YouthMAX is a youth leadership curriculum, designed to give today’s young people practical tools and ideas to help them navigate life in four key areas.

1. Stand Up & Be Counted (Stop Bullying) – Teaches 3 ways to deal with bullying in a positive, affirming way. Stand Up – be confident in your own value. Lift Up – use your influence to help others.  And Pick Up – help others who are being bullied by picking them up.
2. Learning to Fail Forward to Success teaches that failure is the foundation for all success and helps youth understand how to learn from failure, change and grow toward success.
3. Developing a Positive Self-Image teaches both the value of confidence and practical ways to develop and maintain a positive self-image.
4. Developing Strong Personal Character teaches how to choose positive daily decisions that will help youth align their actions with their values and learn to achieve lasting personal success.

When young people are challenged to grow and become leaders, they respond. YouthMAX provides both the challenge and guidance, showing how they can improve their lives and positively influence their peers.

This event is free and open to all children and youth groups, ages 15-25.  The program runs for 2-3 hours and is ideal for 20 to 50 participants.

iChoose program is comprised of 16 lessons spread out over four units with the goal of helping teenagers learn leadership values and teaching them how to apply them to their own lives from leadership expert John C. Maxwell.

These values are recognized by some of the largest and most successful companies in the world. iChoose was designed to provide students with an environment for leadership values to be introduced, practiced, and shared.

Because many of today’s teenagers equate leadership with position, abuse of power, bribery, and corruption, few young people have a healthy and correct understanding of what leadership is and how they can apply it to their lives and the lives of others.

John C. Maxwell has partnered with educational institutions around the world to produce this program and reverse the negative portrayal of leadership. This program offers a desirable portrait of leadership based on values that can be applicable to a student’s life — values that teenagers can admire, implement, and choose to aspire to for a more positive and sustained style of leadership.

All four sessions will be facilitated in small groups of 4-8 people.  The teaching method of small groups is very simple but highly effective. Small groups employ two-way communication in an empowering environment. Values are not taught; they are explored. During a small group, each person participates and some are given the chance to lead, but all students share from their own experience. As a result, everyone grows together.