This is a two-day interactive course aiming to support the development of young people’s social and emotional core competencies in relation to their sexual health.
Youth Workers will gain the confidence and capacity to support the young people to develop key skills in how they think and feel about themselves and others and how they can deal with challenges and stresses of life. These skills are collectively known as the social and emotional competencies.
Through the B4u Decide, the skills explored include:
Relationship Management: the ability to establish and maintain friendships and romantic relationships. This involves learning skills to communicate effectively and confidently, resolving conflict constructively and resisting inappropriate pressures. The training aims to explore activities which will look at friendships and what values are important in friendships
Decision Making: the ability to make constructive choices about behaviours and social interactions based on personal, moral and ethical responsibility. It involves being able to identify problems and use problem solving techniques while considering the wellbeing of oneself and others. The training will also explore a range of ways of working with young people to help them make positive and healthy decisions for themselves. The 2 days will also aim to support you understand the role played by media and peer pressure.
Self- Awareness: the ability to recognise and identify emotions but also develop the skills and confidence to identify and explore their own traits and highlight their own strengths to articulate their opinions, likes and dislikes. Specifically, the training will support young people to gain skills in relation to saying ‘no’ and resisting pressure.
These skills are in line with the 7 personal and social development outcomes including, communications skills, confidence + agency, relationships, planning + problem solving, emotional intelligence, resilience + determination, creativity and imagination.
