Training Summary:

This training is designed to help those working with youth and families to explore how they make meaning around their experiences. We will introduce the ideas of Double Listening and engaging around the Absent but Implicit. When working with system-involved youth we are often invited to focus on the behaviors of clients while missing out on the purposes that these reflect. We will pay attention to the values and intentions that behavior is grounded in and provide areas of inquiring designed to allow people to more fully describe these.

 

Class Objectives:

·         Participants will learn about the concept of the Absent but Implicit, or Action as Purpose in relation to working with youth.

·         Participants will learn about the practice of Double Listening which allows the helper to inquire about the purposes, values and intentions that client actions are grounded in.

·         Participants will explore and practice the use of questions that invite clients to more fully describe these.

Participants will:

How can participants utilize their new skills and knowledge after the training to reinforce their learning?

·         Participants will gain a better understanding of how to connect youth behavior to their values.

·         Participants will learn about the concept of ‘double listening’ in order to see beyond the behaviors that youth express.

·         Participants will understand the importance of positioning their knowledge as ‘de-centered but influential’ when engaging with youth about the behaviors they are demonstrating.