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Youth Engagement Facilitation Workshop - Minneapolis

Friday, August 19, 2011 from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM (CT)

Minneapolis, MN

Youth Engagement Facilitation Workshop - Minneapolis

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Early Bird   more info Ended $170.00 $10.34
Registration Ended $200.00 $11.99
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This hands-on workshop covers the key elements of child and youth engagement in the promotion of active transportation. Developed through collaborative work with elementary and secondary student leaders over the past decade, the Adult Facilitator Workshop can save you months in the development and implementation of student engagement strategies. 

Demonstrations and examples will offer skills and tools to recruit, train and support student-led change. Topics include: recruitment, motivation, collaboration, skill-building, achieving goals & recognition

The Adult Facilitator Workshop is designed for professionals in the fields of SRTS, travel behaviour change, road safety, health promotion, environmental education and community development.

Develop skills to:

  • recruit and motivate student leaders
  • collaborate to broaden your outreach
  • build skills of individuals and school team
  • achieve individual and group goals

Registration is limited to 25 participants - please complete a pre-workshop questionnaire after registering. Cost is $200 ($170 if registered by July 15th) and includes a copy of Emancipatory practices: Adult/Youth engagement for social and ecological justice (Chapter 10: Learning without Teaching: Youth-Led Programs to Reduce Car-Trips to School by Arthur Orsini) https://www.sensepublishers.com/files/9789460911538PR.pdf

Facilitator: Arthur Orsini, Youth Engagement Facilitator - Urbanthinkers in partnership with Stantec Consulting Ltd.

Arthur has been developing innovative and effective child, youth and student engagement projects since 1991. His work helps local authorities support students become local champions for travel behaviour change. His secondary school program (created while working for BEST), Off Ramp, received an OECD award for Sustainable Transport: Education and Youth in 2000. Based in Vancouver, Arthur has worked and presented across Canada, and in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He has never owned a car.

Note: If cancelled due to low registration, all fees paid will be refunded.