Training Programs for AFSers
Discover all the skills development opportunities AFS has to offer for volunteers and staff!
Welcome! Here you can find all the training opportunities that AFS International offers to help you become more prepared and effective in your role within AFS as a volunteer, board member, or staff.
For more information on starting dates of these and other AFS development opportunities, you can access the Network Training Calendar.
For Volunteers
Foundations of Intercultural Learning and Global Competence
Learn about AFS and how we create impact, meet fellow AFS volunteers from around the world, and enhance your intercultural and global competence!
📌 11 modules
⌚ 4 hours (avg)
📼 💻 Online + Zoom Sessions
Qualified Trainer Certification Program
Become certified to facilitate intercultural learning and global competence to your fellow AFS volunteers and staff.
🧑🏾🤝🧑🏼 4-5 days of in-person training
💻 online assessment + Learning Session Design coaching calls
Paused for 2021
Student Learning Journey Facilitator Program
In this program you’ll learn how to virtually facilitate live dialogue sessions of the AFS Student Learning Journey to high school students from around the world.
⌚1.5-hour live session
📼 Zoom Session
☑️ Prerequisites apply
Coming Soon!
Leadership Development Program
A program created to develop chapter presidents and other key volunteers as leaders and to make leadership intentional at the local level.
📌 19 modules + 🧑🏾🤝🧑🏼 4 days in-person training + 👩🏫 6 months mentorship
⌚6-8 month commitment
📼 Online + Zoom Sessions
Paused for 2021
For Board Members
Governance and Leadership for AFS Board Members
The most important policies and procedures, tools, and best practices to help AFS Board members achieve their goals.
📌 14 modules
⌚4-6 hours (avg)
📼 Online + optional Zoom sessions
☑️ Standalone course
Foundations of Intercultural Learning and Global Competence
The foundational level of the Intercultural Link Learning Program that helps participants to increase intercultural and global competence.
📌 11 modules
⌚4 hours (avg)
📼 💻 Online + Zoom Sessions
For Partner Directors
Impact House with the University of Pennsylvania
The AFS Impact House is a training program designed specifically for AFS by UPenn to help Partner Directors and Senior Leadership integrate social innovation and business acumen into their work for maximum impact.
🧑🏾🤝🧑🏼 7-day in-person training
📼 Pre-event online course
📍At University of Pennsylvania Campus (Philadelphia, USA)
Paused for 2021
Governance and Leadership for AFS Board Members
The most important policies and procedures, tools, and best practices to help AFS leadeship achieve their goals.
📌 14 modules
⌚4-6 hours (avg)
📼 Online + optional Zoom sessions
☑️ Standalone course
AFS Great Managers Training (Partner Directors Edition)
Designed to strengthen the core skills needed to be a great manager. Based on a combination of psychological research on management and feedback from the Network.
📌 6 live online sessions
⌚2 hours per session
📼 Zoom Sessions
Coming late 2021
Foundations of Intercultural Learning and Global Competence
The foundational level of the Intercultural Link Learning Program that helps participants to increase intercultural and global competence.
📌 11 modules
⌚4 hours (avg)
📼 💻 Online + Zoom Sessions
For Staff
Data Protection and GDPR Training
Learn more about data protection requirements to ensure that AFS protects the rights of stakeholders, complying with the current legal regulations.
📌 7 modules
⌚5 hours (avg)
📼 Online
☑️ Standalone course
Volunteer Management Online Training
This course helps anyone working with volunteers to develop the necessary skills for managing the volunteer experience.
📌 9 modules
⌚4-5 hours (avg)
📼 Online
☑️ Standalone course
Participant Support Basics ▶Level 1
We will look at different aspects of participant support at AFS so new and experienced staff will approach support in a consistent manner.
📌 9 modules
⌚3-5 hours (avg)
📼 Online
☑️ This certification is a required for the in-person support training
Participant Support ▶ Emotional and Mental Health
A virtual training course which aims to develop a better understanding of emotional and mental health issues faced by our participants, and how to work together to provide support.
⌚1.5 h live session
📼 4-6 Zoom Sessions + 4 hours of offline work
☑️ Prerequisites apply
Foundations of Intercultural Learning and Global Competence
The foundational level of the Intercultural Link Learning Program that helps participants to increase intercultural and global competence.
📌 11 modules
⌚4 hours (avg)
📼 💻 Online + Zoom Sessions
☑️ Part 1 of ICL Training
AFS Great Managers Training (Senior Managers Edition)
Designed to strengthen the core skills needed to be a great manager. Based on a combination of psychological research on management and feedback from the Network.
📌 6 live online sessions
⌚1 hour per session (avg)
📼 Zoom Sessions
☑️ Standalone course
