January 9th, 2014
Thursday 9 January 2014
New Year = New Me = New World
January 9th, 2014
Wednesday 8 January 2014
Challenge Day 1 - Morning
Sunday 5 January 2014
Get passionate about your purpose!
After yesterday's London Challenge, today presented a very different and thought provoking day.
This morning saw the group attend a very eye opening and motivating workshop delivered by Paul van Casteren. This was aimed at helping people identify their own strengths and values as well as encouraging people to think about their own reputations, the visions of their future and their own personal brand.
The day was broken up into group activites which encouraged us to talk to different people in the group. This helped us get to know eachother and ourselves better. It was really good to find out how other people percieve you and recieve feedback about yourself that you may not have known before. Most importantly for me the activites have helped me think differently about myself and they have helped me to identify what is important to me, what it is that I am good at and the way in which I want to use this information to direct my future. To quote Paul "get passionate about your purpose!"
This afternoon the group was presented with a challenge to construct an object made out of pre-cut wood. This was a really interesting activity and highlighted a lot of qualities in people as well as areas to work on for all involved. It really encouraged me to think about my own strenghts and weaknesses and this has helped me identify areas that I need to develop in order to become a better leader.
Tonight is Intercultural Evening where the group gets together and tells eachother about where they are from, their cultures and present typical food, drink and activites from their own countries. If it's anything like last night its gonna be a wild one!
Saturday 4 January 2014
Monopoly
Friday 3 January 2014
Here we go!
Thursday 28 November 2013
Welcome to this BLOG
What we would like you to do
The address for the blog is www.momleaders.blogspot.co.uk.
Instructions
- Setup an account at www.blogger.com
- Download the blogger app to your smart phone if you have one, otherwise contribute via your laptop
- Send your registered email to paul@momentumworld.org and he will make you an author - you will get an email from Paul
- Open this email. It will have a box which states accept invitation. Once you have accepted this response using your email address you will be able to add your own posts to the project blog.
There will be lots of help available if anyone is having difficultly creating a post. Feel free to email paul@momentumworld.org or amy@momentumworld at any time if you need help.
About Momentum
Our aims are:
- To inspire young people to expand their horizons and aspirations, deal successfully
- with transitions, and become ready for the world of work.
- To increase young people’s understanding of global issues.
- To encourage participation in social enterprise and community action projects (local, national and international).
- To cultivate an international network of motivated young people.
- To recognise, value and celebrate young people’s positive contributions to society.
- To add value to formal (school / university) education provision.
- To promote intercultural understanding.
Momentum offers:
- Film and media training for young people
- Film based documentary and heritage projects for schools.
- Staff training for teachers on creative use of video to support learning.
- Long term extracurricular social enterprise / community action projects for secondary schools.
- Student leadership development courses.
- Organisation of international projects, visits, exchanges and volunteering opportunities.
- International training courses for school / youth group project leaders.
- Professionalism and career skills workshops for sixth form and university students.
- International leadership courses for young adults.
- International consultancy (specialist strategic, project and events expertise for the education and youth sectors).
Momentum’s philosophy and approach
- Four cornerstones – education, empowerment, equal opportunity and participation.
- Partnerships focused on supporting, developing and rewarding young people.
- Longer term engagement, not one-off activities – building in follow-on opportunities to every project.
- A mixture of challenge and fun; effort rewarded with further opportunity.
- Use of technology, creativity and innovation as tools for learning
- Encouraging innovation by our staff, particularly in use of film and media.
- Inclusion, intercultural learning and intergenerational dialogue.