Against the Current Workshop Series

Join us for an upcoming workshop or schedule a workshop with us! Workshops feature tried and true frameworks, activities, and tools, each validated coast-to-coast-to-coast with communities and organizations over our 35+ years of youth engagement expertise.

Workshops are for practitioners, researchers, decision-makers, and youth leaders. NOTE: These workshops are offered in ENGLISH ONLY.

Upcoming Virtual Workshops

Virtual workshops are 1 hour and cost $50 per workshop! Spots are limited, so sign up soon!

Community Strategy Development

September 3 (Thursday) 12pm PST / 3pm EST

For coalitions and communities at the drawing board or seeking to deepen community strategy! This workshop dives into creating a shared vision, centering youth voice and contribution, and generating adult buy-in.

Facilitator: Christa Romaldi (Chief Development Officer) has worked alongside numerous communities and organizational collaboratives to design and implement strategies, including youth engagement strategies, youth violence prevention strategies, and community building strategies that focus on youth wellbeing.

Your Youth Engagement Starter Pack

September 24 (Thursday) 12pm PST / 3pm EST

This workshop explores foundations of youth engagement and activities for all issues, groups of young people, and settings (digital, in-person). Walk away with a template for structuring new programs and re-energizing existing groups, and techniques for navigating challenging discussions and fostering inclusive participation.

Facilitator: Kaitlin Power (Skills Development Coordinator) who brings 10+ years sparking and sustaining engagement among diverse groups young people across educational, community, and virtual settings. Kaitlin is masterful at real-time adaptations of planned activities to meet emergent needs.

Upcoming Toronto Workshops

Community Building and Culture Shifting

September 17 1pm-4:30pm EST at our Toronto Youth Centre (23 Isabella Street)

This workshop series unpacks how to work with youth who have been marginalized, explores rewriting community narratives, and moving toward more inclusive and safe spaces. Workshops center around values-rooted programming and how community partnerships can change systems and communities.

This workshop costs $75 per person.

Facilitators:
Abdi Mohamud (Associate Director of Program Delivery and Culture) brings over 20 years of experience in critical youth work informed by Afrocentric values. He provides strategic and operational leadership for programs addressing root causes impacting communities, while advancing an organizational culture grounded in equity, care, and shared leadership.

Chantelle Edwards (Toronto Community Lead) runs virtual and in-person youth programming spanning cultural curiosity, youth leadership development, and creating safer spaces where young people can find belonging and community. An integral part of her approach is building relationships and giving youth a space to feel heard, which opens doors to new perspectives and deeper understanding across diverse experiences.

Schedule a Workshop

Schedule a virtual or in-person workshop for your organization, community, or project. We offer a suite of workshops that we can tailor around your young people and context spanning: - Youth leadership development - Adult Ally training - Participatory action research - Mental and holistic health and substance misuse - Healthy relationships and gender-based violence prevention - Grievance-based violence prevention