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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.
The Science of Well-Being with Dr. Laurie Santos
01:25:56
Anger and Happiness
04:24
Happiness in Hard Circumstances and the RAIN Technique
05:39
How to Build Happiness into Youth Programming
04:41
How to Quantify Happiness
05:46
Positivity in Community
03:34
Social Connection and Being Other-Oriented
05:37
Why Happiness Is Relevant
05:45
Youth and Sleep
02:51
Social Injustice and Happiness
04:47
Just Breathe: Resilience Strategies for Today’s Youth & Youth Workers
01:05:23
Spiritual Resilience
02:24
Connectivity
03:22
Resilience and Holy Breath
03:25
Mind, Body, Spirit Resilience
06:42
Political Resistance & Spiritual Resilience
08:51
Increasing Resilience
10:18
Youth with Lower Resilience
07:51
Why Resilience Today?
06:28
The Communal Aspect of Resilience
03:05
Wrestling with Rest in a COVID-19 World with Nathan Stucky; September 9th, 2020
01:08:28
How Rest Became an Area of Focus
04:32
Rest as Resistance
05:24
Rest for the Underprivileged
04:55
Rest Starts with the Youth Workers
05:15
Sabbath as Communal, Not Individual
06:49
Technology and Rest
04:48
What is Preventing Our Community from Resting?
03:48
Wrestling with Rest in a COVID-19 World Prayer
04:21
Wrestling with Rest in a COVID-19 World - Prayer
04:22
Racial Resilience: Anti-Racism as Spiritual Praxis, July 30, 2020
01:27:38
Race and Christianity Impact
01:20
Compassion & How To Cultivate In Our Lives
05:17
Wisdom Given To A Youth Worker
03:55
Keeping Conversations Moving
06:31
Hope
03:54
Emotional Reactions
04:37
Cultivating Compassion
03:13
Cultivating Compassion for Another
02:50
Discerning Compassionate Action
02:50
Anxiety in the Midst of Crisis
02:51
Empowerment and Action
03:29
Fear, Isolation, & Anxiety: Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Youth with Dr. Kim
05:41
Including, but beyond, just the Spiritual
01:21
Fear, Isolation, & Anxiety: Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Youth with Dr. Kim
03:07
Care for Longer-Lasting Trauma
01:51
The Work in a Nutshell
02:25
Rev. Mark DeVries on Sustainable Youth and Children’s Ministries
01:16:09
Rev. Mark DeVries on the Anatomy of Stuckness
04:03
Rev. Mark DeVries on the Importance of Failure
04:51
Rev. Mark DeVries on Failure as Part of the Process of Revitalization
04:51
Rev. Mark DeVries on the Trap of Terminal Uniqueness
02:37
Rev. Mark DeVries on Shifting from Content Thinking to Systems Thinking
06:25
Rev. Mark DeVries on Shifting from Content Thinking to Systems Thinking
06:25
Rev. Mark DeVries on Allowing Room for Risk and Failure
04:19
Rev. Mark DeVries on Leading from the Second Chair
06:53
Rev. Mark DeVries on Helpers and Partners in Youth Ministry
06:33
Dr. Andy Root - Interpreting the Experience of Divorce for Youth Ministry and the Church
58:22