Neurodivergence
What is neurodivergence?
Neurodiversity refers to the natural variation in how people's brains process information, perceive the world, and interact with others.
What are multiple intelligences?
MI is a framework that introduces different learning styles, or different areas in which a person can be intelligent. MI reflects different ways in which people learn and can be used to make activities more engaging to different learning styles, and also change up the pace of learning
What are the four stages of the River Guide?
Forming, Norming, Storming, and Performing
What is reframing?
Reframing is saying what’s said and connecting them to the activity’s objective can help us better understand what’s happening
Which staff were former CYC youth?
Paula and Connie
Ableism and disablism are the same idea
False
If a person learns independently and prefers to reflect in order to learn, what MI are they demonstrating?
Intrapersonal
In the the Forming stages, what do we do a lot of?
Community Building
What does invite participation mean?
Makes sure everyone who wants to gets to speak and participate?
What program does Sean run and what are the names of his JPC's?
APIYLC
Camille, William, and Leo
Name 2 conditions under the neurodivergence umbrella
Autism, ADHD, OCD
What is one MI that CYC program coordinators use the most in program?
Interpersonal
What is one skill that is important for staff and JPC's to have during the Storming phase of programming?
Conflict resolution so that everyone can resolve problems in a timely manner.
What is the difference between teaching and facilitation?
Facilitators do not give you the information and they do not grade you.
Nijah was in which extracurricular in high school?
Choir
What is masking and what happens when a neurodivergent person masks too much
Masking is is a strategy used by some neurodivergent people, consciously or unconsciously, to appear neurotypical in order to blend in and be more accepted in society. Burnout is what happens when a person masks too much.
If you were a musician who was performing in front of people and dancing what MI's are you demonstrating?
Bodily/ Kinesthetic
Musical/ Rhythmic
Interpersonal
What are examples of performing in CYC programming?
The Youth Action and Solidarity Summit and AAPI Summit
Resource Cards
Service Learning Projects
Instead of debate in program, what do we want instead
Dialogue
How many months has Colby worked at CYC?
4
Explain energy accounting
Energy accounting is a way of measuring how much energy you have and how much set tasks and stressors will cost you in energy.
What MI's are used to design and present a workshop at a youth summit?
all of them
How do you know that Norming has occured?
Everyone knows each other's names.
They know their program name
Everyone feels a little more comfortable participating
Name one anti-racist facilitation technique?
Holds strong critical self awareness and understand the privilege they bring into the space
Activates multiple learning modalities to support groups learning
Invite push back on meeting content non defensively
Continuously seek group consent about process and pause during challenging moments to rebuild consent about process and creates space in the session agenda for emergent ideas
Remains attentive to power dynamics in the room and invite perspectives from various “parts” of a group, centering the voices that are typically marginalized
Use creative ways to invite various perspectives, divergent learning styles, and are mindful of pacing that can be compounded with positional power in a room
What instruments does Paula play?
Paula plays the guitar and the ukulele