Next Step to Being the Change
Our Next Step to Being the Change workshop is a highly experiential, education, and personal growth workshop that provides participants with the inspiration, hope, and compassion we all crave as humans. Originally designed for educators and students desiring to keep the spirit of Challenge Day alive in their schools, our Next Step to Being the Change workshop has become a powerful communication and connection tool for relationships of all kinds.
Our compassionate approach to ending social oppression in schools, families, and communities provides diverse groups of teens and adults with an undeniable first-hand experience of group safety and personal connection. By building on the insights and connections created in the room, the Next Step to Being the Change Workshop sets a powerful stage for participants to examine a new philosophy for stopping violence and social isolation at all levels.
Introducing our simple three-step Formula for Change — Notice, Choose & Act, this workshop incorporates Challenge Day's group process and action-based model for socio-emotional learning education. Because we believe our role modeling is always our best teaching tool, our skilled facilitators powerfully share a wide range of life lessons and experiences that help create a backdrop for providing an in-depth analysis of the theory and practice behind Challenge Day.
By challenging participants to explore and heal their own experiences with social and internalized oppression in all areas of their life, the Next Step to Being the Change Workshop provides the insights and compassion participants need to truly Be The Change they wish to see in every area of their lives.
Participants must be able to attend all three days.
Program participants will:
- Increase interpersonal communication skills that contribute to an emotionally safe environment.
- Foster effective partnerships with teens.
- Network with educators, counselors, parents, and others who want to change the way we treat and educate our children and ourselves.
- Increase empathy and compassion for teen issues.
- Support the emotional health of young people in such a way that they are encouraged to learn and grow.
- Explore deeply their own experience of stereotyping, gender separation, and other forms of social oppression, and release the emotional blocks created by those experiences.
- Experience the honest expression of their own and others' emotions.
- Receive a program manual that includes games, activities, group skills, and classroom curricula that help in classroom facilitation and community building.