Workshops – Put knowledge into action!
January 3, 2012
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
December 27, 2011
This year at our international summer camp, we are offering two sessions of in-depth Cultural Immersion programs for US and international youths, 14-18 years old.
Crossing Cultures Program
June 24-July 16
Hip Hop Dance Workshop
This option spans the 9-day Indonesian/US program and the 11-day Peace Building Program plus it includes 3 days of touring and service projects in Southwest Virginia. Become a true global citizen as you “travel” and make friends from Indonesia, the Near East, Europe and the U.S. Develop your leadership skills with our highly qualified instructors. Each session offers new activities and themes. Diving in more depth will result in a more profound experience and deeper skill development.
Community Involvement Program
July 19-August 4
Engage with Iraqi and other international youth for a dynamic 11-day Peace Building Program, including interactive workshops in dialogue, the arts and environmental action. Get leadership training and use your new skills during the program. Then enjoy 6 days focusing on Community Involvement through our summer service program with agencies in Southwest Virginia and Washington DC. Receive advocacy training, roll up your sleeves for some local service work, and meet with community leaders and organizations addressing issues of hunger, environmental justice, affordable housing, civic engagement, healthcare and criminal justice reform.
- Dates for U.S. and International youths: June 24-July 16 and July 19-August 4
- Dates for internationals: June 24-July 16 and July 17-August 4
- Age: 14-18 years old (rising 9th-12 grades)
- Tuition for 22-day program: (includes room & board): $2,600
- Tuition for 17-day program: $2,600
Internationals: see Application for tuition rates.
To apply for Crossing Cultures Programs – 22 and 17-day programs - APPLY NOW
A Peace Builder
July 11, 2011
Yahya from Indonesia and Joe from Minnesota
So, what does it mean to be a peace builder? Participants at Global Youth Village international summer camp engage in a dynamic Peace Building Workshop where they seek answers to this question. Three participants chose to discuss this issue in the following video:
What do you think it means to be a peace builder? Let us know by leaving a comment.
Lessons on Listening
February 11, 2011
Developing good listening skills is something that you will learn at the Global Youth Village. Participants will discuss this topic in detail in your peace building workshop, but for now, here are a few tips on how to be a good listener. Effective dialogue creates a good foundation for peace and good listening skills are a part of that!
A good listener:
- Makes appropriate eye contact
- Remains reasonably still
- Nods, smiles, responds
- Leans toward speaker
- Sits alertly, attentively
- Facial expressions reflect interest
- Does not check the time often
- Takes notes
- Verifies information, asks appropriate questions
- Considers speakers points seriously
