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Best Practices
We've curated clips from our video archive into what we consider 'best practices' for youth ministry. We hope that these offer useful footholds in exploring the material available.
Teaching Holy Troublemaking: Resources for Progressive Christian Formation
01:28:31
How To Prepare Young People
08:14
Intergenerational Story Sharing
07:57
Stories as Connectional
04:43
Stories for Adults Too
04:17
Vulnerability as Trauma Dumping
05:17
Developing Your Praxis for Building Diverse Youth Communities with Dr. Brian Ragsdale, Ph.D.
01:08:34
Children and Youth Development Across Lines of Identity
08:03
Community Building and Relationships
07:33
Children Creating a World of Inclusiveness
03:04
The Nature of Systems and Power
09:16
Multiple Identities and Flexible Programming
01:55
Spiritual Care for Young People in the Climate Crisis with Rev. Talitha Amadea Aho
01:14:32
A Scale of Emotions Related to the Climate Crisis
15:05
How To Support Advocates
03:53
Is the Church Prepared to Address Crisis
02:37
Refugia
01:54
Rethinking God's Role in the World
02:35
Self Care vs Community Care
02:30
Grief, we all feel it, but do you know what to do with it? with Dr. Szu-Hui Lee, PhD, ABPP
01:22:34
Can Time Heal Grief?
06:52
Connectional Nature of Grief
02:27
Grief or Trauma
02:15
How Anxiety Manifests for Youth
04:31
How Youth Experience Grief
03:56
Immigrant Terms and Implications
02:47
Knowing an Immigrant's Story
05:19
Tending to Your Own Grief as a Youth Worker
05:40
Where Grief Shows Up Unexpectedly
04:42
The Emotional Intelligence Factor: How to Apply EI to Youth Ministry.
01:07:44
Why Do We Have Emotions?
02:36
The Four Steps of Emotional Intelligence
01:35
Step One: Mapping Feelings
04:18
Step Two: Matching Feelings
01:43
Step Three: Making Meaning out of Feelings
00:39
Step Four: Moving Feelings
01:19
Implications of Emotional Intelligence
00:44
Matching Emotion to Tasks
02:28
Cognitive Empathy
01:42
Empowering Parents to Practice Faith at Home: A Ministry Leader Workshop
01:13:57
How to Approach Faith with Families
01:02
Three Pillars of Faith at Home
01:54
Traditions for Faith at Home
01:16
Rituals for Faith at Home
00:53
Spiritual Practices for Faith at Home
00:39
Choosing the Favorite "Recipes"
04:36
Repeated Nature of Faith, according to Science
02:30
If at First You Don't Succeed...
00:43
Minister as Curator, not Entertainer
05:01
Adventures in Space-Making with the Rev. Phiwa Langeni
01:25:45
Bathrooms and Safety - Disrupting the Narrative
06:51
Bringing Everyone into Decision-Making
04:21
Education and Humility
06:37
Immigrant Youth and Listening
04:32
Mental Health and Joy for LGBTQ+ Teens
05:27
Mentorship in Space-Making
05:16
Showing, Not Telling, and How To Update our Language
02:29
Support for Families
05:17
Definitions of Terms
03:02
Innovation, Imagination, and Frustration: New Directions for Youth Ministry
01:26:59
Imagination in Youth Ministry
01:36
Risk in Youth Ministry
01:01
Why Social Enterprise for Youth Ministry?
02:52
Open Seas for YM or a Ship in a Bottle?
01:35
Fiscal Needs for Young Adults
01:24
Haves vs. Have-Nots in Youth Group
01:17
Niceness vs. Accountability in Youth Group
01:11
Adult Volunteerism and the Vindskip Image
01:55
An Emerging Youth Ministry Story
02:25
A Journey with LGBTQ+ and Immigrant Youth with Yadi MartÃnez-Reyna
01:24:47
Creating an LGBTQ+-friendly Prom
06:28
Creating Connections with Community Organizations
04:30
Developing Programs for LGBTQ+ Community
02:32
How to Minister to Immigrant Youth
04:09
How to Minister to Undocumented Youth
06:22
LGBTQ+ Youth and the Day of Silence
03:26
Mentoring Young People on the Margins
04:21
Safe and Brave Space
02:58
Covenant Keeping in LGBTQ+ Friendly Spaces
03:09
A New Vision of Youth Ministry Beyond the Walls of the Church: Mission Work and Outdoor Ministry
01:30:02
What Is Mission Work?
04:02
Authentic Relationships
00:32
What’s Meaningful About Mission Work?
01:46
Engaging Missions
01:52
Virtual Mission Trips
01:30
Virtual Engagement is Different
04:32
Digital Tools and Safety
09:31
Bringing the Camp Experience Home
02:32
Spiritual Practices Outdoors
01:23