Light Up Your World®
is an organization dedicated to envisioning, training, equipping and releasing young people to make a positive difference in their world.
Light Up Your World sessions are available to be done virtually.
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Right now, a student's world may consist of their home, school, neighbourhood and extra-curricular activities.
They can begin now-right where they are- to impact their world and make it a better place. Now is the time!! A world changer understands that the choices they make (good and bad) affect not only their life but the world around them. LUYW® helps the student to discern how to make choices that will affect their life and the world around them in a positive way and it gives them the skills and tools needed to be a positive world changer.
The goals of Light Up Your World® are to:
• Impart value to every student
• Empower students to impart value to others
• Give students strategies on how to make a positive difference in their world
• Enable students to see themselves as world changers and to begin walking as a world changer NOW!
Lively
The Light Up Your World® workshops are very lively, challenging, and interactive. We use drama, games, media clips, small group activities, and many visuals in each session. Students are very quickly engaged.
Comfortable
Facilitators teach one classroom at a time for the purpose of keeping the environment safe and less intimidating for the students. The facilitator needs a double period (approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes) for each of the three sessions.
Light Up Your World® is a series of 3 significant workshops
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Although we also target the Grade 7 - 8 age group, it should be noted that LUYW® has been taught to people of all ages, including adults and in many different settings. The three workshops challenge the students in important areas of their lives at a very strategic time in their development.
It gets underneath the issues of bullying, low self-esteem, and intermediate's often incorrect perceptions of themselves and their value in this world. It teaches peer-mentoring and goal setting, empowering them to become world changers NOW!
About The Sessions
Testimonials
Students learned that they each had true value...
"The LUYW team was accepting and loving of all our students. Through this world changing curriculum, our students learned that they each had true value and were able to comfort and affirm fellow classmates’ values through the team’s empathy and assistance. They learned that by a simple illustration of planting a seed in good soil, they would bring forth a good harvest in their lives and change the world around them. Another example of their curriculum was when they used a comparison of light and dark to good and bad words/deeds to build a brighter world. We never imagined that Light Up Your World would change our lives and the lives of our students forever."
Foundational to building a climate of care and community...
“LUYW is foundational to building a climate of care and community in our school's intermediate division. Students reflect upon their own value and that of others and begin to ponder how their words and actions impact their classroom and their school. It is a powerful bonding exercise for students with one another and with their teachers as they open up and become honest about the things that really matter in relationships. I am very thankful to have had the opportunity to provide this amazing program to my students.”
An instrumental part of shaping the culture...
“Light Up Your Worldhas been an instrumental part of shaping the culture here in our Middle School. Students and teachers are touched by the messages and activities the program teaches. Not only through the course of the week, but through the entire school year changes in students behaviors are noticeable and teachers begin to look through different lenses as they see their students each day and strive to shine light into each child’s day. While the world is filled with darkness, here our students and teachers are shining the light as they soar to new heights.”