CERTIFICATE COURSE

DIPLOMA COURSE

  BLOCK 1   Open workshop

  Coaches and mentors

• What is youth development?
• Introduction to activity based learning (ABL)
• Introduction to leadership

•  Youth development
• Participatory learning
• Coach, mentor and discipler

BLOCK 2  Through their eyes

  Team builders

• Reflective practice
• Youth development (Circle of Courage model)
• Understanding your community
• Pacific youth issues
• ABL: sequencing and group management skills
• Risk management

• Strengths finder
• Response Ability Pathways
• Ethics and values in team practice
• Building a team around you
• Coaching and debriefing skills

  BLOCK 3  The inward journey

  Partnerships for change

• Code of ethics
• Counselling skills
• Personal development
• Mentoring skills
• Communication skills

• Community organising
• Theories of helping
• Communicating your vision
• Development practice and theory
• Self care and balanced life

  BLOCK 3   Agents of change

  Pacific voices

• Leadership –understanding your own style
• Project development
• Pacific youth development in global context
• First Aid

• Youth and community issues –global and Pacific perspectives
• Managing resources
• Balanced life
• Project planning and evaluation