VPOST Conference: Workshop Spotlights Week 3

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Registration for VPOST's 17th Annual Conference, The Village We Build: Strengthening Youth and Relationships, closes in 25 days! Our conference presenters are bringing high-quality content and fresh resources to the field. We'll highlight all our workshops over the next few weeks, so keep an eye out to learn more about our speakers!

Conference Workshop Spotlights:

Leading with Soul: Strengthening Communities from the Inside Out introduces Dr. Tamice Spencer- Helms's soulful leadership framework: a soul-centered approach to understanding how meaningful change takes root in communities. Rather than treating leadership as a title, position, or top-down strategy, this framework explores leadership as an embodied, relational, and spiritually grounded practice that emerges from within a community's lived wisdom. Participants will be invited to consider how communities transform when people attend to the interior life of leadership: values, memory, grief, imagination, belonging, courage, and collective care.

How can OST programs inspire a lifelong love of reading while keeping youth actively engaged? Learn how First Book - a non-profit organization that provides resources for those that serve under-resourced communities - created an innovative approach to engaging youth through a unique, student-facing virtual game show series developed into partnrship with One Word at a Time (OWAAT). The series, entitled Story Showdown and hosted by Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander, was designed to broaden access to celebrated authors for middle schoolers in under-resourced communities. This session will demonstrate how literary events packaged in new, bold formats can engage youth as active participants. Workshop participants will discover how to leverage these free virtual events and integrate interactive storytelling methods into their own OST programs.

When afterschool staff feel confident, supported, and inspired, students thrive. But across the country, programs are stretched thin: 81% of providers cite staffing as a major concern, and more than half say burn out is a leading obstacle to recruiting and retaining great people. This session flips the script, giving afterschool teams the tools and training to lead with confidence, spark student joy, and deliver enrichment that makes a lasting impact. ABStudios explores how a thoughtful blend of technology, hands-on learning, and energizing professional development can boost staff morale, reduce prep time, and turn daily enrichment into something truly meaningful.

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