The youth who attend Youth On Purpose, USA come from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Some are straight-A students with a desire to improve their relationship with their parents. Others may be considered at risk youth with a challenged family background and are troubled by difficult circumstances in their lives.  We have a melting pot of youths who all come to work together and experience a true family, joining in a bond of a higher purpose.

The outline of the curriculum reads as follows:

1) an initial 12-day intensive residential workshop. Ratio of staff to youth is a minimum of 1:3

2) Two weekly support circles with peers and program leaders

3) Eight 3-day workshops over a ten month period. These workshops are intensive, 12 hour days facilitated by Sandy Levey-Lunden and a staff of highly trained assistant facilitators. Ratio of staff to youth is a minimum of 1:3.

4) Elder mentoring program, which includes 2 intensive 3-day trainings for senior mentors.

5) Weekly one-hour private sessions with support group leaders or staff as needed. Avaliable for the entire family.

6)Unlimited telephone and e-mail support from senior staff.

7) 1 or 2 day elective workshops offering a variety of skills like dance, music, art, theater, photography, computer skills, healing/massage. Workshops are initiated by youth and supervised by staff and certified teachers.

Workshops:

The Art of Personal Marketing finding the career you really want, how to reach goals to fufill that purpose, the meaning of success and how to get there, how to access your inner resources, and maintain high self-esteem. Choosing Freedom learn the 22 principles that will guide you in choosing freedom from anxiety, fear, and guilt. The Art of Surrender identify and release all limiting beliefs about love and relationships.

True Woman's Power / True Man's Power what myths do men have about women and women have about men? Learn to express the true inherent power of each man and woman. Understand the potential of expressing your masculinity and femininity. Understand the differences in evaluating success between men and women. The Art of Partnership investigate all relationships with special emphasis on relationships with parents, friends, significant others, and society. The Art of Joining a Family parents are invited to open the doors to deeper communication with their children, learn communication techniques to create understanding and complete joining between children and parents. The Art of Joining Siblings identify and release all projections on your siblings. release the limiting power of sibling rivalry to truly jion siblings. Dramatic and Artistic Component To balance the intensity of the sharing circle and to uncover additional channels for free and open communication, the youth each day are enthusiastically engaged in a process of dramatic expression. Each youth plays a role in the creation of a theatrical piece to b performed as a grand finale to the summer camp. Some sing, dance, or act. Others design backdrops, sets, or write scripts. Not one youth is left out, not one youth feels inadequate. Youths who would not set foot in a drama class at school amaze themselves with the depth of their involvement. The purpose of this component is to bring out aspects of each individual youth that may not otherwise be explored. Through completely releasing inhibitions to outrageous expression, the youths experience a freedom and sense of joining. The culmination of this self-directed and self-produced drama is the performance before an audience of parents, family, significant others, and the On Purpose Community Partners.

 

 

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