Growing young trainers and progression routes

Training the trainers of tomorrow. Creating a legacy of conflict prevention for the future.

Leap Confronting Conflict has always seen young people as the solution, not the problem.

Leap has a youth leadership model. All our courses for young people include learning about facilitation, how to deliver a workshop to peers, how to train other people. In this way young people can put what they are learning directly into practice. They can also gain accreditation through Youth Achievement Awards, the Open College Network, and from 2009, through City & Guilds.

For some, that is enough. They might use their skills in their own lives, with their friends, families, or work colleagues. It might take them to a job, or to college. They might go and train to become a youth worker, a community mediator, a social worker, a peace worker, a teacher. They are on a new journey.

For others, they want to take what they’ve learnt from Leap and raise it to the next level. They want to learn more about facilitation, about delivering conflict work. They’ve been inspired by the people who have trained them, and want to become a conflict resolution trainer themselves.

The Young Trainer project recruits young people from Leap’s youth programmes, and offers them further training and coaching. This builds on the learning they already have, by giving them opportunities to work alongside some of our most senior and experienced freelance trainers. When the participants have completed the course and done some voluntary work, they can choose to be assessed to become an apprentice freelance trainer for Leap.

Young Trainers who complete the programme get a Leap Certificate, and can choose to gain a level one, two or three accreditation through the Open College Network, and from 2009, through City & Guilds. If they join Leap’s pool of trainers, they can go on to get a level four qualification, soon to be accredited by Leeds Metropolitan University.

If you want to know more about becoming a young trainer, please contact Sandy Sanghera.

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