Milton Keynes & Bedford “Young People are our Future” - JUST 7 days to go - Update
WE NEED HUNDREDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES TO ATTEND THIS FREE EVENT
With JUST 7 days to go until the Young People are our Future events in MK & Bedford, I thought I would provide you all with an update of what's been happening...
Monday 14th November - Jury's Inn, CMK / Friday 18th November - Bedford School, Bedford
In the last couple of days I received yet another reminder of why this event is so important and WHY we have to provide our children with the right LIFE SKILLS to empower them with the skills to avoid a potentially dangerous situation. I pick up several calls a month from distraught parents who are trying to assist their children through a very difficult time normally to do with bullying.
On Friday, another call of this nature came my way, only this time the situation was every parents nightmare. A young 9 year old boy had been showing signs of being bullied for several months. His parents had approached the school where he attended where they received a lot of support from his teachers. Despite the school agreeing to deal with the situation promptly it seemed the bullies just changed their tactics and the situation gradually got worse.
His mother told me that despite trying on numerous occasions to deal with the situation and provide love and support, her son was noticeably falling into a depression which was increasingly becoming difficult to deal with.
She went back to the school on 5 separate occasions but found it very difficult to get any practical help. On Wednesday of last week, the young boy attempted to end the misery by consuming a large number of pills.
His mother told me that in just a few weeks he had changed from a confident, outgoing and friendly young boy who loved sport to a moody, reclusive individual who just wanted to be on his own and not eat.
We owe it to young people like this to provide them with the right LIFE SKILLS to deal with situations like these. Let's STOP talking about doing the right thing and actually get of our bums and start acting.
Join the hundreds of young people and their families at the Jury's Inn and Bedford School to help us demonstrate that some important issues can be dealt with in a fun and engaging way:- Issues which include, Confidence Building, Personal Safety, Positive Body Language, Professional Communication Skills and much more. Using the mediums of dance and music some key life skills will be taught to enable local young people to achieve all that they want to in life.
- There will be an exciting SINGING workshop where young people will be taught some basic skills, which will lead them into a HUGE sing-a-long.
Imagine several hundred people aged between 5 - 16 years all singing their hearts out.
- There will be an exciting DANCE workshop designed to get those young bodies active. Once again hundreds of young people will learn some basic
moves leading up to a HUGE dance-a-long.
- There will be a very important workshop on KEY LIFE SKILLS development. Young people will learn some important skills to increase their personal
safety and assist them in identifying and avoiding potentially dangerous situations such as being BULLIED.
- There will be performances from a few local stars who will blow you away with their singing and dancing talent
Other activities at the events include:
- A mini auction where FANTASTIC gifts donated by local companies will be sold to raise money for Children in Need
- A unique competition for young people to use their creative sides to deign powerful and inspiring posters on key issues such as bullying and safety
- A selection of local groups and clubs will be providing information on activities that young people can do
Special Guests include MK Lions who will be present giving out FREE tickets to their next home game.
To make this event even more exciting the whole experience is being filmed for TV. We want to capture the faces of hundreds of young people and their families singing, dancing and learning some important life skills. In addition to the film crew, we also have a professional photographer who will be present snapping away to creating some fantastic lasting memories of the event, which will be placed on the Life Skills web site and Flicker.
Listen to breakfast on Three Counties Radio on Wednesday 9th November to hear all about the event - 104.5 FM
A personal message from the event organisers
There is a huge amount of evidence today to suggest that young people are not being taught the correct life skills to provide them with the opportunity to become the best they can be. We have a growing number of young people who struggle to comprehend the difference between right and wrong and do not have the right core values to become respectable members of their communities.
So much negative press is created about the youth of this country and the term "Broken Britain" is growing momentum in certain circles. We feel the need to strike a balance and send a clear message to MP's and local Government that the majority of young people provide a fantastic contribution to society and that we CAN increase this number as we have the solution to providing every young person with a set of key life skills to increase their personal safety, reduce the chance of them becoming a victim to bullying and ultimately improve their self esteem and confidence.
Events like this one will clearly demonstrate that there is enough expertise and support within the local community to provide young people with a set of skills, which will enable them to set and achieve their goals so that they can comfortably become the next generation of business and community leaders.
We have the solution, now we need the support from the everyone including the business community to make young people the best they can be.
The Life Skills for Children course - Course Content
Young people are taught a set of valuable skills designed to empower then with the ability to be the best they can be.
Communication skills, personal safety awareness training, confidence building, presentation skills are just some of the modules young people experience with
Life Skills for Children.
To ensure all young people are equipped with the social and emotional skills, along with the necessary life skills to enable them to succeed in the community.
Life Skills for Children provides young people with:
- A flexible course in personal safety and communication
- A child friendly anti-bullying programme
- Target 5 - 11 / 11-16 year old children, all physical abilities
- A preventative measures programme
- A simple step by step tuition for children
- A better line of communication between Teachers, children and their parents
- A great behaviour management course
- A practical approach to good communication skills development in schools
Course Benefits
Practical and realistic tools for children to:
- Increase awareness of potentially dangerous situations
- Improve team building skills
- Develop the ability to set and achieve goals
- Improve communication and interpersonal understanding
- Builds self-confidence, self-discipline and respect for others
- Reduce the negative affects of BULLYING
- Measurable outputs from each session
Course Delivery System
This very effective personal development course for young people is taught to teachers in just 1 day. Teachers will experience the following:
- An introduction into the Life Skills for Children course
- Understanding Social Responisbilty
- Fringe Area Assessment (Awareness skills - How to assess and avoid a potentially dangerous situation)
- Colour Coding - (Mind Set Development Drills)
- Body Language Assessment and Proximics - (Understanding the different ways in which we send messages through negative and positive body language)
- Negative and positive profilers - (Understanding what information to provide people and how we create routines which are easy to follow)
- Be calm and Breath - (Stress management exercise)
- Tricks & Lures - (Internet safety to luring tactics)
- The Law made easy for young people
- Home study card system
- Course measurement system
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Gary Payne / Michelle Crook - Event Organisers
Please help us create an awareness of these events by placing the details and poster on your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages
THESE EVENTS ARE FREE TO ATTEND
Milton Keynes - Monday 14th November - Jury's Inn, CMK - Starts at 4 pm for 2 hours
Bedford Event - Friday 18th November - Bedford School, Erskine May hall, De Parys Avenue - Starts at 7 pm for 2 hours
Please contact gary@lifeskillsforchildren.co.uk for further information on how you can get involved and help local young people
Imagine several hundred young people and their families experiencing two hours of high energy activities and having FUN, whilst raising money for Children in Need. Its going to be FANTASTIC. These events are being filmed for TV so why not come in your school / group uniform or fancy dress
Help Us - The next few DAYS will be dedicated to the LAST BIG PUSH to get several hundred young people and their families to the events in MK and Bedford. We need your help to promote this event, so please direct as many people as you can to www.lifeskillsforchildren.co.uk / www.reactiv8.org.uk where they can download a poster of the events and find out more information.
We are specifically interested in working with schools and groups that can bring groups of young people to the event. If you work within such a school or group and can bring a group of young people, please contact gary@lifeskillsforchildren.co.uk or michelle@reactiv8.org.uk
Maybe you know some influential people who are local or national heroes from the world of sport, TV, music. The more influential people we have at the events the more powerful the message.
Personal Safety Seminar for Adults
THANK YOU for taking the time to read this important email. I would like to take this opportunity to invite you, your friends and colleagues to a very popular personal safety and awareness seminar that is being run on Wednesday 30th November at the Home Retail Group HQ in CMK. The seminar has been successfully delivered to over 15,000 people and is guaranteed to increase your personal safety and confidence. For those of you with no prior experience - DON'T WORRY - A majority of the seminar content is non-physical and designed for beginners. The content is regularly taught to Police and Military personnel.
For further information on this event please click here or visit www.cpdtrainingco.com
Weekly classes visit: www.garypayne.net
JUST 7 DAYS TO GO
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