PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS

We bring out the best in young people by creating a space for students to revisit perspectives of themselves, their peers, and their community.

Our Student Programs enhance students’ confidence and ability to face future challenges. We challenge students to gain a broader understanding and appreciation for their community, and provide them with opportunities to exercise personal leadership.

Which program would your students benefit from most?

Youth Facilitator Training Program

Social Innovation Week

Learn more about each of our program offerings below!

Community Impact + Leadership Program

Duration: 2-5 days
Program Themes: Leadership, Community Building, Empathy

We will empower students to build their leadership capacity through an empathy-based approach. Reflecting on school culture and their community’s well-being, student leaders can identify and apply solutions towards areas of growth within their own community.

Experiential ideation sessions to stimulate creative problem solving will be used to break the traditional pedagogy approach and diversify approaches to understanding and solving and complex, real-world problems on a personal, school, and global level.

KEY OBJECTIVES:

• Understand the meaning of leading in service of others and promote tangible skills for actionable leadership
• Cultivate knowledges of the importance of empathy and use of storytelling as a tool to lead in the 21st century.
• Introduce the design thinking process by applying the process while participants examine areas of growth within their school community.

Global Citizenship Program

Duration: 2-7 days
Program Themes: Global Citizenship, Design-Thinking, Social Innovation

Promote a clear understanding of global citizenship by introducing and clarifying what it looks and feels like at your school and in your community. This week will offer concepts, resources, models and methods on global citizenship to be adapted, modified and owned by your institution.

As a baseline training for educators, students and parents, this program supports individuals in adopting global citizenship as a core value and will set pathways and strategies for successful futures.

KEY OBJECTIVES:

• Analyze the concept of global citizenship at a personal, local, and global level and understand individual agency within one’s lived experience
• Collaboratively explore how to take small effective, meaningful, and sustainable action in our lives and communities
• Engage in community-building activities that strengthen the relationships among participants

Youth Facilitator Training Program

Duration: 2-7 days
Program Themes: Personal Discovery, Social Innovation, Empathy

Empower students to be effective facilitators. We create space for students to learn facilitation skills and how to put them into action at school and in their personal lives.

This program has been utilized by our partners to support student leaders in club leadership, orientation, and more. Participants will acquire valuable skills that will serve them far beyond their years in school.

KEY OBJECTIVES:

• Equip student leaders with models and tools to confidently facilitate activities, with a strong frame and debrief, for their community
• Build a community of support between student leaders through personal reflection, communication skills and a culture of “feed forward”
• Design educational experiences using the Five Foundations of Facilitation with targeted learning outcomes

Leadership Training Program

Duration: 2-7 days
Program Themes: Leadership, Personal Discovery, Social Innovation

Filled with fun and thought-provoking activities to help Grade 4-12 students identify their own leadership style, this program has proven successful outcomes for our partner schools.

Students will leave with new knowledge to boost their self-awareness, confidence and leadership skills. This program is great for building leadership capacity amongst student groups beyond what exists in the traditional student council, service groups, and sports teams.

KEY OBJECTIVES:

• Build on students’ leadership strengths and identify areas of growth while exploring the concept of collaborative leadership
• Equip students with strategies and skills to engage with, and mobilize, the school community to create positive social impact
• Increase awareness of one’s agency in complex issues on- and off-campus

Social + Emotional Wellbeing Program

Duration: 2-7 days
Program Themes: Leadership, Personal Discovery, Social Innovation

This program aids in the development of self-awareness and empowers students with the appropriate skills to act as inspiring leaders of growth and change in their school community. Rooted in an understanding of both self and others, students will be challenged to explore their own personal values, strengths, and challenges.

By the end of the program, participants will have grown closer as a community and will leave with a set of tools that will enable them to be strong leaders with personal confidence and tangible skills.

KEY OBJECTIVES:

• Build an understanding of the importance of empathy while being a leader in the 21st century and how to our lived experiences are a tool for connection
• Explore personal values, strengths, and challenges and how they relate to identity, belonging, and community
• Equip students with social-emotional tools to authentically engage with their peers and self

Social Innovation Week

Duration: 5-7 days
Program Themes: Social Innovation, Global Citizenship, Community Building

During the Social Innovation Week, students will have an opportunity to explore the concept of ‘’making a difference’’ through Global Citizenship, Sustainable Development Goals, and Design thinking.

They will explore issues in their community and begin to identify personal passions. Students will be grouped into small working teams organized by the SDG’s. They will gain exposure to organizations embarking on grass roots initiatives in relation to their assigned SDG’s to understand the best approaches to addressing social, economic, and environmental issues.

KEY OBJECTIVES:

• Build an understanding of the importance of empathy while being a leader in the 21st century and how to our lived experiences are a tool for connection
• Explore personal values, strengths, and challenges and how they relate to identity, belonging, and community
• Equip students with social-emotional tools to authentically engage with their peers and self