Igniting the Purpose, Power, and Possibility of Youth Worldwide

It’s a Whole New World“Creativity is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. --Sir Ken Robinson

“Creativity is the single most important leadership competency for enterprises facing the complexity of global commerce today.”

--IBM survey of 1500 CEO’s

“The keys to the kingdom are changing. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a different kind of mind: creators and empathizes, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people—artists, inventors, designer, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers—will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”

--Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind

1996: The First Creative Community Arts/Empowerment Camp

1. Creative Confidence

Creative expression is most often accompanied by a feeling of shimmering joy. –Psychologist, Rollo May

2. Kindness

Kindness Safety Taking Creative Risks Self Confidence

3. Self-Care Inner Development

Mindfulness in the Classroom

★More Kindness★Better Math Scores★Fewer ADHD Symptoms★ More Self-Control★ Less Depression★ Improved Focus

4. Belief in Inner Wisdom

“A young person is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lit.” --Plutarch, 100 AD

5. Abiding Faith in the Meaning of Life

“As we get older, we tend to get more pessimistic. We must take care to not steal hope from the younger generations.” --Chief Oren Lyons vision keeper of the Onandagan Nations

Why Hope…

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we remember those times where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act.

“And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

--Howard Zinn