TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Mark E. Taylor
"One 2 One" is the training course, which aims at developing youth worker’s competence in building and maintaining individual relationship with a young person in relevant contexts.
Objectives of the course:
- that participants would be able to identify contexts and situations, where individual relationship with young person needs to be built and developed.
- that participants would feel confident in their communication skills and capacities with young person individually.
- that participants would be aware of different approaches, techniques and methods of individual contact with a young person and be able to use them.
- that participants would become aware of his/her own style to be in the relationship with young person and will be conscious about it’s possibilities and limits
The group was composed of 18 participants from 13 countries.
The team was composed of me, Hazel Low and Monika Kazaite.
The methodology of One 2 One training course was based on:
- experiential learning
- practice oriented learning (skills building)
- active work with written material
- analysis of videos
At the end of the course participants:
- became aware of different types of professional relationship (coaching, mentoring, supervising etc.)
- understood different aims and objectives of One 2 One relationship with young person.
- left with great understanding what constitutes a good relationship with young person and how to build it.
- after the course participants were able to realise limits and opportunities One 2 One relationship might have.
Together with my trainer colleague I was responsible for preparation, implementation and evaluation of the training programme and learning process of participants.
I worked on this training for 5 days in TC and 2 days online contact with participants days as a full time trainer.