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2010 Confronting Concerns

1. OVERVIEW: CONNECTING NYC YOUTH | 2. HOW TO PLAN A WORKSHOP | 3. 2010 CONFERENCE

2010 Network for peace Youth Dialogue conference

1. OVERVIEW | WORKSHOP REPORTS | PHOTO GALLERY | PRINT-OUTS

Workshop Report

Network for Peace through Dialogue
"Talking with Teens: Dialogue in Youth Programs"

Given that so many people who coordinate youth programs will be at the same place at the same time, we’re offering a special interactive workshop for youth coordinators to share experiences and best practices. The workshop will be an opportunity to consider challenges specific to your work with others who are in similar situations. We will define the topics we address together using a dialogic approach. Participants may choose to take up issues from their work (through large and small group dialogue), or take the time to explore the practice of dialogue itself (e.g., generating powerful openings, an overview of dialogue methods, distinguishing mediation and dialogue).

Report

This session was designed to be for those who work with youth and want to consider how to used dialogue in the work.

Laurence Berg, Board member of Network for Peace through Dialogue facilitated the workshop. Initially he asked the 10 people who gathered for this afternoon session what their concerns were in working with youth. The following ideas emerged:

How do I gain credibility / legitimation?
How do I sustain engagement?
How do I reach the right audience and not preach to the choir?

The people gathered represented a variety of groups with different purposes. One group was connected with the Community Concerns of the NYPD.

Advice to them included:
Go where the kids are-parks, malls
Include the youth in planning; make them a stakeholder
Know youth language
Listen to the young people; don’t jump to conclusions.
Seek opportunities to make connections.
Make it about them - focus on the person before the issue.

Another group has a mission of warning high schoolers about the downsides of military recruitment. These young women belong to the group for only 2 years. Year 1 as a worker and year 2 as a trainer. They go to schools and youth groups with presentations as strong but not as well funded as the recruiters. One of their problems is that some of the students don’t want to listen to them.

In the dialogue several points became apparent:

• Be honest and personal about your reasons for bringing this issue to them.
• Listened to the students’ concerns first, focus on the person before the issue. Some of the students may be from military families and deep down they want to follow that path. Or they might believe that it is their obligation to fight to sustain the freedoms that their country preserves. That is a belief for them and beliefs can’t be changed. That is ok.
• Watch out for trigger words like “military recruitment” and words that have value judgments attached. Often these words set a whole series of thoughts and feelings in motion. Then the audience can’t hear another word.

The group left with some new thoughts, with shared concerns, and with a couple of strategies that will make their work more effective.

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Workshop Reports

• Human Rights Activist Project, Global Kids
  "Moving Beyond Profiling: Youth Using Dialogue to Address Police Misconduct"
  
• Effective Alternative in Reconciliation Services (EARS)
  "EARS Listens!: How Young People Can Understand, and Be Understood"
• The Osborne Association's Youth Advisory Board
  "Achieving the Promise: Children of Incarcerated Parents"
• Mott Hall High School
  "Diversity IN the School"
• Advocates for College Education (ACE)
  "College Access and Leadership"
• Network for Peace through Dialogue Leadership Institute
  "Teachers and Teens: Understand What They Mean"
• Network for Peace through Dialogue
  "Talking with Teens: Dialogue in Youth Programs"
• Network for Peace through Dialogue
  "Deepening Dialogue: Ways to Address Difficult Subjects in Your Community"

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1. OVERVIEW: CONNECTING NYC YOUTH
2. HOW TO PLAN A WORKSHOP
3. WORKSHOPS IN ACTION: 2010 CONFERENCE: Human Rights Activist Project, Global Kids | Effective Alternative in Reconciliation Services (EARS) | The Osborne Association's Youth Advisory Board | Mott Hall High School | Advocates for College Education (ACE) | Network for Peace through Dialogue Leadership Institute | Network for Peace through Dialogue #1 | Network for Peace through Dialogue #2
WORKSHOP EXTRAS: PHOTOS | PRINT-OUTS

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