Character & Leadership Skills
Developing good character traits, personal values, and leadership skills for a successful & meaningful life
In this series we educate students about character traits, personal values, and leadership skills through stories, activities, games, interactive exercises, and discussions. We believe this learning is as critical and essential for students of all ages, as their academic and extracurricular learning, for it helps children develop real world problem solving, understand themselves and others, have a vision, know who they want to be, and their personal values. Further they learn how to become the person they want to be and look up to be, and their role as a citizen, and a leader, in building a community/society that nurtures and respects their personal and collective values, and vision.
The main intent is to provide a safe learning space, where students can test and validate their ideas, beliefs, problem solving skills, make mistakes, and develop a bigger, & broader perspective and life wisdom. Be it analyzing characters and morals in fairytales, fables, comics, or short stories; or analyzing social media debates, trends, news, or standing up for a cause; or making a difference with your own “drop in the ocean” contribution; or conducting with gratitude, integrity, kindness, and compassion; or envisioning changes & innovating products, services, & systems for a better world; – students learn, and practice valuable age appropriate life skills. Besides, each session is packed with fun, engaging, and interactive lessons, and activities bringing students to the classes with enthusiasm
Courses For 5-8 Years Old/Grades K-2
Little children explore, understand, and learn about good character traits, why it is important to have a good character by reading fables with morals, thinking, and reflecting on personal experiences, and engaging in discussions, fun activities and exercises in class. The idea is to deepen their understanding and reinforce the importance of good character traits and personal values. Further students learn the foundations of leadership by developing greater self understanding, the tools, and support they can avail from people around them (community), and what does it mean to be a good citizen who demonstrates care, consideration, & responsibility, and helps drive change in their community by making good choices and decisions.
45 minutes per class – 8 classes per session
once a week for 8 weeks or twice a week for 4 weeks
Live Session Format: Here is a representative flow of the live class:
- Interactive, teacher driven lesson time using multimedia content – 10-15 minutes
- Hands on activities, exercises, games – 15-20 minutes
- Discussions, review and wrap up – 10 minutes
My Good Character Traits
Children explore fundamental character traits through fables, fairytales, & short stories. We read, narrate & illustrate popular and interesting stories, learn about character traits such as honesty, kindness, humility, courage, responsibility, discipline and more.
We engage children in a variety of activities like making posters, charades, creating comics, superheroes, role plays, games and more; deepening their understanding & reinforcing their learning with practice in each session.
The Leader In Me
Children look within to identify their strengths, accomplishments, thoughts and emotions and self management strategies. Further they learn and practice making good choices and decisions, develop community understanding and what does it mean to be a good citizen, and a good leader.
Each session engages children in many practice activities in fun and interactive ways, while making the learning highly relevant and sticky. Further they discuss, ideate, validate, and problem solve as a group.
Children reinforce their learning by cultivating habits, applying tools and strategies and practicing skills, thus paving their path to leadership.
My Values & Role Models
This class features real world role models and the values they live by – teaching children all about the importance of values and how they help us live joyful and heartful lives.
Children will get to know about the values & journey of inspirational role models in a way that is engaging and relatable by reading their stories, watching videos, playing games, art and craft and related activities in each class.
At the end of the session, learners develop greater sense of belonging, purpose and, perspective. They feel inspired to explore and engage with curiosity and joy in everything.
Character, Values, & Leadership - Combo class
In the combo class children learn about character traits, personal values and leadership qualities, in interactive ways using videos, books, fables, & short stories. Further they deepen their understanding in many fun and engaging activities, that make them go within and understand themselves – their thoughts, opinions, values and strengths.
In each class, children practice, and reflect on what they have learned through writing, art and craft exercises, and games. By taking a closer look at inspiring real and fictional characters, children begin to comprehend the importance of character traits, personal values and leadership skills and how they all play together in making life joyful and purposeful for ourselves and others.
My Good Character Traits
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
The Leader In Me
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
My Values & Role Models
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
Character, Values, & Leadership - Combo class
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
Courses For 8-11 Years Old/Grades 3-5
The courses in this section focus on the following 4 aspects of character and leadership skills:
Self Understanding & Self Improvement: developing deeper understanding of their own thoughts, feelings, strengths, personal values, and beliefs and developing habits & learning strategies to become better versions of themselves.
Leading Self: setting smart personal goals, adapting growth mindset, learning habits, attention, focus, planning, organization, and discipline & strategies to track and achieve goals. Understanding success, and the important learnings of failure and mistakes.
Collaborating with others: Developing interpersonal and collaborative skills – like resolving conflicts, understanding and accepting another point of view, effective verbal & nonverbal communication, self advocacy, standing up for self and others, recognize and respect different cultures and identities.
Becoming a good citizen/leader: Develop basic understanding of the collective – decision making, structure, and organizations of various levels (local, state, national, regional & global) and duties & qualities of a good citizen, and what ways can you make a difference or influence the collective as an individual.
55 minutes per class – 8 classes per session
Once a week for 8 weeks or twice a week for 4 weeks
Live Session Format: Here is a representative flow of the live class:
- Interactive teacher led lesson introducing problems, strategies & methods -10-15 minutes
- Hands on activities, exercises, games – 20 – 30 minutes
- Discussions, review and wrap up – 10 -15 minutes
I Understand Myself
Children go within to better understand their personal beliefs, values, behaviors, decision making, strengths, habits, and choices through hands-on self reflection exercises, & games. They identify and understand how their thoughts, emotions, and past experiences impact their behavior, decisions, and choices.
Further they compliment their self understanding skills by applying self improvement/self help practices such as managing difficult emotions and worries, calming down with brain breaks, relating with others, cultivating helpful habits, and learning from their role models. We emphasize practice and application of skills through activities inside classrooms, and beyond to make their learning and understanding more effective & sticky.
I Can Lead Myself
The focus of this course is setting and achieving goals – teaching young children to lead themselves. Students learn planning, organization, defining & tracking goals, managing time, recognizing & using your strengths, focus and attention skills, and setting up for success strategies through many hands-on exercises and activities in class.
Further they learn how to process success, mistakes, & failure, celebrating small achievements along the way, and developing a growth mindset to try harder/new tasks, thus equipping themselves to lead self.
I Can Collaborate With Others
Children learn the nuances of collaborating and communicating with others and building relationships. They work on various classroom, playground and community scenarios – learning & practicing effective communication, positive attitude, cooperating with others, and resolving conflicts through a variety of interactive and engaging activities.
Further they get to know about different cultures and identities, and how to work with someone who is different from them. Children learn how to recognize and respond effectively to bullying, teasing, stereotyping using self advocacy, and kid power strategies.
I Can Make A Difference
In this course children explore several aspects, understanding many things about the collective/community at various levels (local, regional, national, global)- they learn in a very hands-on way about interdependence, various systems and its functioning, & the social structure of a community & what it means to serve those in need.
Our intent of this exposure is to enhance children’s understanding, clarity, social awareness, common sense wisdom, problem solving skills, and to learn by caring for others. Young children find the course to be highly inspiring & fun as they engage in this novel & essential learning through interesting exercises, games, play, & interaction.
I Understand Myself
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
I Can Lead Myself
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
I Can Collaborate With Others
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
I Can Make a Difference
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
Courses For 11-14 Years Old/Grades 6-8
In this series youngsters understand and nurture their authentic self and their innate ability to care and lead. They develop & practice critical skills and qualities, like conflict resolution, negotiation, empathy, self discipline, self advocacy, decision making, influencing, perseverance, & problem solving, while getting to know themselves better, through a variety of hands-on activities, and engaging exercises, and discussions in class. With an improved ability to set and manage goals & aspirations, and handle stress and a fine tuned understanding of personal values, strengths & beliefs, relationships, culture, identity, diversity, and inclusion – youngsters feel empowered to live and lead from the heart space
55 minutes per class – 8 classes per session
Once a week for 8 weeks or twice a week for 4 weeks
Live Session Format: Here is a representative flow of the live class:
- Interactive teacher led lesson introducing problems, strategies & methods -10-15 minutes
- Hands on activities, exercises, games – 20 – 30 minutes
- Discussions, review and wrap up – 10 -15 minutes
Who am I
As youngsters probe themselves with this question in several ways they develop clarity, understanding, and awareness about their thinking, emotions, values, beliefs, vision, strengths, decision making, choices, goals, attitude, perception, and most importantly what defines them and what they stand for.
In a safe, positive, interactive, and engaging classroom environment they each look closely at themselves in various contexts – facilitated by the learning exercises and teacher guidance. In the process they learn strategies to better their skills, improve their awareness, with intention, attention, focus and peer motivation.
My Leadership
Students put their leadership abilities to test and validate, and work on their approaches to problem solve in various real and imagined scenarios. They examine leadership styles, qualities of a good leader using real world examples.
Further youngsters practice essential leadership qualities such as listening, empathy, effective communication, playing to strengths, self discipline, supporting others, and seeking support when needed.
Youngsters participate with enthusiasm in class, and develop confidence in their abilities to lead and problem solve as they interact and engage with peers in interesting exercises. Students perceive the class experience as empowering and enriching.
Conflicts, Negotiations & Solutions
Students delve into conflicts and conflict resolution strategies using hands-on exercises and activities. They learn the art of negotiation and innovating solutions in real world scenarios. In the process they learn perspective taking, situational awareness, and understand the influence of individual beliefs, values, culture and identity with respect to conflict resolution, negotiation, and problem solving.
Youngsters approach a variety of problems in their immediate and larger contexts and work with peers to identify & understand conflicts, brainstorm solutions and debate the merits and demerits of their resolutions in class.
Making a Mark - My Influence
In this class youngsters study the great influencers of the world, their impact, and the qualities that drive them. Simultaneously they put that learning to their own context and probe into what influence and impact they would want to make in their immediate context – classroom/school/community or at a greater level, and why.
Youngsters engage in interesting self discovery exercises and learn, and practice skills and methods to realize their ideas and vision and make their mark. Student learn valuable skills and embrace qualities like managing goals, self discipline, persistence, perseverance, self awareness, and service as they engage in this fun and interactive course with peers.
Who am I
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
My Leadership
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
Conflicts, Negotiations & Solutions
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
Making a Mark - My Influence
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
Courses For 14 Plus Years Old/Grades 9 & Above
The teens & young adult character & leadership courses delve into multiple facets of great character & strong leadership traits and how the two interplay, balance, and support the individual. These courses provide a collective platform to understand, discuss, and figure out what effective leadership means in this day and age, where young people have numerous powerful platforms, that present new opportunities, and challenges to express themselves, to advocate for a cause, to influence, and to make an impact. Further they understand the importance of a strong character, and personal values to lead themselves and their communities as they step into new avenues of college, and career.
55 minutes per class – 8 classes per session
Once a week for 8 weeks or twice a week for 4 weeks
Live Session Format: Here is a representative flow of the live class:
- Interactive teacher led lesson introducing problems, strategies & methods -10-15 minutes
- Hands on activities, exercises, games – 20 – 30 minutes
- Discussions, review and wrap up – 10 -15 minutes
Personal Leadership - My Choices & Decisions
The intent and focus of this class is to help navigate the social, and emotional challenges, and stressors of high school life. This is a platform for young adolescents to share their pressing thoughts, passions, views, personal values, ideas, and talk about academics, school, friendships, career plans and more.
We work on stress and anxiety management strategies by bringing in self awareness and mindfulness practices. Each class we learn social skills like conflict resolution, dealing with bias, bullying, setting goals, managing expectations and more.
We engage in discussions, activities, games, and debates while learning and practicing social skills. Young people draw important lifeskill learning, stress and anxiety relief and incredible support in this group. Our highly trained instructors are experts at channeling youthful energy for creating positive and innovative spaces that offer support and ideas.
Personal Leadership - I am In Charge
As teens and young adults understand that they are responsible for setting and managing their own goals, balancing commitments, workmanship, handling situations, and processing consequences – they empower themselves with strategies to function effectively, with little stress in this class.
Youngsters probe their personal values & beliefs, know themselves more deeply, discover their strengths, and areas of growth and leadership acumen through many self reflection, and problem solving exercises while interacting and engaging with like minded peers
Community Leadership - Conflicts, Negotiations & Solutions
Students work on understanding conflicts, brainstorming possible short and long term solutions. They understand and learn the art of negotiation, and innovating solutions in real world scenarios as they engage in systematic problem solving in their immediate and larger contexts.
Further they gain broader perspective about individual and collective motivations, fears, sentiments, culture, and thinking that drives their actions and influences their decisions. They discuss, and brainstorm a variety of youth relevant problems, conflicts, and social situations in different domains and validate their understanding and practice problem solving.
Community Leadership - Communication, Culture & Inclusion
Youngsters engage their thinking and problem solving skills to understand the nature and impact of diversity in their immediate and larger communities. Further they learn about stereotypes, fairness, bias, prejudice and other factors that influence our choices, thinking, and decisions.
We take various in-person, and online social scenarios in which youngsters face or witness such situations and work out solutions that emphasize effective communication, collective values, & promote equity, and fairness to all. Students find these learning scaffolds highly relevant and useful to them as they are exposed to and expected to navigate a myriad of similar situations in real world.
Personal Leadership - My Choices & Decisions
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
Personal Leadership - Iam In Charge
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
Community Leadership - Conflicts, Negotiations & Solutions
8 Classes - 4 Weeks Session $49.99/-
