Are you a leader?
Do you want to be a leader?
Do you want to practice and improve your leadership skills?
APPLY NOW: DEADLINE July 21, 2011
Space is Limited - First Come First Served
A Taste of College:
Youth Leadership Retreat*
Skill-Building and Application in Springfield, MA
8:30 am July 29 - 9:00 PM July 31, 2011
at UMass Amherst
This is your chance to take action to make Springfield a stronger city where all youth can excel. This is also a great opportunity for you to experience a taste of life on a college campus. This Retreat brings adult and youth facilitators together to coach each other into becoming better, more effective and successful leaders. Participants will explore questions such as:
- What are the environmental conditions for successful leadership?
- What are the warning signs of leadership failure?
- Is everyone a leader?
- When, and why, should leaders behave like a follower?
- Is leading about the leader, the group, or the goal?
- Do leaders work alone or with other leaders?
Issues that require leadership attract people with various motivations. "Leading" and "following" both involve dealing with hope & fear, belief & misunderstanding, shared and different histories, and a range of possible futures.
In order to focus attention and ground the learning experience, participants will take action by designing a series of Public Service Announcements on issues of common concern. Together, we will go through several crucial leadership steps, including:
- collecting and assessing what people know and don't know
- challenging and confirming ideas with evidence
- defining a shared vision for the future
- making connections between knowledge and skills, needs and limits
- designing action steps
- creating and assigning responsibility for evaluation of the outcome
The topics we'll discuss will include bullying, drugs, health, identity issues (culture, gender, language, race, religion, socioeconomics, etc), life chances.....
At the end of the Taste of College Retreat, participants will have learned new skills, made new friends, envisioned a future together, and taken steps to make it happen.
Download the Application Form (PDF)
Download Are You a Leader? Flyer (PDF)
Things You Need to Know
Questions? Email info@learningresiliency.com or visit the Things You Need to Know page to contact by phone.
Designed and Presented as a Learning Lab for ResiliencyTM
Co-sponsored by the Center on Communication for Sustainable Social Change
Funded by Youth First! and the Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
Fiscal Agent: New North Citizens Council, Springfield MA