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New! You, Center: Entrepreneurship and Personal Development

You, Center offers two tracks:

Classes in the Foundations Track focus on real-life skills for people interested in creating their own business, adding a new income source, or in building skills to compete in a new online workforce.

Classes in the Explorations Track explore the socio-political implications of a certain sector with a global focus. Taught by nationally recognized experts.

Facilitation Training: Design Meaningful Gatherings - Make Change

Dates: October 3-17, 2020 (Saturdays and Tuesdays)

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Fee: $187.00

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Class meets Tuesdays evenings (6pm-8:30pm Eastern Time) and Saturday mornings (10am-1pm Eastern Time).

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Facilitation Training

Foundations Track

About Facilitation Training course

Design Meaningful Gatherings: Make Change

In this course, you will learn to set the tone of a meeting, workshop, or event. You will practice the art of asking "good questions" and how they are the key to reflection and growth, as well as gain technical expertise on how to create a community where people feel welcome, heard, and connected. All of the skills learned in this class will be transferable to both digital and in-person facilitation.

We will:

– Learn to focus on goals in a session or meeting, tune into where the group is going, how much to leave yourself out and when to bring yourself into the discussion.

– Discover why the icebreaker matters and how to move beyond the resistance of participants and into cracking your session wide open.

– Practice thinking of and asking meaningful questions. Throughout our practice, we will review the different kinds of questions facilitators use and how to recognize the key to a productive and powerful conversation.

– Overcome our fear of silence and learn how to read what your participants are saying when they aren’t saying anything.

We will learn how conflict can be turned into meaningful growth for both individuals as well as the entire group.

No matter your career path or professional role, boosting your facilitation skills help you build a confident presence in front of a group of people and ultimately make you a more empathetic and authentic leader.

This class is perfect for anyone from HR professionals, college grads, entrepreneurs, educators, trainers, to anyone who holds meetings, party planners, hosts, and C- suite professionals. Everyone who participates will practice facilitating, receive feedback, and gain practical tools to use in your everyday and professional life.

Keep reading for more information or click here to sign up.

October Schedule:

(Times below listed in Eastern Time.)

Class meets online
October 3–17, 2020
Tuesdays and Saturdays 6–8:30pm

This class is in the Foundations Track. Classes in the Foundations Track focus on real-life skills for people interested in creating their own business, adding a new income source, or in building skills to compete in a new online workforce.

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“Facilitation is the art of facilitating a deeper understanding, fresh thinking, and behavioral transformation.”
Rick Thomas

About your Instructor

Melissa Shaw

Melissa Shaw is a facilitator who offers a unique consultancy based in the arts, social justice, diversity and inclusion, and social emotional learning. She has facilitated in universities, schools, summer camps, detention centers, yeshivas, churches, corporate offices, and long-term temporary housing centers. She has facilitated workshops for high school students, security guards, chaplains, non-profit managers, video game designers, Buddhist monks, school principals, older adults, NGO leaders, and the NYPD. She is a teaching artist and creative coach for various community-based organizations, including Community Word Project and the Lulu and Leo Fund. Melissa also facilitates for a variety of the Anti-Defamation League's programs, including its A World of Difference Institute, Words to Action, Echoes and Reflections and Respect for All initiatives. She was on faculty for Drew University's 2018 Institute On Religion and Conflict Transformation where she helped to foster dialogue among religious and lay leaders from around the world. She is the Arts and Communication Advisor for the Muslim Jewish Solidarity Commitee. Last summer, Melissa was part of the prestigious Nahum Goldmann Fellowship cohort. She is an associate artist with Falconworks Artist Group. Melissa holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.

Class ID: SF20YC03Oct

Prepare for Success: Getting the Job

Dates: October 15–25, 2020

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Fee: $187.00

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Thursday 10/15 6pm-9pm, Tuesday 10/20 6pm-9pm, Thursday 10/22, Sunday 10/25 Morning and afternoon: practice interviews and feedback.

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You, Center

Prepare for Success: Getting the Job

Foundations Track

About Prepare for Success

Prepare for Success: Getting the Job is a new class designed to support those transitioning to a new field or students entering the workforce for the first time. With an emphasis on feedback from your teachers, students will practice interviewing, writing cover letters, and refining your resume. Additionally, the class will work on relaxation techniques to help deal with the stress of job searching and interviews.

Keep reading for more information or click here to sign up.

September Schedule:

(Times below listed in Eastern Time.)

Class meets online
Tuesday, September 22: 6pm–9pm
Thursday, September 24: 6pm–9pm
Sunday, September 27: 9:30am–12:30pm
Sunday, October 4: Morning and afternoon: practice interviews and feedback

October Schedule:

(Times below listed in Eastern Time.)

Class meets online
Thursday, October 15: 6pm–9pm
Tuesday, October 20: 6pm–9pm
Thursday, October 22: 5pm–9pm
Sunday, October 25: Morning and afternoon: practice interviews and feedback

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About your Instructors

Alicia Giordano

Alicia Giordano received her MA in Applied Educational Psychology Reading Specialist at Columbia University as well as a Master’s degree in Educational Theatre from NYU. Alicia is a registered yoga teacher (RYT-200) with over 20 years of personal practice.

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Andrea Seiger, author of 111 Places in Washington, DC You Must Not Miss, is an educator and world traveler. Andrea runs her own travel guide business and partners with many others in the DC area.

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