SCHOLARS OF PROMISE- Education that's off the beaten path
Winter- Boston/Costa Rica: Multicultural Women's Village
A ten day program designed to give women from high schools and colleges, between the ages of 17-25 years the necessary skills, attitudes and knowledge to become culturally competent and socially aware global citizens. The experience will use the three part Village model with a mixture of residential and non residential experiences. In days 1-4 Villagers will take part in experiential workshops. Days 5-8 we will travel as a group to complete the foreign Joint Community action project. One day 9 the entire Village will have the common community reflection and the last day, day 10 will be used for evaluations.
January to April- Resolution Solution
A non residential program to enable persons in the local community an opportunity to enhance and build necessary life skills which they need to succeed in their various life roles (student, friend, community member,family member, colleague).
This is a 30-hour workshop that will give particpants the broad knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in their multiple life roles. The course/workshop explores the causes of conflict and personal conflict styles, communication and assertion skills, peace building strategies through trust building, cooperation and mutual respect, forms of violence encountered and learning to prevent violence, dynamics of power and the faces of oppression. It involves practical skill building through experiential workshops, a service learning project to enhance cooperative skills and the opportunities to engage in dialogues.
Summer-MULTICULTURAL VILLAGE GLOBAL/ BENIN WEST AFRICA
A three week Mission Village for students who want to get a longer, indepth overseas experience. We have partnered with a small parish in Calavi, Benin called St. Bakhita to work with Fr. Augustine Houessinon to help him develop his community and assisst with giving the youth in his community a safe place to gather for learning and worship. One of the highlights of the visit will be a tour to "The Gates of No return" the place where slaves were captured and placed on slave ships for the TransAtlantic voyage. This Slavery Tour will help to teach the skills of empathy and serve as a powerful tool to address oppression, privilege, powerand structural blindness.
Alternative Spring Break- Break to remember
We can plan residential or non residential programs to enable high school and college students to have a memorable spring break filled with skill building, service and dialogues. This will be designed to enhance and build on classroom learning. It gives students an opportunity to see their learning come alive. It also is a fun way for high schoolers to get their community service hours done. Contact us to plan a memorable experience for your students.
Freshman Orientation: Creating Common Bonds across College divides
Many college freshman come to college with diverse experiences, values and backgrounds. These differences are often over emphasized and can be a source of unwanted and unnecessary conflict on campus. We help incoming freshman to focus on common bonds and to negotiate the divides. We do this by providing them with an opportunitiy to gain skills and knowlege to help them negotiate experiences that cause conflict. We also allow them to explore and discuss in a safe space issues of identity, ability, anger, fears and expectations. We allow them to do a service activity that helps to build collaborative skills and form a common identity as students of OurCollege. These orientations are done in a residential retreat setting and can last for 3 days to 1 week.