“Providing a space where people can feel seen especially from such a young age
is transformational. It’s impactful and it’s life changing.”
JOIN EMPOWER PUBERTY
Do you work with youth and wish to support your groups with meaningful and fun workshops around growing up?
Do you wish to foster your group’s mental health, a positive body image, social emotional skills and healthy self-esteem?
Are you looking to build your skills as a facilitator holding puberty-themed conversations, games and creative activities with young people and answer their tricky questions about puberty confidently?
You can help a young person be better prepared for their future, what to expect during puberty and share tools for life with young people!
“AS A YOUTH LEADER YOU ARE CENTRE STAGE TO PROVIDE POSITIVE TOOLS ABOUT GROWING UP AND INSPIRE YOUNG PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY!”
WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?
Youth workers, social workers, youth leaders, teachers, forest school leaders, health care professionals, creative club leaders, scout leaders, dance class leaders and everyone else working with children and youth 8-17.
Our approach
Facilitation Toolkit Building
Learn our tried and tested workshop approach with a adaptable structure to deliver impactful workhops to children and young people in your settings.
You’ll learn to incorporate fun games, engaging discussions, arts & crafts and other relational tools into your existing work and tailor it to your setting, taking into consideration various needs and backgrounds.
Practice
Gain confidence and self belief or bring your facilitation to the next level by putting new skills into gentle practice.
In this training you’ll strengthen and build on what you bring as a person and professional. We are giving you opportunities througout the training to experiment, strengthen and consolidate your knowledge or methods of your choice.
Personal Growth
Reflect topics in order to pass on information in unbiased, inclusive and balanced ways.
Many of us haven’t had a positive introductionto puberty and our changing bodies- often we take negative attitudes into our adult lifes. We practice self reflection and group reflection to effectively offer balanced answers to young people.
Peer Support
Explore hot topics of puberty alongside other youth practitioners and form new connections in a supported setting.
We practice peer support through Listening Partnerships, Pod Wisdom, group exploration and other relational methods.
Many of people who trained with us form friendships or work relationships and become part of our facilitation team.
Testimonials
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE
TRAINING
4 days of in-depth training with 28 hours of teaching practical methods, creative tools, factual knowledge, facilitation practice
Access to a Signal group with your training cohort
RESOURCES
Big Sis EMPOWER PUBERTY training manual
Access to ‘Preparing Girls For Puberty’ Webinar (90mins)
Access to shared Big Sis resource folder
Reflective Questions Toolkit
Co-Facilitation Toolkit
Reading List, Listening List and Watch List for topics covered in the training to develop your practice
Big Sis session plan template and structures
Signposting to partner organisation’s resources
POST TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AND SUPPORT:
Monthly Newsletter with Big Sis facilitation opportunities
Follow up support to set up your own groups or work with us
Discounted price on 1-day trainings to nourish the youth facilitation community (these are happening bi-monthly with a theme decided by the Big Sis Facilitators Community, example topics: Body image and online or creative facilitation).
DATES
This training is held in-person over 3 weekends on 4 days in an accessible central Plymouth location.
Day 1 : Puberty Changes & Menstrual Cycles
16th November 2024, 10-5
Day 2 : Body Image & Self Esteem
23rd November 2024, 10-5
Day 3: Relationships, Boundaries & Consent
24th November 2024, 10-5
Day 4: Facilitation Practice & Bringing It All Together
30th November 2024, 10-5
BY THE END OF THE TRAINING
YOU WILL HAVE
BUILT CONFIDENCE in talking about tricky topics and practised answering young people’s questions.
A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING of the content topics.
LEARNED AND PUT INTO PRACTICE elements of our group facilitation approach with young people and adapt them for different settings.
LEARNED SKILLS to effectively lead relational puberty workshops using games, art & crafts and creativity.
CONNECTED WITH other like minded facilitators that are passionate to support young people.
SLIDING SCALE INVESTMENT
GIVER: £260
BOOSTER: £360
ADVOCATE: £450
SOCIAL JUSTICE OFFER: £0-£50*
We care about bringing this work into more communities and offer 2 social justice spaces for youth practitioners who either:
Work with youth in disadvantaged communities
OR
Work with youth in disadvantaged communities and experience disadvantages themselves.
Please get in touch with an informal Email to hello@big-sis.co telling us why you need this space.
*Social justice spaces are financed by the spaces we sell for this training. E.g: If we sell all our tickets, we can offer 2x social justice spaces for free, if we sell less your maximum investment is £50.
