Youth Effectiveness Course
How can the Youth Effectiveness course benefit learners?
Youth Effectiveness teaches learners a comprehensive set of skills as well as a framework for knowing how and when to use these skills to establish open, honest, and healthy relationships at school, in public, and at home.
Adolescence can be a tricky time; teenagers are struggling to find out who they are, to succeed in school, to find out what will give them feelings of personal achievement, and high self-esteem. They’re trying to make friends, to fit in, and to get along with their parents and teachers.
The Youth Effectiveness course skill set helps them develop themselves socially and emotionally by offering them both basic personal development skills as well as relationship skills that they can use in all areas of their lives and for a lifetime.
Learners will learn how to:
– Become aware of their essential needs
– Talk about their needs, concerns, and problems without blaming others.
– Make and keep friends.
– Relate to people who are different from them.
– Resolve conflicts with friends, family, and others instead of arguing and fighting.
– Develop an action plan for meeting their important goals.
The advantages of effective youth communication:
– A better understanding of themselves and others.
– Meet their own needs and goals and overcome fears.
– Know how to confront bullies and stand up for others who are being bullied.
– Less stress and tension in their lives both at home and at school.
– Maintain healthy relationships with friends, teachers, and parents.
How does the Youth Effectiveness course work?
Youth Effectiveness is 18 hours in total and led by a certified Gordon Training International Instructor. The schedule will depend on the individual instructor and learners’ time.
The sessions are based on the philosophy of learning by doing, and include:
– Creative activities
– Games
– Skill book excersises
– Role playing
Programme materials include:
– Y.E.T. workbook
– Certificate of completion
– Dr. Thomas Gordon’s credo for relationships
What’s been said…
This course has given me a much needed self-awareness and has helped me to better understand the people I care about most.
The skills taught are practical and highly effective . I’ve seen a real improvement in my life and my abilities to deal with situations, people and my own self.
Mature, kind, wise and accommodating.
She is a very good and helpful instructor and understands you and is patient with you.
Very well prepared and informed.
I look forward to implementing what I have learnt.
It was one of the best experiences in my life and I have learned so much.
Vee explains all parts with examples that mean something.
Vee is real, relatable and gives relevant examples.
Vee was caring, practical and gave good feedback. Knowledgeable and practical – killer combo!
Very good, understands the course material, always willing to listen to feedback and re-explain things. Always available between classes.
A brief background:
The Youth Effectiveness (Y.E.T.) course was created by award-winning psychologist and three-time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Dr Thomas Gordon in the early 1970’s.
Between 1978 and 1998, over 42,000 youth participated in Y.E.T. in the United States and an additional 19,000 took the course in other countries including Sweden, Finland, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Hungary, South Africa, The Netherlands, and Madagascar. Finland is the place where Y.E.T. has experienced by far more success than anywhere else in the world.
The programme offers learners the essential communication and conflict resolution skills they need to have high quality relationships with their friends, parents, and teachers so there will be less conflict and more peaceful conflict resolutions.
