Workshop Description
Learn to help youth answer the question, “Why try in life?” This workshop walks participants through several practical methods to teach emotional intelligence and important life skills such as:
· anger management
· problem solving
· overcoming peer pressure
· following laws and rules
· building support systems
· having a vision of their future

Focus on a strength-based approach to helping youth overcome their challenges using multiple-intelligence methods emphasizing the youths’ learning styles, including visual analogies, music and hands-on activities.

Learning Objectives

• Discover how to empower youth to overcome poverty, violence and failure.
• Learn how to teach youth to take the challenges they face in live and channel them in a positive direction.
• Focus on how to help youth build a positive support system.
• Learn how to help youth identify the strengths they have and develop their own potential.

About the Presenter

Christian Moore, LCSW, is the author of the WhyTry Program, now in use in 3,000 schools throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. He has years of experience working with at-risk youth, including work as a school social worker at an alternative high school and as a youth outpatient therapist at a community mental health agency specializing in adolescents with conduct disorder and learning disabilities. As the founder of WhyTry, he is a sought-after presenter and has given hundreds of keynote addresses, speeches and workshops at conferences across the United States.

Schedule: Full-day training; 0.6 CEUs available to attendees

Cost: $2,500