{"id":277,"date":"2019-06-04T06:28:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youththriving\/?p=277"},"modified":"2019-06-04T06:35:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:35:44","slug":"practitioner-tip-tuesday-the-puzzle-of-developmental-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youththriving\/practitioner-tip-tuesday-the-puzzle-of-developmental-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Practitioner Tip Tuesday: The Puzzle of Developmental Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Last month I traveled to Billings, Montana where the National Extension Conference on Volunteerism<\/a> was taking place. I was invited to facilitate a pre-conference workshop on the 4-H Thriving Model with 4-H Volunteer Specialists from around the country. After a whirlwind morning where I left home at 3:30am to catch a first-of-the-morning flight to Salt Lake City, and then on to Billings, I arrived at lunch time and was ready to go by 1pm. I was excited to get to spend the afternoon with the group of people who will lead the way in preparing 4-H volunteers to help youth thrive.<\/p>\n

Since many of the people who would be there had never heard of the 4-H Thriving Model, I knew I wanted to spend a good portion of the time we had together making sure everyone understood the model and how it describes how 4-H works its magic with youth. Doing so would take a good portion of the afternoon, but it also meant that everyone would be on the same page and ready to move forward together.<\/p>\n

While I always enjoy sharing the 4-H Thriving Model with others, I was most looking forward to the second half of the session, because, let’s face it, I had a captive audience of creative and experienced professionals who could develop wonderful learning activities to teach the 4-H Thriving Model to 4-H volunteers! So later in the day the group split into smaller teams and tackled how they would teach some of the 4-H Thriving Model concepts to volunteers. I walked away with a whole stack of creative, quick, and fun ideas for teaching volunteers! And, with the gracious A-OKAY from the volunteer specialists, I get to share them here on Practitioner Tip Tuesdays!<\/p>\n

So, let’s start with this idea on how to introduce Developmental Relationships:<\/p>\n

Don’t Be Puzzled by Developmental Relationships<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This activity is useful for teaching in groups of 10 or more, but can be adapted for smaller groups.<\/p>\n

Materials:<\/em><\/p>\n