Inspiring and Supporting

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Welcome

• Inspiring and Supporting
• Todays Youth As
• Citizen / Leaders

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What time is it ?

• A Time of
• Great Challenge
• A Time of Profound Potential
• Arthur Levine

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Fierce Urgency of Now

• We are now faced with the fact,
• my friends, that tomorrow is
• today. We are confronted with the
• fierce urgency of now. In this
• unfolding conundrum of life and
• history, there is such a thing as
• being too late.
• Miami Story
• If you knew

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What The Youth of Today Need

• Knowledge about the world in which they live.
• The skills to function in that world and to
  change it for the better.
• Efficacy as individuals and citizens.
• Responsibilities to others and for the future.
• Hope about the potential for tomorrow.

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Finding Their Voice

• Questions to guide
• discovery of their voice
• What are your passions?
• What makes you weep?
• What is your purpose on earth?
• What mission absolutely obsesses you?
• In what do you totally and absolutely believe?
• What are you utterly convinced can happen?

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Claiming our Voice

• Voice as purpose
• Voice as passion
• Voice as power
• Voice as identity
• But for what purpose
• Need for a new worldview

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Common Good

• Two aspects
• Fair and Democratic
• Noble and Civilized

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Citizenship and Stewardship

• Active and responsible member of the household?
• What is Stewardship?
• Oaks Story

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Another Gathering of Young People

• It is from these numberless and diverse acts of
  courage and belief that human history is shaped.
  Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or
  acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out
  against injustice, (s)he sends for a tiny ripple
  of hope, and crossing each other from a million
  different centers of energy and daring, these
  ripples build a current that can sweep down the
  mightiest walls of oppression and resistance...

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Values

• Peace
• Wealth
• Happiness
• Success
• Friendship
• Fame
• Authenticity
• Power
• Influence

• Integrity
• Joy
• Love
• Recognition
• Family
• Truth
• Wisdom
• Status
• Justice

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We need to claim our voices too.
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Transformational Leadership

• Change the
• status quo
• for the
• common good

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Costa Rican Miracle?

• Oscar Arias
• and
• Rebecca Greenspan

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When it comes to our Children

• We dont have a money problem
• We have a priority problem!

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Our Priorities

• Basic Education 10 B
• Water for children 15B
• Basic health 19 B

• Ice cream in US 16 B
• Perfume in the US 21 B
• US Military Budget 449 B

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Three Levels of Leadership

• Where National and International
• Through Law, Policy, Philosophy, Diplomacy
• Where Local and Regional
• Through Statue, Policy, Philosophy, Partnerships
• Where Everywhere (leadership, l)
• Through Values, Conscience, Visions,
  Relationships

• Level I
• Level II
• Level III

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New Promise New Covenant

• Why Not Make
• Vermont
• the Most Hope-filled
• State
• for a
• Child to Be Raised

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Advice Someone Dancing
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Fostering Moral Courage

• What is courage?
• Where does courage come from?
• Courage is a virtue.

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Ambrose Red Moon

• Courage is not the absence of fear but the
  belief that something is more important than
  fear.

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Four Sources of Courage

• Experience

• Principles

• Community

• Spirituality