Coaching Youth Toward Greater Self-efficacy

On-Demand Webinar
Recorded on Thursday, June 1, 2023
1 hour training
FREE for YIPA members
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Your Training Description

Social-emotional skills are vital for positive youth development and well-being because they are essential for connecting with others. Use life-coaching as a means of higher engagement with youth and as a tool to activate and develop their critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities. You will explore the science of questions as a framework for engaging young people. This training focuses on the practice and process of using a coaching methodology to effectively cultivate critical thinking and problem solving.

Your Learning Objectives

Understand the contributing factors that lead to higher youth engagement
Explore effective ways to navigate interpersonal interactions and better respond to perceptions and needs of young people
Learn about coaching methodology and gain tools to develop skill in guiding and influencing through questions
Learn how coaching youth toward greater self-efficacy directly impacts their social-emotional development

Your Trainer

Jack Witt has worked in the people-development business for 25 years. Most of that time he has been training and advising leaders inside non-profit organizations. He focuses on helping individuals identify and move past personal barriers to growth and forward movement. Jack specializes in social-emotional development and lives by a personal mission to help people live better together. He consults and trains in both non-profit and private sector corporations on social-emotional wellness, conflict resolution, and interpersonal workplace relationships.

Through his role in a foster care and clinical counseling agency in California, Jack created and directs social-emotional intervention programs for at-risk youth. Elevate Youth Solutions programs are impacting the lives of thousands of children in elementary, middle, and high school throughout northern California. He has a master’s degree in Strategic Leadership and is an International Coaching Federation and Institute of Social-Emotional Intelligence certified practitioner and coach. Jack is also the author of Trash Talk – How to Upgrade your Self-Awareness and Unclutter your Relationships.

Your Competency Focus Area

Each of YIPA’s trainings are designed around a broad framework of eight youth work competencies. The competency focus of this training is: COMMUNICATIONS.

Gain communication flexibility which allows you to develop healthy, productive work relationships, engage in collaborative problem solving with youth, and improve individual and group facilitation.

This training will count as 1 CE hour for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. You are encouraged to print or save this training information as a PDF for your records.