Workshops

A variety of workshops are avaliable for delivery in different community settings. Workshop offered are similar to those offered to schools. Workshop topics cover a wide range of global issues and always deepen understanding of youth development.. If you or your organisation would like to find out more, please contact us by email or phone on +64 4 496 9592.

 

Workshops are fun, interactive, useful, and provide youth workers with a range of innovative classroom activities.  Participants trial some of the activities in order to enhance understanding of the issues, as well as what it feels like to be on the side of 'learner'. The main themes of the workshops we are currently running are explained below. If you are interested in having us run a workshop on a Global Education-related theme, please contact us.

 

Youth Work with a Global Perspective

We work with participants to develop an understanding of how to integrate a stronger global perspective within youth work practice. Our workshops link global issues with particular topics. These topics include refugees in Aotearoa NZ and globally, exploring fair and free trade, enquiring into the effects of globalisation and what it means to be a global citizen.

 What do we offer?

  • A skilled facilitator
  • Workshops of 1 to 2 hours
  • A resource folder (for up to 30 participants)
  • A selection of relevant information and resources (over 30 participants).

Topics

 

Global citizenship

How do we as citizens influence the processes
of globalisation and our local scene? We all
have rights and obligations and this workshop
has a closer look at these. We also run
workshops on globalisation issues.

                       

Global education

This workshop examines how a global
education perspective can enhance youth workpractice.

Media

Our lives are saturated with the media –
television, radio, newspapers and the internet.
This workshop explores the impact of global
media on young people and provides youth workers
with practical ways to apply media literacy in
their work.

 

Poverty

The poverty workshop looks at the very real
causes and solutions of relative and absolute
poverty all over the world and provides ideas
about how this topic can be comprehensively
taught within youth work practice.

Resistance movements

This workshop explores concepts such as
human rights, power and organisation, and
looks at how students can understand the
means by which individuals and communities
seek to change their situations. Based on the
CD Rom Resistance.

Sustainable development

The word sustainable is very trendy, but what
does it really mean? This workshop takes a
more holistic approach to this topic which
teachers will find challenging and very relevant.
It provides youth workers with practical activities to
engage young people in learning about sustainability.

Urbanisation

This workshop brings youth workers up-to-date with
the latest statistics, issues and case studies
that concern the rapid urbanisation of the
world. Useful maps, power points and activities
accompany this workshop.

Refugees

Why do people become refugees and who
decides what happens to them? This workshop
provides ideas for teaching about refugees
from a global and Aotearoa NZ perspective.