#14 | School-Community Partnerships: How Male Volunteers and Mentors Completely Change the Dynamic of a School - w/ Jordan Bowman, Community Leader, Executive Director | Journeymen

Educators, do you ever notice how a volunteer or a community leader can completely change how students behave in your classroom? What if these community volunteers could be an entire ecosystem of support for your young people? That’s what Jordan Bowman and his organization, Journeymen, represent when he and a group of male volunteers enter the school space. Please enjoy Jordan’s insights in this week’s episode. 

Getting involved with people like Jordan Bowman means it all doesn’t have to rest on your shoulders - and we know teachers are already dealing with far too much.

We cover:

1. How community mentors can support educators in supporting our youth

   
   



2. How rites of passage can change a young person’s life

   
   



3. The “bio, psycho, social, spiritual” framework, and how to use it to meet the needs of our young people

   
   

(0:00) Class in session

(2:00) Jordan introduces himself

(12:00) How can mentors, community leaders/volunteers, and afterschool program leaders better support teachers?

(14:00) Forging independence, resiliency, and emotional maturity

(16:00) The red tape of mentoring

(18:00) Asking, “Where else can we show up? Where else can we support?”

(19:00) What happens when a bunch of male volunteers show up at a school?

(22:30) Rites of passage - or rituals of maturity - can make young people rise to the occassion

(27:50) Youth are stuck in a state of dependence

(30:00) Rites of passage success stories

(34:00) Bio, psycho, social, spiritual

(40:00) More unstructured play and Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation”

(42:00) Educators need to practice their own presence

(46:00) How to connect with Jordan

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Connect with Jordan Bownman:

Website: journeymentriangle.org

Website: https://www.jbowman.org/

Social: @Jordan7Bowman; @Journeymen_NC

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