LIBERATION EDUCATION

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Our Liberation Education Training is designed to:

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• Deepen participants' analysis of racism and colonialism

• Challenge participants' to examine identity, power, and media

• Explore the lie of racism and the seeds of colonialism

• Construct new anti-racist and decolonizing principles for personal lives and learning spaces

trauma-informed

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Our Trauma-Informed Training is designed to:

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• Increase participants' knowledge and understanding of trauma and how it manifests in  the human body

• Increase participants' ability to create trauma-informed spaces for themselves and their peers

• Increases participants' knowledge of self-care, secondary trauma, and burnout

• Create a self-care plan that can be implemented immediately

RESTORATIVE PRACTICES

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Our Restorative Practice Training is designed to:

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• Create proactive and responsive strategies for strengthening relationships

• Lessen group conflict and restore communication

• Practice affective statements, impromptu dialogue, setting group norms, and the use of circles

​This training is certified by the International Institute of Restorative Practices

ethos

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Our Ethos Training is designed to:

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• Increase participants' tools for working with youth in a varied cultural, political, and historical context to bring about youth leadership and social change

• Take a deep dive into the personal ethos and how it impacts what is taught, how it is taught, and why it is taught 


• Enhance participants' understanding of adolescent development/youth voice, core values, and non-traditional educational methodologies 


• Build an understanding of youth engagement and retention

art infusion

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Our Art Infusion Training is designed to:

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• Explore the power of the arts to heal, transform, build, educate, and organize

•  Infuse six art modalities (dance, drama, writing, singing, music & visual arts)

• Understand the role that creativity plays in social development and positive growth

• Learn ways to apply art experiences for youth & community members

community building

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Our Community Building Training is designed to:

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• Explore participants' sense of "I am" while moving towards cultivating inclusive relationships with the community into a sense of "we are"

• Practice asset mapping, accountability, creating safe/courageous spaces

• Engage future participants & partners

• Introduce participants' to family engagement strategies & practices