CHOICE - Speaking Topics
Speaking Topics Workshop Titles
Leading by Example
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW: Leading by example is designed to educate, train and provide experiences that enhance leadership skills while providing opportunities for participants to develop lasting relationships among our young leaders. Its curriculum informs and stimulates leaders to solve the significant needs of the area, and motivates participants to help make a difference in the community and to instill that desire in others.
Encouraging leadership is critical to the success of any community. Changed Man Productions helps participants realize the positive impact they can have and provides them with skills and information to become more then just a product of their environment, it allows them to have a CHOICE!
OBJECTIVES:
- Help youth learn specific knowledge and skills related to leadership.
- Promote awareness, understanding, and tolerance of other people, cultures and societies.
- Involve young people in service to others, to their community, their country and their world.
- Facilitate self-reflection and processing of learning both individually and cooperatively.
- Involve youth in collaborative experiences, teamwork and networking with peers.
CHARACTER TRAITS:
Responsibility, Fairness, Dependability, and Courage.
THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Environments that encourage volunteer activities are critical to creating a commitment to service and community involvement that will remain with students for a lifetime.
Youth involvement can produce valuable benefits to local communities and enable young people to become proactive members of society. There is a strong correlation between youth efficacy, the personal ability to make a difference in solving problems in their community, and participation in school-based service.
The Truth About Drugs
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:
Education plays a vital role in preventing drug abuse. How to talk to youth about drugs is often puzzling or appears impossible. This is why, for over 20 years, the largest community-based drug education program, Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life, has been carried out worldwide. Based on the experience gained by Drug Free world, I can provide a real life drug education program, using practical tools that will allow students to easily learn current and factual information about the most used drugs.
OBJECTIVES:
- To learn and understanding the short and long term effects of drugs, such as:
- Alcohol
- Marijuana
- Inhalants
- Ecstacy
- Cocaine & Crack Cocaine
- Kiddie Cocaine (Ritalin)
- Crystal Meth & Methamphetamines
- Heroin
- LSD
- Oxycodone (Painkillers)
Become a product of CHOICE
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:
This workshop was created to help students dig deeper into their lives, evaluate their choices, and fulfill their dreams. We can no longer allow our students to blame others for their misfortunes, but if we empower them to become a product of CHOICE they will be able to create the life they want and deserve. CHOICE is an acronym for:
- Courage
- Habits
- Obstacles
- Imagine
- Character
- Evaluate
OBJECTIVES:
To have the courage to stand up for what’s right. Creating good habits. Creating a plan to overcome obstacles. Imagining the person you ought to be, and identifying the path it takes to be that person. Developing values and a personal mission statement. Evaluating your progress and being prepared to make the necessary changes to achieve your dreams.
Eric is a Youth Edutainer that...
- Works closely with youth event planners to make sure that his message fits well.
- Has a simple yet powerful message that "sticks" in the minds of youth and positively effects their behavior.
- Creates educational and entertaining experiences.
- Helps youth move to the next level of thinking.
- Has a conversational style that young people can relate to.
- Eric is an exceptional communicator that has an uncanny ability to make an immediate emotional and mental connection with young people.
