Young Adult + Teen Confidence Workshop! Hard to believe? Read on.
This workshop is based on the award-winning adult confidence workshop, top-rated by leaders from Google, Facebook, Hewlett Packard, Doctors Without Borders and more.
- 90% interactive
- Small groups (max 10)
- Lots of personalized feedback
- Expert facilitators
- Tools to look – and feel – confident that can last a lifetime
What is the workshop like?
- Each participant practices 12 simple tools to look and truly feel confident – despite fear or circumstance. These young adult and teen self esteem tools build on each other to bring out the best, authentic confidence. The best news: Participants in these youth development programs report that this learned confidence often becomes real.
CONFIDENCE BUILDS JOY + OPENS DOORS.
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2 Workshop Options
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FORM A GROUP: We come to your location.
Create your own group – or call on a local school, faith group, teen center)
2 options:
- Option 1: LIVE VIRTUAL FACILITATION for your private group via Zoom/Teams. Cost: Similar to single-seat pricing.
- Option 2: ONSITE at your location using COVID-Safe practices. Cost for onsite youth confidence workshops: Our youth workshops are discounted more than 50% from our adult workshops. Costs over and above participant costs include travel and per diem costs for facilitator(s) and meeting facility/participant lunches; these costs may be waved if your group has access to a workable meeting space and participant lunches at no cost or your cost. Just ask.
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So Sorry: We do not offer public workshops where you can buy a single seat.
However, you can bring us ONSITE to your location with a PRE-FORMED GROUP. We’ll give you tips on finding others to join your teen or young adult. Contact us for tips on finding other teens/young adults in your area.
Here are some details about YOUR OWN WORKSHOP with a preformed group (Live Virtual or ONSITE AT YOUR LOCATION):
- Length of Workshop: 2 full days, consecutive (ex: Wed + Thursday, or Saturday + Sunday)
- Group Size: 8 – 10 for live virtual, 8 – 16 for onsite (you can have an effective group with 4 participants but we charge at a minimum of 8)
- Ages: 15 – 20 years (some age exceptions can be made; just ask)
- Genders: All, mixed, or single gender groups (ex: all young men)
- Cost: $925 per person (charged at a minimum of 8 whether or not 8 attend) plus travel/per diem for facilitator(s). We offer additional discounts for non-profits and some other groups. Includes teaching of concrete tools for looking and feeling confident despite fear or circumstance, personalized feedback from the CoFounders, professional workbook. Zero additional costs for meeting room (and participant lunches) if you can provide these at zero cost; many schools, churches, community centers will donate a meeting space.
- Delivery Method: LIVE ONSITE at your location – or LIVE VIRTUAL FACILITATION via Zoom (more effective than you’d think!).
- 90% Interactive
- Room Requirements (Simple, almost any room will do): Computer with LCD TV (or LCD projector and screen/wall), internet connection, chairs without fixed tables in front of them.
See the research.
Research Suggests that a sense of power:
- Lead us to approach rather than avoid challenges – and approaching leads us to feel more confident, optimistic – and happier.
- Improves performance.
- Improves the part of our brain that makes decisions.
- Improves the ability to self-regulate (so important for today’s youth).
- Increases authentic feelings of power-confidence.
- Enhances creativity.
- Boosts authenticity.
See the research for yourself.
Top-Rated. And research-based.
Small groups of only 12 participants ensures ample personalized coaching with each participant. We love what we do.
Confidence opens doors. The tools taught in this youth empowerment seminar are essential for life-long use in personal, social, academic and professional situations.
BENEFITS – Each participant learns tools to:
Radiate a confident, relaxed and vibrant presence – and it feels great!
Create buy-in with influential adults – and peers
Create credibility and trust with those in decision-making positions, including potential supervisors, decision makers and university officials
Be viewed as the ‘the cream of the crop’ and – therefore – it’s more likely you’ll be chosen for limited opportunities
Receive solo attention and personalized feedback from the instructors to clear your insecurity ‘tells’ (we all have them) and then correct these with tools to radiate a solid, confident presence
Develop rapport easily with anyone, including adult leaders and peers
Identify one’s own habitual negative thinking habits (we all have them), then transform these into positive thinking habits that allow you to reach your goals
Build mutually-supportive connections with other participants; this training is profoundly supportive (no one is criticized or left out
Experience the extraordinary benefits of Video Feedback Training (most of us are nervous about healthy risk taking initially, but leave feeling profoundly grateful for the lessons) included in this youth training program
Research Based. See the research.
CONFIDENCE OPENS DOORS.
Are these workshops just for those without confidence?
These self-esteem progr
ams for young adults + teens are for everyone, including generally well-adjusted teens and young adults – and for those who are struggling with confidence.
After all, who doesn’t want to look and feel a bit more confident?
What are you waiting for? These leadership training programs for youth offer concrete tools useful in everyday life.
Tell me more – What does it feel like to be there?
Cream of the Crop Leaders’ youth empowerment program participants repeatedly practice physical, verbal, non-verbal and relational confidence indicators. The result of this healthy risk taking?
First, participants begin to truly feel confident. What a boost! Confident people are more likely to approach the challenges that make life meaningful and successful.
- Everyone begins rooting for the others (wait until you see this!). This is because everyone has strengths that others don’t have – and everyone is trying to get to the same goal: a confident, radiant presence.
- We practice via solo, pair, small group and large group exercises. Everyone is paired with multiple partners, so it’s an opportunity to make new friends.
- Once we share the tools, it becomes fascinating watching others’ solo practice. This is because by watching others, it quickly becomes apparent which behaviors add to confidence and which detract.
- Each participant will forever have tools to radiate confidence and competence – and they’ll know how to engage anyone, even when nervous – especially with ongoing practice (which we strongly recommend).
What are you waiting for?
These youth development programs build young adult + teen confidence step-by-step!
Based upon our award-winning adult confidence workshop, we teach tools for good power, confidence + happiness. Tools to use forever.
‘THE RULES FOR WORK ARE CHANGING. WE’RE BEING JUDGED BY A NEW YARDSTICK: Not just by how smart we are or by our training or expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other. This yardstick is increasingly applied in choosing who will be hired and who will not, who will be let go and who retained, who passed over and who promoted.’ – Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., Psychologist, author, and expert on social-emotional intelligence
Based upon our award-winning adult confidence workshop, we teach tools for good power, confidence + happiness. Tools to use forever. In highly-interactive small-group sessions, Cream of the Crop Leaders’ youth empowerment program participants repeatedly practice physical, verbal, non-verbal and relational confidence indicators.
Our teaching methods are highly interactive, and create muscle memory for cumulative, lifelong benefits.
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Learning through Doing is our instructional credo. Highly-focused instruction is given only briefly (10%) followed immediately by active application (90%). This means that participants are up, engaged, and actively internalizing their newfound confidence. Building confidence in teens and young adults happens best when participants practice confidence tools, not just read about them.
Teaching tools and techniques, all designed to keep our participants actively engaged, include: Dyad exercises (working with one other person), Video Feedback (film and group review of how one presents themselves), small group exploration, multimedia presentations, instructor feedback, giving and receiving of peer feedback, large group sharing and discussion, and real-world application exercises. Active engagement works! Cream of the Crop Leaders utilizes these and other highly-successful teaching methods to build muscle memory and develop new brain-neural pathways (see research), setting the stage for a lifetime of proactive responses to avoidance and adversity.
Profound, lasting change occurs readily in a safe atmosphere. Our Lead Instructors’ instructional and coaching styles – honed after years of facilitating professional and transformational trainings – cultivate warmth, connection, laughter, a few tears and, above all, authenticity. Mutual-support and zero-tolerance for nonconstructive criticism (including self criticism) are promoted. Soon, even the most nervous of the youth development program participants will likely enjoy learning.
Confidence affects everything.
View updated research on our Research Page.
Check out our 1- Minute Video.
We’re all scared. That’s because we simply haven’t been taught confidence tools.
Boys and Young Men:
Many young men want to take charge, and testosterone supports these natural leadership tendencies. Yet, males are also subject to confidence-eroding societal messages. Advertisements that reflect society’s definition of “masculinity” focus on abnormally muscular bodies and stoic facial expressions. Maintaining this aura of impenetrability confuses young men, since it is in opposition to the natural human experience, creates stress, and prohibits the kind of connected, healthy relationships that are key to a successful, joyful and meaningful life.
Therefore, few boys are aligned with their authentic inner power. Without this, they lean toward bravado/bluster and accompanying destructive behavior patterns, including:
- Power over others rather than power within themselves
- Power without connection or vulnerability
- Gangs and bullying
- Drugs and substance abuse
- Anxiety and depression
Girls and Young Women:
Our world benefits from strong females. Yet, when females manifest leadership traits, we tend to punish them for it. They walk a tightrope between likability and respect. Check out this fantastic video that illustrates the fine lines that constrict females.
Criticized as “conceited” if confident and “bossy” if leader-like, mixed societal messages leave our young women holding back their natural confidence (at best) and developing maladaptive behaviors such as:
- Eating Disorders: 78% of girls under 17 are unhappy with their bodies
- Girl Bullying: Catty behavior and social exclusion
- Substance abuse
- Anxiety and Depression
- Habits of avoiding challenges