Positive Youth Development and Leadership*
"Climb: Discovering the Personal Power to Conquer the Mountains in Life"
Climb is an entertaining, inspiring, and empowering presentation geared to our youth that focuses on what to do when confronted with trying obstacles in life. Today's youth are bombarded with pressures from all angles and in all areas of life. Climb provides tools, activities, and moving stories that generate a positive shift in how to interpret adverse experiences and using these same challenges to draw incredible life lessons and insight. This program explores what it is we are paying attention to and how it affects our everyday outlook. With a fun dynamic presentation, Climb inspires youth to develop the character traits of a leader independent of negative influences attempting to manipulate decision-making. Audiences learn how to become the author of their life by determining how they'd like their life story to read by choosing how they respond to the circumstances life offers them.
Includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Acquire lifelong developmental assets
- Discover your meaning and purpose
- Declare ownership of aspirations and dreams
- Develop strategies for effectively coping with daily stressors
- Understand the impact of stress and its various stages
- Establish healthy relationship with peers and adults
- Positive attitude; maintain never giving up
- Reframe and reinterpret adverse life circumstances
- Appreciate the value of character and the privilege of leadership
- Exercise self-discovery and exploration
- Practice healthy exposure: stepping out of our personal comfort zone
- Take responsibility for our life's outcomes
- Be the author of our life
- Learn the hurdler's approach to achieving goals
- Making connections; find a mentor
- Value resourcefulness, relationships, and resiliency
- Applying CRUTCHES/RUTH in our life
- Managing life's challenges head on
- Get connected with your community -- make a difference
- Understand intrinsic and extrinsic motivation/internal and external locus of control
- 7 E's (Empowerment, Encouragement, Enlightenment, Environment, Entertainment, Exchange, and Education)
- 6 C's (Competence, Confidence, Character, Centered, Connection, and Contribution)
- Embrace uniqueness; write our personal life story
- Practice goal setting
- Develop our own value and belief system
- Ask the right questions
- Most importantly...Have fun!
*Incorporates components of the Lifestyle and Stress Management program.
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