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Tools, techniques and models

Training methods are highly participatory and interactive, including drama, role-play, groupwork and facilitated large and small group discussions. Participants will be asked to share their own experiences and to learn from the experiences of others.

  • Working With Anger and Aggression -2-day course gives an opportunity to review your work with young people and explore new approaches to dealing with anger and aggression  
  • Young Women and Self-Esteem - a 2-day course exploring self-esteem and how it affects the lives of the young women we work with
  • Working with Gangs - a 2-day course exploring the costs and gains of gang membership in young people's lives.

Note

Some of the material used in Working With Anger and Aggression and Young Women and Self-Esteem may overlap. If you are considering booking on to both of these courses we would recommend that you contact us to discuss. We can be called during office hours on +44 (0) 20 7561 3700

 

Working With Anger and Aggression 

This 2-day course gives you an opportunity to review your work with young people and explore new approaches to dealing with anger and aggression.

aims

  • to share models and techniques for working with the expression and roots of anger in young people

course includes

  • exploring anger, its causes, expressions and roots
  • introduction to models for understanding how young people use anger as a mask and a defence
  • consideration of strategies to enable young people to break out of engrained patterns of behaviour and create more choice for themselves
  • models and techniques that you can directly integrate into your one-to-one and group work programmes with young people

Date: 10th & 11th March 2009 in London

           12th & 13th October 2009 in London          

Price: £200.00 per participant

 

Young Women and Self-Esteem 

This 2-day course gives you an opportunity to review your work with young women and explore new approaches. Although the focus of this course is on young women, the tools and techniques can be successfully applied to work with young men.

aims

  • to share models and techniques for working with the expression and roots of low self-esteem in young women 

course includes

  • examining the underlying causes of low self-esteem
  • introduction to models for understanding persistent patterns of thinking which result in young women experiencing life as difficult and frightening
  • consideration of different types of behaviour which could be considered as manipulative, resistant or aggressive and ways of working with them.
  • models and techniques that you can directly integrate into your one-to-one and group work programmes with young women

Dates: 12th & 13th May 2009

Price:   £200.00 per participant

 

Working with Gangs

Working with Gangs presents challenges for professionals who work with young people. Leap Confronting Conflict can help you and your staff work more effectively with gangs. This two-day course is based on our on-going research with young "gang" members and adult workers. For more information about Leap Confronting Conflict's Gangs and Territorialism project please follow this link or call us on + 44 (0) 20 7561 3700

aims

  • To develop your ability to work creatively and constructively with young people affected by gangs and territorialism.
     

training Includes

  • What is a gang? Why are young people in gangs? Exploration of key concepts and issues around gangs and territorialism in the UK.
  • Putting it into practice - interactive strategies and techniques which can be used with young people to explore issues such as safety and danger, enemies, space and territorialism, status and power, identity and reputation and revenge. This part of the course will be participative and will give the opportunity to experience the techniques.
  • Managing challenging behaviour in group work: ground rules, coaching and identifying support needs.

Dates: 10th & 11th February 2009 in London

             17th & 18th March 2009 in Leeds

             2nd & 3rd June 2009 in London

Price:  £230.00 per participant



 

For more information and to reserve places on these courses please use our booking form

 

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