Young Leadership Training Program (Group Leaders' Seminar)
Purpose:
To impart to new group leaders, mostly recruited from older
members of Re'ut-Sadaka and from universities, the skills and attitudes needed
to function as group leaders. Also the youngsters living
One Year of Live for
Coexistence take part in the Leadership Training
Program.
Goal:
Our training program supplements these young leaders' natural
capacities for tolerance and mutual respect. It increases their desire to
contribute towards social justice and provides a sound basis in the skills
and sensitivities which will sustain them in the formation and leadership
of Re'ut-Sadaka's youth
groups.
Training Program:
Prospective young group-leaders for Re'ut-Sadaka arrive at our
training program with great motivation and desire for commitment but generally
lack certain basic skills and clarity of perspective. The program therefore
must
be certain to instill in the prospective group leaders such necessary skills
as a basic understanding of group dynamics, a sensitivity to the awarenesses
and needs of young Arabs and Jews in Israel and a critical self understanding
of his or her own leadership potential.
The training program is composed of lectures, demonstrations
and exercises designed to impart techniques appropriate to Jewish-Arab groups
in general and to the unique methods of Re'ut-Sadaka in particular. In addition,
the training addresses technical areas such as methods of new member recruitment
and of fostering commitment in a new group through a contract process and
curriculum planning. Finally, the training program includes practice in
facilitation in pairs, as all Re'ut-Sadaka youth groups are formed and led
by a Jewish and an Arab leader working together.
Action Plan:
The training program has three stages:
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Stage One is implemented in August, just before the start of
the school year. It is intended as a four day "crash course" or immersion
program which teaches basic techniques of leadership in Jewish-Arab youth
groups and equips a number of new group leaders with the necessary tools
to begin the recruitment of new groups with the start of the school
year.
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Stage Two stretches over four separate weekends in October and
December. It is intended to reinforce the techniques taught in stage one
and to serve as a trouble-shooting session to complement the field work of
the new group leaders.
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Stage Three includes six weekend sessions, once a month. Each
session focuses on a particular educational problem that may arise from the
variety of approaches and programs involved in running a Jewish-Arab youth
group over a series of successive weekly meetings during the length of the
school year.
Contact:
Reut@inter.net.il
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Our Staff Members
Our Board Members
Re'ut-Sadaka
Derech Allenby 20
33265 Haifa
Tel: 00972-4-8526926 Fax: 00972-4-8528392