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: