The Third Space

Lizzy & Nat discuss the meaning of "buy-in" in youth programming and how group leaders can increase engagement and participation.

Lizzy shares her experience running summer programming for high school youth and Nat & Lizzy discuss the particular challenges and joys of youth programming during the summer season.

Lizzy and Nat welcome Jess Levine (she/her) to share best practices and considerations when working with youth participants with various social abilities.

Our very first guest, William Collier (he/him), joins Lizzy & Nat to talk about setting boundaries with young folks - especially as a new youth development professional.

Lizzy shares one of her favorite tools in thinking through expectation-setting with young people.

Social Discipline Window resource

In this shorter ep, Lizzy and Nat discuss what has changed for them in the last 4 years and name their hopes for the new season

How do we engage parents and adult family members in our work with youth? In this work, sometimes it can be hard to know how to engage with parents to support our work with their children. In this episode we explore the strengths and challenges of parent engagement.

Note: We'll now be releasing episodes on Fridays! Thanks for hanging in for our new schedule :)

In this episode, we'll discuss some of the challenges that come with group dynamics during their early stages and ways we've handled them as facilitators. .

If you want to read more about Tuckman's stages of group development, start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development