Daily Schedule

Your days are full at the Global Youth Village international summer camp.  You’ll be in a Dialogue and Peace Building  workshop  and a wide range of team building activities in the afternoon, and a variety of recreational fun later on our woodland campus.

While changing activities and moving from place to place, you’ll mix with others continuously throughout the day.  You’ll soon become fast friends with everyone at GYV.

Typical daily schedule 2012

• 8:15                      Breakfast
• 9:00-12:30         Morning Workshops
• 12:30-1:15           Lunch
• 1:15-2:00            Siesta Time
• 2:00-3:15            Afternoon Electives
• 3:15-3:45            Camp Store open
• 3:45- 5:00          Teamwork, Leadership and Community
• 5:00-6:30           Recreation time
• 6:45                     Dinner
• 8:00                     End of day gathering time
• 8:30-10:00         Evening programs

Workshops – Put knowledge into action!

Workshops meet every week day at our international summer camp.  The instructors are gifted trainers with dynamic teaching approaches to get everyone participating.  Our program also offers you the opportunity to get some valuable leadership training. Hearing everyone’s thoughts, building listening and assessment skills and developing techniques to convey your point of view and return to your own community with new abilities to promote change.

Summer 2012 offers:

• First Morning Workshop:  everyone takes Dialogue and Peace Building 
• Second Morning Workshop:  you choose either Crossing Cultures Through the Arts or Green Your World. 

GYV offers in-depth training.     Instructors show the interdependence of topics, draw on successful models of problem solving from around the world and help you see how one person can make a difference. 
Take all this new knowledge and create a plan of action to make a difference in your hometown!

Watch slides from recent workshops

Dialogue and Peace Building

Learn peace building skills and how to respond productively to conflict and prejudice. Understand conflict styles, learn mediation techniques, and how to create a better balance of power.  Explore non-violence movements, and how to constructively deal with anger. Develop listening and feedback skills and study facilitation techniques.

“I have accomplished the goal of being able to speak in a large group. I learned about dialogue and conflict resolution.

Now I can go back home and resolve conflicts whether they are personal, family, or community conflicts. I can start to make change.”

~ Philip Kane, Northern Ireland

Crossing Cultures through the Arts

The arts play an essential role in preserving and transmitting culture as well as commenting on the issues of the day.  Work with Artists-in-Residence  who have specific expertise in storytelling and music from around the world.  Build writing and interviewing skills. Create stories, video blogs and more using the peers at GYV as your youth voices.  Work with professional musicians and ethnomusicologists exploring different musical styles e.g. Middle East, American roots music, African influences in American music.

Green Your World

Explore the natural world and the complex issues facing our ecosystems. Learn how to be a friend to the environment through changing your every day habits to incorporate sustainable living practices. Discover the meanings behind concepts like eco-tourism, permaculture, fair trade, green building, organic agriculture and renewable energy.

Watch Video from workshops in the past:

Crossing Cultures through the Arts Instructor

Guide youths in an exploration of how the arts play a role in preserving culture and promoting social change. Development and deliver the curriculum in collaboration with additional guest artists from various disciplines (within the staff team or outside guests).   Applicants must have professional level teaching experience in either the theater arts or studio/graphic arts. Must also have proven collaborative ability.

Job Description: Plan & deliver the “Crossing Cultures through the Arts” workshop to youths, ages 14-18, approximately 2 hours a day, 4-5 days a week. The instructor teaches portions of the workshop and schedules the other art specialist in other disciplines to teach other components, with an eye to the overall theme of each session.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Professional level teaching experience in either studio arts or theater.
• Desire and ability to work with youth in an nontraditional educational setting (i.e. – residential, outdoors, experiential)
• Ability to work with a team and to encourage, by example, flexibility in its members.
• Ability to communicate clearly with participants, staff, and administrators.
• High energy, motivation, stamina, and patience. Able to provide a role model for the participants.
• Ability to adapt teaching style to individual needs
• Ability to create a harmonious group dynamic
• Proven ability to work with youths in an international or intercultural setting.
• Fluent in English
• Age 21 and over
• Desire and ability to work with youths in an non-traditional educational setting (i.e. – residential, outdoors, experiential)

Responsible to: Workshop Coordinator

Specific Responsibilities:

1. Plan, develop, and monitor the CCTA curriculum in collaboration with other “guest” arts staff and outside guests.  (Approximately 7 teaching days per session.)
2. Set up teaching space and maintain order and cleanliness throughout the summer.
3. Communicate with administrative and cabin staff as necessary, regarding an individual youth’s performance and/or special needs.
4. Teach occasional electives or special activities related to workshop subject matter or in another area of expertise during non-workshop times.
5. Clean and close down teaching area at the end of the summer, including inventory and storing of equipment and supplies.
6. Provide detailed report and evaluation of workshop, as actually delivered, with recommendations for next season.

Secondary Responsibilities:

1. Assist in the design and delivery of select evening programs or other special events, at least once a week.
2. Teach occasional afternoon activities or electives, or fullfill some other secondary programmatic role of interest.
3. Fulfill other support functions as outlined in the general job description, applicable to all staff (i.e. being part of a meal clean-up team once a day, helping set up and break down facility, etc.)

Essential Functions:

1. Ability to communicate effectively with workshop group, peers, and supervisors.
2. Cognitive ability to plan and conduct activities to achieve youth development objectives.
3. Ability to observe and assess participant behavior, enforce appropriate safety guidelines and emergency procedures, and provide guidance and discipline as needed.

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