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While the Inspire! Youth Series software is intuitive, easy to use, and can support learning in a variety of ways, face-to-face training provides the greatest opportunity for discovery and retention.

To ensure that you have the greatest opportunity for success, LearningChange offers unique and powerful training programs that incorporate activities from the Inspire! Youth Series, and teach you and your staff how to use them to facilitate the teambuilding process.

Building Inspired! Teams and Facilitating the Process

Facilitators: Scott Winter, Mike Martin

Designed for educators, youth leaders, and program directors, this three-part training program introduces participants to in-the-moment teaching strategies and techniques, particularly emphasizing how to plan and lead experiential learning activities and simulations. Participants learn effective inquiry and reflection methods for drawing out real-world lessons from the playful and challenging experiences.

Part I: Introduction to Facilitation & Learning

Starting with foundations of facilitation, Introduction to Facilitation presents the four major approaches to facilitation, and how to set up, lead, and process structured experiences using the LearningChange Discover – Connect – Create Model.

Part II: Next Level Facilitation

Building on foundations presented in Part I, this course explores dialogic learning and the use of experiential methods to help students take ownership and responsibility for their own learning, discoveries, and behavior. Participants practice planning, developing, and leading experiential activities. Most importantly, participants will learn to debrief and guide conversation and insight to the transference stage, where real-world meaning is attached and kids take action. Participants will also learn to assess the level of engagement in a curriculum or program.

Part III: Advanced Facilitation & Learning Strategies

This section focuses on creating structured experiences specifically designed for the environment in which they will be applied. Participants will explore how to integrate experiential methods into their youth program areas, create a reasonable adoption timeline and plan, and set observable and measurable goals to help stay on track. The emphases of this section are on what participants will walk away with, how they can be supported and support one another in the future, and how practice is put into action.