Lizzy and Nat welcome Jess Levine (she/her) to share best practices and considerations when working with youth participants with various social abilities.

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Our very first guest, William Collier (he/him), joins Lizzy & Nat to talk about setting boundaries with young folks - especially as a new youth development professional.

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Join Lizzy and Nat as they share some tales of young love and how these relationships sometimes play out in various programming spaces. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thethirdspace/support

Lizzy shares one of her favorite tools in thinking through expectation-setting with young people.

Social Discipline Window resource

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Nat shares all their insecurities about their new job teaching 7th grade students and we talk about the parallels to the middle school youth experience. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thethirdspace/support

In this shorter ep, Lizzy and Nat discuss what has changed for them in the last 4 years and name their hopes for the new season

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How do we engage parents and adult family members in our work with youth? In this work, sometimes it can be hard to know how to engage with parents to support our work with their children. In this episode we explore the strengths and challenges of parent engagement.

Note: We'll now be releasing episodes on Fridays! Thanks for hanging in for our new schedule :)

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In this episode, we'll discuss some of the challenges that come with group dynamics during their early stages and ways we've handled them as facilitators. .

If you want to read more about Tuckman's stages of group development, start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development

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In this episode, we discuss onboarding youth to a new space and some of the tools and strategies we are using this fall to get groups going!

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In this episode, we'll discuss how to bring more hospitality into our youth spaces. We define different characteristics of hospitality through examples and stories from our own experiences. 

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In this episode, we explore the value and purpose of exit interviews, and discuss some of our favorite exit interview questions and strategies. 

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