The JUMP! Foundation – Stories, Inspirations, and News
Adopt a ‘Critical Consciousness’ for Lasting Change
By Stacey Jones How did we get here? With depleting resources, increased marginalization, global warming and political conflict, we face huge challenges ahead as we educate Youth for a future of uncertainty and disruption. How can we as educators, parents and students...
JUMP!’s Steps to Conflict Resolution
Step 1: Cool Down Remove yourself from the situation for a moment. When you’ve just been exposed to conflict, emotions are high and can reduce your rationale. It’s difficult to see the situation from a non-emotionally driven perspective at first. In taking a moment to...
What can we learn from Psychology about Facilitating Positive Youth Development and Significant Learning?
Hello! My name is William Nicholls-Allison and I’m a graduate student in Adler University’s Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology programme in Vancouver, Canada. In 2019, I had the amazing opportunity to complete a 6-month internship at the JUMP! Foundation office...
Feedforward Promotes Positive Outcomes: A Lesson from Rick Dobbie
One of our longest-serving and most experienced facilitators, Rick Dobbie, led a workshop about giving feedforward at our organizational retreat last month! We all took a lot away from the time we had with him. Here are a couple of reflections from two members of our...
Keep it Simple and Seek Understanding: A Meaningful Workshop for Cross-cultural Communication
During our professional development day at the Organizational Retreat, Praewta Sorasuchart joined us to share her perspective on cross-cultural communications. She is a Thai native who spent much of her childhood in England at boarding school from the age of 7 until...
Celebrating a Wonderful Partnership with Ivanhoe Grammar School
One of JUMP!’s partner schools has reached an exciting milestone! When JUMP! starts a partnership with a school, we like to think of it as an opportunity to create a sustainable system in support of their individual needs. We help schools grow their leadership,...
Success in Myanmar: Our Largest-ever JUMP! Impact Leadership Conference in Southeast Asia
“Explore more. Help people. Don't ever give up.” When asked for a reflection on her experience at the JUMP! Impact Conference in Myanmar, one of the facilitators, Jayy responded with that statement. Last week, our JUMP! Impact team led our largest conference to...
Cherished Moments at the Into the Wild Conference in Germany
Check out this wonderful reflection written by Kate Johnston on her experience with our JUMP! Team at this year's Into the Wild Conference in Germany! On the 23rd of November 2019 a group of 12 Jumpers! left Thailand en route for Germany. We had been invited to the...
Let’s Start with Intention and Create Meaningful Impact –Initiating Dialogue and Sharing Experience at the IAVE Conference
On November 14th, our executive director, Justin Bedard, had the opportunity to speak at the IAVE conference held in Bangkok. IAVE stands for the International Association of Volunteer Effort. The organization began in 1970 and has an engaged member network from more...
Joel Lin from Sandler Training Gifts Our Team with New Tools for Partner Development
This week, the JUMP! Bangkok team got a very special treat. We all owe a big thank you to Joel Lin, who took the time to fly down to Bangkok on behalf of Sandler Training to share some invaluable wisdom on sales and partnership development. He offered us Sandler’s...