Your Missing Piece? The Real You makes all

the difference

Morgan Rich Play Huge Coaching, LLC

www.playhuge.com

The moment

Overview

• Young People’s potential and challenges

• The YES Project

• The Real You• Know Yourself• Trust Yourself

• Your Real World

• Wrap up and a surprise

• What do you want to get from this session?

Your Outcomes

• Economic

• Environment

• Moral

The world today:Challenges

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein

Global Climate Change

Save the Planet

um. no.

economy.

yikes

kids better off?

Moral

BlagojevichDaschle

A RodEnron

Madoff

Clemens

Sam Adams

the other 103

First students

The Change Era

make a difference

role models...mentors...

um, anyone home?

corruption

failing relationships

Poor performance.

Dissatisfaction.

Things matter

but

more to it

It is there

Millions of voices...

“We want change.”

They know.

They sense it.

no words.

no clear explanation.

but they sense it

listen.

watch.

feel.

It is there.

But,what to do about it?

I want...change.

to make a difference.to share my gifts.

Meaning and Fulfillment.

desperate

Where do they go?

College.

looking for...

answers. direction. hope.

role modelsmentorsguides

ways to share their gifts.

Our work?

Cultivate it.

How?

Today.

Activity for Today

The

Young Enthusiastic Students

(YES)

Project

The YES ProjectA frame

OPERATER Organize and Plan Experience (be Realistic, be Accountable, call Time-out) Evaluate Repeat

from Be the OPERATER of your life Ralph

The pieces of the puzzle

Young People

Full of talent, passion, creativity

Future leaders

Help them remain optimistic

Cultivate their abilities

The moment

There is a piece missing

Attrition Rates

“I wish I had those 4 years back”

Harvard students...selling out

Teaching Professor

Stories

Cultivating The Real You

Define

Know Yourself

Trust Yourself

The Real You

The gnawing feeling

Your talents, passions, gifts

Your Stand(s)

Create your living legacy

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stumbled upon some truth when

he said "most people go to their graves with their music still inside them."

R I P

“He died with his music still inside him.”

My gift to the world never woke up.

Our work?

Listen.

Cultivate it.Wake it up!

Transition: Concept to reality

Know Yourself

• Personality and Brain Evaluations• VAK, 8 Intelligences, Myers Briggs

• Your Stand

• Ropes Course - Team Building

• Awaken their spirit

• Play Huge notebook

Know Yourself

•Open the door...• Encourage exploration• Share how you value it (and show it)• Provide examples

• The Theme of Orientation and Year One• Build a foundation

How to incorporate this into your program?

The YES Project

Your Program Objective Cultivate every students gift

Details 4 day Orientation & First semester class 2000 students in incoming class10 program leaders100 student leaders Faculty involvement (for classes)

The YES Project

Know Yourself Awaken their Real You Get students to connect with who they want to be Understand their gifts

How do you want your students to feel?

Focus on the Orientation program In 4 days how will you cultivate a connection to the Real You?

What I feel like saying...

How I want students to feel:Part of community

Supported/MentoredSafe, challenged, encouraged to risk...and fail

...and learnInformed about how to handle challenges

Uncomfortable

The noise that allowed him to leave

What do you feel like saying...

Going to camp

Marginalized

Revolutionary Road

The Hypnotist

Stories

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stumbled upon some truth when

he said "most people go to their graves with their music still inside them."

“He died with his music still inside him.”

If only I had the courage...

R I P

Trust Yourself• Structure

• Consistency - Maintain the Focus

• Everything Speaks

• Access to resources for ease of powerful expression

• Coaching

• Peer coaching

• Student Leaders

• Professional coaching

• Community

• Creating support among peers

• Revisit the Theme of Orientation and Year One

• Consistently build on the foundation

How do you honor sustainability?

Trust Yourself Want each student to believe in themselves Create supportive community

Honor Sustainability How do you make the connection last? How do you support the student who gets wooed by the big

financial offer? Design the courses and other ongoing projects

The YES Project

What I feel like saying...

How I honor sustainability:Establish OPERATERDecision making teamCreate Community

What do you feel like saying...

Loyola student - decision based on reality

Vanilla Bikes

How much do you compromise

Conscious Action

Stories

Into Reality How can you adapt your program? What did you discover that you can make happen in your world? I can make it happen: I need help making it happen:

You as OPERATER My commitment for this year is...

The YES Project

Stories

Wrap-up

The Real You

Cultivate Know Yourself

Establish Trust Yourself

Honor Sustainability

Surprise...

Modeling How to Discover the Real You

Step I - Imagining the Ideal Scenario (The YES Project) Introduce parameters Get to know your group

Step II - Your place (Know Yourself) Who you are & what you stand for Your gift to the world

Step III - Honoring Sustainability (Trust Yourself) Making it last Structures that would

Step IV - Applying it to your Life (Your Reality) How can these things happen in your world?

Morgan Rich Play Huge Coaching, LLC

mrich@playhuge.com

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