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Emotional Intelligence & Personal Growth for Teens

This Class meets 3x a week for one week only. Teenagers engage in self-discovery and personal growth activities to learn how to identify their own values and develop personal leadership skills.
Christy D. Nichols, MA
Average rating:
4.8
Number of reviews:
(23)
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What's included

3 live meetings
2 hrs 15 mins in-class hours
Assessment
There are a few self-assessments within this curriculum. At the end of the program, learners are able to feedback to any changes they can see in themselves, new habits they have successfully committed to, or goals they may have reached.

Class Experience

The sessions in the "Self-Discovery & Personal Growth for Teens " follow a structured curriculum, with built-in concepts and strategies that help teens understand their own needs, helps them to maintain a positive mindset through gratitude and build confidence to overcome fears.

Each workshop teaches empowering techniques to build confidence, connect more authentically with others, and increase self-awareness, confidence, and how to live intentionally.

We begin each session by acknowledging our “Challenges & Victories”, where we look at recent victories and celebrate them, any challenges you have faced and what you learned, and then we look ahead at the goals you have set for yourself in the coming weeks. It's all about celebrating the wins, and learning from the challenges.

At the end of each session, you will have actionable takeaways you can immediately start using, along with accountability strategies to keep you focused, supported, and on track.

THIS COURSE INCLUDES:

3 Fifty-minute online workshops
Delivered live to small groups
3 workshops per week for 1 weeks

Constructive workshops on personal growth and social mindfulness skills are catered to current needs in a time of working (and learning) from home.

Structured workshops tap into self-awareness skills to inspire teenagers and young adults to navigate real-life and online social situations with confidence and mindfulness.

In-class techniques and take-aways to integrate into real-life situations

YOU CAN EXPECT TO:

Improve communication & effective collaboration at school, home, or online
Be inspired
Boost your self-confidence
Navigate through social challenges with confidence
Strengthen people skills
Recognize your own behavior patterns
Tap into your personal values and understand how to live up to your values in your day-to-day
Build and engage with an authentic and helpful community
Acknowledge and leverage your personal achievements
Identify your personal strengths through critical thinking and self-assessment
Learn how to create a daily practice of gratitude to strengthen your mindset
Recognize your patterns and learn to make better decisions that move you through social circumstances mindfully
Create a strategy for continual learning and habit-building
Learn how to overcome fears and anxieties


THE  TOPICS:

CLASS 1

Topic: Identifying and connecting with your core values to help you make good decisions.

Results: Learn which values create your best and happiest experiences in life.  You’ll understand how to easily create more of these "best" experiences and meaningful moments by intentionally honoring your values, and eliminating experiences that suppress what is truly important to you.

(Exercises in identifying the values and how to purposely make choices and actions that demonstrate these value).

CLASS 2

Topic: The Power of Gratitude to build a positive mindset.

Results: Learn to immediately build positive habits into your life that help you practice gratitude. We'll do a few prompts to think about the wide variety of things to be grateful for, and how gratitude can combat anxiety, fear and depression. 

(A practice in gratitude exercise, complete with immediately actionable steps practice gratitude regularly and fully.)

CLASS 3

Topic: Raising your confidence and overcoming fears, worries, and anxiety.

Results: Learn 8 ways you can dispel fears, limiting thoughts and worries, and move through and out of anxiety.
(The role motivation plays with our fear, as well as understanding where fear actually comes from and the emotions we feel when we’re afraid, and how to navigate out of this stage).

Learning Goals

These classes will help you understand your own behavior patterns and learn how to make choices with intention.  If you seek to boost your self-confidence, identify values that are important to you, and connect and build meaningful connections, these workshops are for you.

Learn how to communicate your ideas, emotions, needs, and expectations with ease and confidence.

You’ll also discover your own style of communication, such as how you read others, how you interpret and accept information, and how you send information out and voice your needs.
learning goal

Other Details

Supply List
Students will need to take notes, preferably handwritten with paper and pen in a journal. Otherwise, an electronic device is just fine.
Language of Instruction
English
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined April, 2020
4.8
23reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Non-US Teaching Certificate in English/Language Arts
My professional education expertise has afforded me the opportunity to work all over the world. Since achieving a Masters Degree and Teaching Credentials in Sussex, England, I have delivered educational and leadership initiatives internationally to individuals in the UK, Europe, Cambodia, Thailand, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Costa Rica, South Africa, Canada, the USA, and Australia. After successfully creating and developing EDventure International, an organization combining leadership development, education, and conservation projects overseas, I launched Venture Within. Venture Within delivers transformational experiences in self-discovery, mindfulness. My passion is creating transformational experiences for personal and professional growth through overseas immersion, coaching, and mentoring workshops, and adventurous experiences abroad. 

HIGHLIGHTS

Expert in leadership development amongst professionals
20 years an Educator, CEO of Venture Within, and EDventure International (high school, university, and young professionals)
Curated strategic leadership workshops catered for traveling professionals, with a focus on personal development and growth.
Utilizes cultural immersive experiences as transformative opportunities.
Specializes in transformative experiences that enhance leadership abilities on personal and professional levels.
Professional Credentialed Coach

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$66

for 3 classes
3x per week, 1 week
45 min

Completed by 99 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-18
2-12 learners per class

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