The BYTE YOUTH On-call Faclitation Team is available for bookings. We are socially engaged youth trained by professionals to facilitate events, activities and workshops. All of our workshops incorporate ice breakers, energizers, reflection and debriefing.

Facilitator Rates are $150/day per facilitator, plus transportation and accommodations. Facilitator costs cover up to two workshop topics per day; the rate for additional workshop topics is $50/facilitator per topic.

Financial Support:

http://www.youth.gov.yk.ca/funding.html

Funding Highlights:
Youth Investment Application
Health Investment Application

Workshop Descriptions:

For bookings please contact: communitytours@yukonyouth.com or the BYTE office at (867)667-7975.

ANTI-BULLYING
Bullying prevents youth from developing healthy self identifies and self-esteem. Our Anti-Bullying workshop is fun and interactive. In this workshop, we have large and small group discussions to talk about what bullying looks like, who is targeted, why it’s a problem, and what steps we can take to ending it in our schools. One major focus is the idea of the bystander and how ignoring bullying only adds to the larger issue. Our team shares our personal experiences in order to give the participants the understanding that it happens to us all and also to give those who are bullied the knowledge that life gets better. We also explore the possibilities of countering bullying with understanding, compassion and connection.

ANTI-OPPRESSION 1.0
What makes us feel oppressed? How do we oppress others? What conscious and unconscious biases do we hold that prevent us from wanting to connect with others that we feel are not like “us”? Based on personal enquiry and group activities this challenging workshop seeks to dissect stereotypes and biases to strengthen our ability to work cooperatively across ethnicity, genders, geographies, and backgrounds. We strive to build trust, respect and understanding among participants. Our goal is to create a safe and supportive atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable learning about people who are different from ourselves and trying out new ways to express ourselves.

ANTI-OPPRESSION 2.0: MEDIA & POP CULTURE
Have you noticed how often the media and current popular culture forms and perpetuates stereotypes? Through activities on first impressions and a discussion on stereotypes we discover where they come from, how those ideas are brought about, and also why media plays such a large role in creating and changing our opinions, and sometimes we aren’t even aware it’s happening. Through a large group discussion we allow participants to voice their concern about current media (including TV, movies, music, and print mediums). As a culminating activity we dissect and breakdown current examples of both negative and positive media messaging and discuss the differences of their impact. A final art project will bring together all these ideas to show how, with awareness of the media; we can begin to change perceptions. This workshop is a follow-up to Anti-Oppression 1.0.

CLIMATE CHANGE & ‘ZINE MAKING
We hear about climate change in the media, but what does it really mean? How are we creating it and how can youth make a difference? In this workshop we look at what is really happening – What is the greenhouse effect? How is pollution causing it? – We also look more broadly into the ripple effect that climate change related issues have on other areas in our communities. This workshop aims to move participants forward into action as we look at creating teams, networks, and action plans to tackle climate change and the spectrum of interconnections related to it. We can determine our future and have lasting impact. At the end of this workshop the group creates a Climate Change Magazine, which we then copy and distribute to the group.

Climate Change 2.0: COMMUNITY ACTION PLANNING
As a follow up to Climate Change 1.0, this workshops asks participants to reflect on their community and the world around them. As a group, the participants come to a consensus on a community project that they would like to see created and/or improved upon, fully identify the objectives of the project, and come up with an action plan. It is fundamental to the success of this workshop that we have at least one adult to help see this project through with the participants after its completion.

EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS
Many youth today, specifically youth in the North have seen or experienced violence. Through interactive discussions, role playing and visual aids, we evaluate relationships of all kinds and where unhealthy relationships might lead us. We explore personal boundaries and encourage self-esteem building with a variety of activities which will help prepare participants for various relationship challenges. We also discuss how to support those in unhealthy relationships and identify community resources that are available.

JOB SURVIVAL TIPS & TOOLS
This workshop investigates job survival tips and tools through three workshops: communication, team building and decision making. We address the qualities of good employees and employers, as well as explore different techniques to survive in the workforce. Our goal for these three workshops are to integrate opportunity for developing job skills through role playing exercises as well as a variety of interactive initiatives, with time throughout for collective discussion and reflection.

LEADERSHIP
Our experiential leadership workshop explores qualities of a good leader, the different challenges leaders might face and how we can communicate in order to lead effectively. Leadership styles are addressed through a variety of challenges where participants each take a leadership role to complete the activity as a team. Through these challenges we will address what participants feel are qualities of good leaders and what they believe are not, and how they might be able to apply these ideas to grow into authentic leaders.

RIGHT TO BE HEARD 1.0
Though youth today might not always feel like it, they have the right to be heard, and the right to participate and share opinions. Developing this awareness brings the confidence to take and share knowledge and become active members in their communities. Activities in this workshop focus on and promote: the value and importance of participating and sharing opinions in our communities, review of places where we can express ourselves and be heard (and obstacles to overcome in order to be heard). Promoting the use of critical thinking to implement personal or community projects, we also look at specific community spaces to develop solutions to overcome key obstacles and identify the positive outcomes if these solutions were initiated.

SAFE PARTYING
Youth encounter substance use on a regular basis either directly or indirectly. By asking youth where they stand on certain issues, and by discussing the advantages and disadvantages of substance use, participants are able to evaluate their own perceptions and better understand steps to healthier lifestyles. Using the model of harm reduction and experiential activities, we discuss with participants how to be accountable for their actions and to stay safe.

‘ZINE MAKING
From start to finish this workshop draws out the group’s individual and collective messaging and then creates a homemade magaZINE with their voices and artistic expressions displayed. We get creative and crafty in this hands-on workshop. Combining mediums, methods and styles we will create our own ‘zines to share our views with a broader audience, in a creation that is uniquely our own! PLEASE NOTE: This workshop can be combined with any of the above workshops, but is not available on its own.
BYTE can also subcontracts the following workshops (PLEASE NOTE: the prices will vary depending on contractors of the workshops below):
Yoga,
DJing,
Dance