Lead Yourself Youth is about creating a standard for life that aligns self-awareness, empathy, integrity, service and the ability to take care of ourselves no matter how abundant or scarce local resources. The Lead Yourself Youth Curriculum integrates social, emotional and somatic learning in an environment of support & care. This is to facilitate the space for the development of self-care, self-awareness, empathy and coping. We are here to build a bridge that leads to rich dialogue about emotions, about moods that shape us & about internal dialogue that we all experience, yet feel isolated with at times. The capacity and competency to talk about and deal with fear, anxiety, loneliness, uncertainty, vulnerability, shame and grief can be difficult when we are told to be strong, be brave and be happy or when we are told not to cry, not to let things bother us and not to trust others.

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