Overarching goals of the certification

1. Develop a professional and ethic youth trainer attitude
2. Improve on self-awareness and self regulation in your role as trainer (self-management).
3. Develop the skills needed for training delivery and training program design
4. Be able to evaluate and follow-up on an effective training program;
5. Develop strategies and a personal network to independently continue development of  skills and knowledge related to the role of a trainer.
6. Initiate and maintain a personal training portfolio and further trainer’s development actions.

Certification requirements

Attending the event is the beginning of the YTA certification process. To complete it, a participant should deliver a total of 20 hours of training along with the redaction of training reports and handouts for the related sessions.

Session Topics

1. Teambuilding (2 hours)
2. Trainers Attitude (2 hours)
3. Adult Learning (2 hours)
4. Stage Performance (4 hours)
5. Public narrative (4 hours)
6. Facilitation for trainers (4 hours)
7. Group dynamics (4 hours)
8. Training Design (8 hours)
9. Training Delivery (8 hours)
10. Activity Management (4 hours)
11. Training follow-up (4 hours)

Elective modules

1. Storytelling (1 hour)
2. Improvisation (1 hour)
3. Coaching (1 hour)
4. Visualisation (1 hour)
5. Empathy/Listening (1 hour)

This piece of information is presented as an illustration of the event’s content. According to the participants’ needs, which are re-assessed every year, there might be some changes in number, variety and duration of topics.