Facilitating adult learning
How do you: 1. communicate with your youth? 2. involve them in planning activities 3. analyse their needs 4. set and match programme and learning objectives to meet these needs 5. design the programme 6. organise project work 7. implement programmes 8. evaluate programmes.
Effective communication is built on trusting relationships and the best place to begin is with you. “Communication” is a broad topic and includes learning how to craft words, how to develop verbal techniques, how to listen, how to read non-verbal messages, and other important abilities. The best carefully crafted words, delivered with great technique and skill will only be so much noise without something more. Before we can build trusting relationships and effectively communicate with youth, we must have a good understanding of ourselves. In short, we must recognize our abilities and gifts, limitations and strengths and actively rely on the Holy Spirit.
Effective communication is built on trusting relationships and the best place to begin is with you. “Communication” is a broad topic and includes learning how to craft words, how to develop verbal techniques, how to listen, how to read non-verbal messages, and other important abilities. The best carefully crafted words, delivered with great technique and skill will only be so much noise without something more. Before we can build trusting relationships and effectively communicate with youth, we must have a good understanding of ourselves. In short, we must recognize our abilities and gifts, limitations and strengths and actively rely on the Holy Spirit.
Above picture is about communication which we can see also there is many type or ways how to communicate with people.
One of our communication goals is to let the young person know that we really care about him or her. This is a vital link in the whole communication process. At times it will seem as though they are oblivious to our genuine love - our actions and words bounce off, unable to penetrate their hard exterior. For those who have been hurt and hardened by past experiences and present realities, accepting love is most difficult.
Listen to everything that is being said. Every message has two components, the content and the feelings underlying the content. Both give the message its meaning, and it is the total meaning which we must attempt to understand. You may be thinking that listening is too passive and that in order to be helpful, you should be directive, telling the troubled young person what to do. Clinical experience and research evidence, however, clearly show that sensitive listening is an excellent method for affecting personality change.
Respond to feelings. Often the verbal content is much less important than the underlying feelings. When you respond to feelings you tell the young person, “I am interested in you as a person, and I think that what you feel is important.”
We shared our experienced .. we shares our thoughts .. we share our feelings
As a youth worker it is important to involved young people to do any activity… and before that also we must also involved them to plan the activity which from this we will know that what the young people needs. As for me i usually involved them with planning the activity. From that we can shared a lot of things which either we can improved the quality nor the quantity also..meaning to say that young people also have many influenced which they can manage to tell their friends..groups to join the activity. However by involving doesnt mean we involved them secara mengajut.. actually we doing it step by step from this they can learn slowly but affective. Usually the way we think is not the sama what they think so by involving them it easier for me to know what they really want..what type of activity that they really want. Giving an opportunity for them is a must in order to see what quality and creativity that they really have. Based on my experienced at work… its very enjoyable to work with the youth…we can shares whats on our mind … from this the idea will come out sometimes its so many but of course at the begginning it is very difficult for them but slowly they will learn from people experienced and also from their own experienced.
As a youth worker we must also be flexible to the people especially the youth. whatever they want to do just give them an opportunity althugh it was not success at very first time they do.. from failure they will learn something which can make them more stronger to face any challenges… from that also they can learn from their own mistake which can be usefull for them also. Nevertheless we must also memainkan pernan untuk mengajar the young people.. apa yang durang buat inda kira lah yang durang buat atu baik atau ada yang kekurangan we must give feedbck to them … we must teach them from this they will know what the mistake or kekurangan dalam membuat sesuatu aktibiti itu.
Usually when i design any programme or activity doing research is one of the tools that i use. There is man type os reserach that i doing .. by talking to them informally… discuss with them what they want and really need the most and also get feedback from previous activity ( by writing ) … from this i will know what type of activity that i must do. However desing the programme also boleh di buat based on meliat apa kelemahan atau kekurangan yang ada pada belia belia contohnya mereka memerlukan pengurusan dari segi kewangan atau pentadbiran dalam sebuah persatuan atau kelab.. dengan ini boleh lah kita membuat sesuatu aktibiti based in what they really need.
Youth activity
As always any projects or programme need preparation before we do it. Time is most important thing when we do any project. Meaning to say is we need time to plan the activity .. not to mengajut membuat sesuatu aktibiti atu kalau buleh untuk plan the activity memerlukan masa yang panjang dan memerlukan orang sekeliling untuk sama sama membincangkan apa yang terbaik untuk aktibiti itu. We also choose the right day or date to the activity .. inda bertambung dengan projek lain atau if target for this project is for student we must do it at school holiday if not this will affect them learning at school. Any meeting for discussing youth activity need youth to involved also from this we can have more ideas also.
After finish doing any youth activity we need post-moterm from this we can tingkatkan lagi usaha di masa akan datang or feedback from them …. from this we know whats our kekurangan and apa yang perlu di tambah untuk membuat aktibiti ini di masa akan datang. Biasanya selesai sahaja any youth activity we give them feedback question in order the youth can manage to give comment on the activity they joined.
