High School Workshops

Red Carpet Confidence

High School Workshop for Teen Girls

Objective:

This self-actualization course is an eye-opening workout for the spirit of teen girls. Red Carpet Confidence offers compelling exercises that allow teens to look into themselves instead of at themselves. They will connect to their magnificent selves so they walk the runway of life with complete personal acceptance and a bright future. Segments include confident body language, what to do about toxic relationships, boundaries and control, top visualization and de-stressing techniques, how to spot opportunity, planning the future and more. This workshops is red carpet treatment for enhancing confidence in teen girls.

General Information:

• All workshops are interactive, entertaining and motivating!
• Nothing is written in stone and anything can be tailored to suit your needs.

Length: ½ to full day

FEEDBACK
Students wrote:

"You made me feel like a somebody in this world."
"It was an unforgettable experience."
"I think it was really great to call you Monique like an equal to us."
"She was really helpful for finding who I really am."
"She has a real gift for teaching and speaking to us."
"This is a life changing experience."
"Your presentation was very exciting to me."
"You changed my life."
"I wish we could do this again next year."
"It really helped you look inside yourself."
"Monique was very good at giving us reasons to achieve things."
"As of today, I will respect myself more."

"One girl I work with who skips a lot and comes unprepared has begun to show up for all her classes and said she was going to try and make them every day. I even had girls from grade 9 &. 11 who had heard about the presentation ask why they were not included! They loved the goals cards too. I thank you!"
Norma MacInnis - Special Educational Assistant Sutton District High School

Leadership - from the inside out!

I believe that it is much easier to lead when youth first understand how to lead themselves. This workshop covers leadership from the inside-out.

1. Choose the 8 topics that appeal to you and e-mail them back. Be sure to list them in the order that you would like them delivered.
2. I will design a personalized, interactive leadership workshop that meets the needs of your school and it's students.

Choose topics in order of priority:

1. Ordinary to Extraordinary...Leading a Big Life
2. Inspiration and Influence.
3. How to open the Windows and Doors of Opportunity.
4. Presentation Skills - stand up and speak out
5. How to motivate the unmotivated!
6. Self-Esteem Essentials 101
7. Deal Breakers
8. Boundaries (the prisons you build yourself)
9. Control (what you can and can't control)
10. The Critical Thinker -problem solving/problem management.
11. Relationships - an RX for all personalities. (includes Conflict Busting phrases)
12. Communication - best practices
13. Body Talk - what yours is saying.
14. How to take back your power from stress and anxiety.
15. How to be Fearless
16. Goal Setters Success
17. Your Future ... 5 years from now

General Information
If your school is small, consider having another school join you. All workshops are interactive, entertaining and motivating!

Length: Full day workshop

FEEDBACK

"Monique presents an engaging workshop for students that is dynamic, reflective and outstanding! She confidently encourages one to stretch beyond their own world and reach out as leaders who can affect change for the better. Student reaction is overwhelmingly positive!"
Suzanne Roche - Superintendent of Education and Student Services, Durham Catholic District School Board

"Monique is incredibly enthusiastic and presents a great message about self confidence, respect, motivation, happiness with other topics woven within her presentation. It is tailored specifically for teenagers and it is interactive. I would definitely recommend Monique for a classroom session or in-service for leadership students."
Elaine Cole - Guidance Department, Port Perry High School

Co-op workshop

"Power tools for Getting and Keeping a Job."

Objective: To take all students to a higher state of empowerment and motivation through a series of activities that help them use fresh ideas and learn success strategies for getting and keeping a job.

Students learn:

• 5 compelling reasons to outwork everyone around you.
• What you can expect on the job.
• How to use problem solving and critical thinking techniques.
• Social skills from hand shaking to body language.
• How to present yourself so you impress your future employer.
• How to have a successful interview and win the job!

Length: ½ day workshop.

FEEDBACK

"Obviously you have spent considerable time and effort on this initiative and it has been well received. In my view, it is especially important that this program is rooted in first-hand experience, and that it gives kids the skills they need to achieve their full potential."
John O'Toole - MPP Durham Region Ontario

"The students were completely engaged and excited about your presentation."
Kit McAleese - Co-op teacher, Bowmanville High School

"Great message! I really liked the 1% idea because it makes it very possible as opposed to changing ones whole life."
Simon Walker - Co-op teacher, Bowmanville High School

"Amazing! I learned and thought about more things in the workshop than I had in the entire last year of high school."
Jessica Wemboldt - Barrie Learning Centre

Wise Guys Workshop

Objective

An interactive workshop experiment designed to encourage introspection in Grade 9 and 10 guys. They will be asked to evaluate (as a focus group) the 4 pillars of this workshop which were created to examine and address negative choices. The four segments are:

PRISONS...the ones you build yourself.
Some of us put up walls and boundaries that imprison us by not allowing us to live our lives to the fullest potential. Sometimes, we can buy into the label that we've been given:

• You are not good enough to succeed
• You are not cool enough to be with a beautiful girl
• You are not big enough to be a man

The Common Denominator - We're all in this together.
Every guy in the room has many things in common - gender, age, town/province/country, school, problems, interests...etc. While it may feel like we're different ... we're really not. Getting along with one another wins the everyday battles we face. Life isn't perfect, and fighting with each other doesn't make things better. Working together will increase odds.

The Strategic Thinker - Adversity equals results.
If you do well at this - you win big...sometimes more than can imagine! The only person who stands in the way of your dreams is yourself. Rollover and accept defeat or push back and give it everything you have.

The Future - A Guarantee.
Stay determined and outwork the guy next to you! If you have to think anyway...Think HUGE!

General Information:

• All workshops are interactive, entertaining and motivating!
• Nothing is written in stone and anything can be tailored to suit your needs.

Length: ½ day

FEEDBACK

The feedback I had from the students I saw was very positive. The Grade 10 boys enjoyed it and thought Brad was "cool." Some remarks were, "really got a lot out of it", "gave me a lot to think about." Overall it was a positive experience for many of our students and I thank you again.
Norma MacInnis - Special Educational Assistant Sutton District High School