YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS

TAKE AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY AND GROWTH

Take part in a tailored educational and regenerative field trip at one of our beautiful campuses, immersed in nature, surrounded by like-minded peers and led by inspiring mentors and certified teachers.

Our weeklong, overnight leadership programs are part of our emerging leaders curriculum. They are designed to work with youth and help cultivate their inner leadership qualities while at the same time give them a powerful, life changing, inspiring, fun, healthy experience in nature.

Leadership education programs take place in Ontario, Canada at our Riverstone Campus and in Perth-Andover, New Brunswick at our Pathsaala Campus.

We can deliver these unique educational programs for as young as 11 years old up to adults.

With these Leadership Programs we work organization to organization. Organizations and community groups bring their youth participants to us along with their own youth supervisors.  Types of groups that come to us on a regular basis are Indigenous youth groups, Non-profit organizations serving Inner City Youth, Student Council Groups, University and College Groups, and more.

Every program is custom built to match the needs and educational outcomes of the partner group. They are non-profit and there to serve the non-profit youth community. Many of the organizations we serve return annually. For some we fundraise collaboratively or are able to provide resources through grants, enabling organizations to bring groups back year after year.

Engage in skill building workshops, cultural experiences and leadership development, not to mention, a whole lot of fun activities. At the heart of each program is education while empowering youth to find their voices, articulate their needs and contribute to their communities.

OUR DYNAMIC AND CAREFULLY CURATED educationally focused leadership programs ARE FULL OF UNIQUE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES!

Here are the types of activities you can expect:

  • Learn new skills, discover new passions.
  • Develop and share your unique voice in art, digital media, and more.
  • Tour the universe in our state-of-the-art telescope observatory.
  • Work alongside amazing chefs and learn to cook amazing dishes over an open fire.
  • Go foraging in our gardens and harvest produce to prepare your own meals.
  • Birding and art workshops.
  • Leadership and team-building skills.
  • Beekeeping and honey workshops.
  • Maple syrup making.
  • Build meaningful and lasting friendships and relationships.
  • Campfires, yoga, journalling, cooking workshops, hiking, paddle making, giant bubble soccer, learn to grow food.
Girl making bread outdoors

ENERGY FIELD TRIPS

What you can expect during an Energy Field Trip:

  • Get charged with hands-on core programming surrounding renewable energy and electricity as environmentally focused outdoor activities.
  • Bring your youth to the best science center around with all hands-on science activities teaching fundamentals in electricity.
  • Experiment with solar panels, solar cars, wind turbines, water power generators
  • Make your hair stand up with Van Der Graaff generators and learn about static electricity.
  • Turn yourself into a human light bulb and understand current electricity.
  • Build working model light bulbs.
  • Measure energy consumption of appliances.
  • Use our bike pedal generators to power lighting effects, make fruit smoothies, and even power an ice cream machine!
  • Look at energy of the future with Hydrogen cells and more.
  • Take apart a fuel cell and rebuild it understanding its inner workings.
  • Install a working solar system on a building.

AT THE HEART OF EACH PROGRAM IS INSPIRING YOUTH PARTICIPANTS TO DEVELOP THEIR UNIQUE VOICE AND BECOME CONTRIBUTORS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING…

The entire experience has stimulated our students with an improved sense of maturity, as well as a heightened awareness of belonging to a larger community… As their teacher, I did notice that the connections that were created during the organized activities impressed each individual teen alike. Their perception of differences and similarities between Cree Indigenous adolescents living in a remote northern community and teens residing in a rural southern location of Canada came into focus during the week -long event. After all the sharing, laughter and deepened connections, there appears to be a clearer definition of identity along with a broadened refinement of world view for each teen. ~Teacher

Experiences not only depend on the place or the program itself, but also on the people with whom you interact. In my case, I really enjoyed the experience, simply the fact of changing my routine and learning new things made it wonderful for me, although I have difficulty with English, I am advancing step by step and I am very grateful for the opportunity to have been able to be there. ~Participant

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Durham, Ontario
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