Youth (PDF)
The staff at Anima Leadership has deep roots in youth engagement and development. Fundamentally, we believe that society greatly underestimates young people and devalues their abilities and commitment. From our experience, young people are on the front lines, tackling issues like bullying, gang violence, racism, environmental degradation, drug addiction, eating disorders and self-mutilation. If they aren’t already engaged with the issues, they are eager to learn HOW to get involved. At Anima, we believe in nurturing and supporting the visions that young people carry to help make their world a better place. Our programs not only offer new knowledge and relevant skills, but have participants practice living leadership— where they step into positions of responsibility, power and decision-making during our trainings. We have developed a highly innovative leadership process, called the ALIVE Program for Youth, integrating social justice ideals with conflict transformation, equipping participants with skills to truly work across the differences that divide us. We set the bar of expectations high for participants - rarely are we disappointed, frequently we are amazed. Our leadership as well as anti-racism and equity trainings have been effective and successful in both national and international contexts.
Programs
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ALIVE Program for Youth
The Anima Leading with Integrity, Vision and Effectiveness (ALIVE) Program for Youth runs from 5-25 days in length and has been received with great acclaim in both national and international contexts.
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Train-the-Trainers for the ALIVE Youth Program
Due to the incredible success of our youth programmes nationally and internationally, we have developed a train-the-trainers module in the unique ALIVE© program methodology.
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Brown Book: Using Storytelling to Combat Racism
This award-winning program using storytelling to introduce educators to foundational equity and anti-racism concepts has been highly successful in many diverse national and international contexts over the last 5 years…
More about the Brown Book: Using Storytelling to Combat Racism
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Custom-designed Programs
Anima Leadership specializes in custom-designing programs to meet the specific needs of youth-based organizations.
See what Anima Leadership can offer youth-based organizations.
“Anima Leadership helped create and lead our Youth Leadership Summit in Holland for the last 2 years. With their extensive leadership expertise and experience with integration and anti-racism issues, they have been a backbone to the successful running of our programme and have made an essential contribution to the multicultural understanding in Dutch society at the moment. With the help of Anima Leadership, our hope is to develop this program in order for it to become an integral part of the Dutch education system.”
Anne Rein Muller, Chairperson United World College Committee of the Netherlands
