores best-practice methods to support transformation towards meaningful involvement of young people. It also explores the social, legal and conceptual significance of young people’s participation from the perspectives of social and emotional health and wellbeing, culture, law, social justice and young people’s engagement with environments and peers.
Participants will learn the practical use of futures foresight tools for transformative intergenerational collaborations with young people. We explore how real challenges that young people and those who work with young people face can be the starting point for foresight transformation. This PD training will benefit organisation leaders, educators, health workers, youth and social workers, carers, out-of-home carers and those working with young people in community and cultural bodies.
Course features:
- One year full access to the online learning platform
- 8 Live Coaching Sessions (2 hours each)
- Resources to build your own implementation roadmap and portfolio
- Certificate of completion
- Ongoing engagement with a professional peer community supporting each other and sharing ideas in implementing best-practice approaches and methods for allies and facilitators of meaningful young people’s participation/intergenerational collaboration
- Course convenor support in building your own roadmap and portfolio as a participation facilitator
Testimonials
Melanie Robinson
High School Wellbeing Coordinator
Western Australia
Claire Fortune
Visible Wellbeing in Schools Consultant, Lea Waters, Australia
Adam Sharpe
UNICEF, Innocenti, Youth Participation Specialist, Futurist
What a game-changer. The Young People's Participation Course provides in-depth and nuanced understanding of the historical and current context of young people’s participation in decision-making. With a wealth of research behind it, it also gives clear, fun and practical guidance on how we can step into an ever more inclusive future that values and embraces genuine authentic participation from young people. As a High School Student Wellbeing Officer, the course has given me the confidence to step boldly into planning programmes for young people with young people. Utilising the skills and strategies I learned in the course, our school community are now together co-creating our school environment with authenticity and trust as the basis of our relationships. Thank you, Zazie and the Interactions Institute.
Melanie Robinson
Wellbeing Coordinator
Thought provoking and transformative - a must do for anyone working with youth.
The course provides a thorough, contextual understanding of the landscape impacting genuine youth participation and builds on this with a host of practical strategies which can be tailored to suit all ages and abilities.
I can see how these strategies will help many organizations go beyond tokenistic youth involvement and open conversations to garner effective and collaborative youth participation, ensuring youth have an active voice in the future the are set to inherit.
Claire Fortune
COO Visible Wellbeing