
approaches & trainings
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
99% of participants said the training was informative and applicable both for their personal lives and learning spaces.
A training experience that guides youth and youth practitioners through 6 educational humanistic approaches for liberation.
All trainings are available in-person and online.

“Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it."
- Paulo Freire
LIBERATION EDUCATION
Our Liberation Education Training is designed to:
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Deepen participants' analysis of racism and colonialism
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Challenge participants' to examine identity, power, and media
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Explore the lie of racism and the seeds of colonialism
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Construct new anti-racist and decolonizing principles for personal lives and learning spaces
trauma-informed
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
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Increase participants' ability to create trauma-informed spaces for themselves and their peers
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Increases participants' knowledge of self-care, secondary trauma, and burnout
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Create a self-care plan that can be implemented immediately

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
- Maya Angelou

“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed.”
- Paulo Freire
RESTORATIVE PRACTICES
Our Restorative Practice Training is designed to:
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Create proactive and responsive strategies for strengthening relationships
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Lessen group conflict and restore communication
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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
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
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Take a deep dive into the personal ethos and how it impacts what is taught, how it is taught, and why it is taught
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Enhance participants' understanding of adolescent development/youth voice, core values, and non-traditional educational methodologies
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Build an understanding of youth engagement and retention

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.”
- President Barack Obama
art infusion
Our Art Infusion Training is designed to:
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Explore the power of the arts to heal, transform, build, educate, and organize
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Infuse six art modalities (dance, drama, writing, singing, music & visual arts)
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Understand the role that creativity plays in social development and positive growth
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Learn ways to apply art experiences for youth & community members
community building
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"
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Practice asset mapping, accountability, creating safe/courageous spaces
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Engage future participants & partners
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Introduce participants' to family engagement strategies & practices

"I am what I am because of who we all are."
- Ubuntu
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