How to Talk to Porcupines

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Your Competency Focus Area

Communications

Youth workers often encounter prickly personalities (porcupines) in their work with youth. Effectively redirecting youth can help both of you cross communication divides and learning how to break down communication barriers will help you better engage with the young people you serve.
Explore principles of effective communication strategies including active listening, questioning, body language and non-verbal skills to positively engage with porcupines.
Come ready to learn, laugh, and engage! You’ll leave with a new appreciation for porcupines.

Your Learning Objectives

Learn how to identify porcupines
Broaden your communication know-how to skillfully handle prickly people and situations
Implement your own action plan for de-escalating and redirecting porcupines

Your Course Details

Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Allegra (Allie) Birdseye-Hannula, M.S. Teaching, is a lifelong learner, youth worker, author, learning and development specialist, and public speaker by trade. She is passionate about delivering impactful communication and de-escalation strategies to help youth workers address the needs of prickly youth. Allie began her career as a youth worker and has an extensive background in youth program leadership and training development. She has continued to build her expertise through more than 10 years of communication coaching, mentoring, and program development for organizations across Minnesota. In her free time, Allie enjoys reading, sketching in a park, leading fitness classes, socializing, and sipping on a good cup of coffee or tea.

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Your Skill-Building Objectives

Communication

Listening and speaking to deeply connect

Relationship Building

Building trust through caring relationships

Conflict Resolution

Turning conflict into growth opportunities

What YIPA members are saying

Allie was a great presenter. The stories she wove into the training helped to keep my attention, and I also appreciated the reflection guide included to take notes on and refer back to later.

Loved so many specifics and the easy to remember items like ARISE.

I would love to see this be a required training for more youth workers. Brilliantly put together and presented.

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How to Talk to Porcupines

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