The Confluence LLC and Rivers and Birds are collaborating again to offer a "Youth Leadership Program" this summer in Taos, New Mexico. For further information on program details, click here and request program details.
Introduction
“Get up stand up, stand up for your life” – Bob Marley
- Who am I?
- What do I want to be when I grow up?
- How do I become the leader of my life?
Youth today face uncommon pressures to perform, to conform, to take responsibility, and to make important, life-changing decisions at an early age. As they are asked to select a life-path, school, a job, a future for themselves, they are also inundated with advice.
Cultivating Your Leadership Potential offers a new possibility for walking into the world. This dynamic program helps youth learn how to manage themselves in the midst of change and chaos and how to manage conflict.
Participants develop self-knowledge, self-respect, and self-confidence; and create a set of practices that support them in taking responsibility for their lives – to become their future. The opportunity to flourish in life comes from the development of leading a life of choice. Participants grow into young adults ready to take effective action toward a positive future.
As a participants they will learn:
- To manage yourself and stay grounded in stressful situations
- To recognize your strength and capacity
- To have an awareness of the effects of your mood and how to shift your mood
- To take a stand for what you know is right and for the good of the community you live in
- To make good choices and create success
- To say “NO” even when uncomfortable
- To fulfill on promises when you say “YES”
- To hold yourself with dignity
The program activities enable participants to get to know themselves and each other, to create an environment of safety and respect, to acknowledge differences, and to work together effectively. To sustain new behaviors learned, additional support is provided following the three interactive days of training in the form of group coaching (twice a month for 3 months.)
Facilitator
 Janur Yasa is a strategic partner in The Confluence LLC, a leadership development organization located in Taos, NM. Native to Bali, Indonesia, Yasa embodies Eastern philosophy blended with Western lifestyle. He teaches courses for youth and adults at the Strozzi Institute for Personal Mastery and Leadership. Yasa is a Leadership Coach certified by the Strozzi Institute, based in Petaluma, CA.
Yasa’s life experience includes working with teams and groups in cooperative settings in the USA and Asia. Yasa has embarked on the mission of empowering younger generations in Indonesia with hope for the future by launching the Leadership Dojo™ internationally. He’s passionate about helping young people declare and achieve their life goals to make this world a better place to live. Currently residing in the American Southwest, Yasa loves outdoor activities and protecting wild places. Always ready for an adventure, he is moving down the path to become a black belt in Aikido. Contact Yasa at 575.758.3397 or yasa at theconfluence.com
 Renée Gregorio is a widely published poet and an accomplished aikidoist who blends her expertise in these domains in her work as a somatic coach. She has also worked in corporations for many years as a technical writer and editor, and for the New Mexico state legislature for the past 17 years. She helps clients contact their creative wellspring, through the body and through language, to deepen their voices, expression, and power, leading to increased aliveness, strength, vision, and purpose in their writing and their lives. She is the founder of the poetry dojo™, a transformative environment in which participants build capacity in their bodies to allow for a more authentic and powerful presence to emerge. Renée has a master's degree in creative writing from Antioch University, London. Her published books include The Skins of Possible Lives (1996), The Storm That Tames Us (1999), Water Shed (2004), Road to the Cloud's House (2008), and Drenched (forthcoming, 2009). She is co-founder of Tres Chicas Books, a publishing collective.Contact information:
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 Robyn McCulloch is the principal of The Confluence LLC, a leadership development and consulting organization founded to cultivate strong leaders. Robyn's skillful integration of embodied leadership practices and Appreciative Inquiry has created a unique coaching approach for leaders looking to create sustainable change, revitalize teams, mobilize whole systems in citizen-led change, or facilitate action-learning processes. She has worked effectively in multiple cultural contexts from Southeast Asia to Europe to North America with executives, high-performing teams, social entrepreneurs, environmental advocates and small business leaders. Robyn's accomplishments include guiding a sustainable development initiative with the government of Aruba, coaching a film company's executive team and workforce through a change management process in the Philippines, leading a successful start-up in Bali, Indonesia and developing a leadership coaching offer for managers at Sandia National Laboratories. Robyn is a Master Somatic Coach, Sr. Associate and teaching staff member at Strozzi Institute. She is also certified as an Executive and Organizational Coach by the Hudson Institute and an active member of the International Coaches Federation. |
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