Skill Development
 
Building rapport and powerful relationships with today’s youthThis session will be all about the foundation of this work: cultivating authentic, safe, generative relationships. Learn to use specific, practical skills - both verbal and non-verbal - to generate excitement and interest in youth. Learn that masterful rapport building requires far more than just plain “common sense”! 
Working effectively with challenging behaviors
We spend far too much time punishing old behaviors and not enough time teaching new ones. Move away from the model of punish and coerce and move towards educate and empower. You’ll be amazed at the difference these techniques make. 
 
 
 
Exploring Contemporary Youth Related Issues
 
Dispelling the myth of ADD: 
Challenging the traditionally held beliefs about psychological “disorders”, you’ll learn remarkable information about the possibilities of a child’s mind. For anyone who senses something inherently wrong with drugging a generation of our children. 
The Role of Mentors and Mentoring
What exactly is our role? What purpose do we serve in the lives of youth? Where do we draw boundaries? An intensive introduction to the domain of Mentoring.
 
Teaching Kids To Be the Leaders Of Their Own Lives: 
Teach kids to think of their lives in terms of possibilities. Influence them to be self-accountable and able to stand for themselves, even when no one else is. Learn experientially a very intriguing way of getting kids excited and motivated to be responsible for their own lives.
 
Inspiring youth to truly live the “Heart and Soul” of your program:At its best the ”Heart and Soul” of your program is pervasive and unmistakable - it changes lives. Learn to inspire youth to make this experience manifest in their words and acts, to truly apply the profound in the domain of their daily lives. 
Program Development Sessions
 
“Don’t talk behind my back!” Creating Clean Communication in your programEliminate gossip, enhance supportiveness and promote self-accountability amongst your staff. How to generate a staff that truly models the values you want to teach kids.
 
Hey Staff!: “One thing you say or do can change a child’s life!”Learn a powerful method for motivating and inspiring your staff to maintain and sustain a positive mindset. This session is consistently acclaimed for its usefulness in staff training, especially for setting the tone early on that what they do, matters!  
 
 
Supervising and Motivating Summer Camp Staff
 
How to Counsel Counselors in a Camp Environment
For any supervisory staff who directly supports general counselors, Empowering one Counselor will impact dozens of campers. Help Counselors to take care of themselves so that they can take care of campers! 
 
Motivating and Inspiring Male Staff
Get beyond the macho, tough guy surface and create a male staff that truly model integrity for your campers. Learn a powerful and effective Orientation session to use with staff, which has proven consistently effective with setting a positive tone for male counselors. 
 
 
Summer Camp Counseling Related Issues
 
Counseling Campers who want to go home
One or two truly homesick campers can affect a whole group. Learn how to effectively counsel these kids, empowering them to make good decisions while leaving the rest of the camper group in tact.
 
Working with over protective, over involved parents
During the summer, who takes up more of your time, the campers or their parents? Help parents to identify what they really want and to own what’s about them and what’s about their child. They – and their child – will thank you for it. 
Motivate Staff to take Camp Counseling Seriously!
Asking good questions can be more powerful than giving facts. Learn several methods, which consistently impact staff to be more serious and committed to this work.
 
 
 
 
Jeffrey Leiken, MA
Proposals for 2001 Youth Related Conferences
(415) 441-8218
JLeiken@MentorCounselor.com  
 
 
 
Jeffrey S. Leiken, MA “The Counselor’s Counselor” is a Professional Trainer and Educator with 16 years of youth related experience. He began working with kids as a Summer Camp Counselor in 1984, and now travels internationally sharing his knowledge, skill and expertise with members of the helping professions. He teaches in the Graduate School of Education at the University of San Francisco, and has a successful Professional Mentoring and Counseling Private Practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led training’s with thousands of Youth work professionals, from beginning Counselors, to teachers to veteran Administrators. He has presented at many major conferences for the American Camping Association and the After School Care industry. 
Jeffrey holds a Masters Degree in Educational Counseling, a Pupil Personnel Credential (School Counseling) issued by the State of California and has extensive training in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), including certification as an NLP Practitioner, NLP as Brief Therapy and as a facilitator of the MythoSelf™ model.