A Promising Future offers engaging, stand-alone workshops as an extension of the invaluable content from our life-skills curriculum, The Diamond Standard. These workshops are designed specifically to create in-depth dialogue and relationship between participants and instructors. Your participants will become active agents in their own brain development and pathway to success.
We also offer a free Healthy Decision-Making Workshop for our school partners. Please contact us here if you are interested.
Taking Charge: Making Healthy Decisions for Your Life (90-120 minutes)
- Explore the process of decision making through interactive gameplay
- Learn & practice four easy steps of healthy decision-making
- Assess the impact of your decisions in 5 key areas of life
Executive skill focus: Critical thinking, thinking ahead and planning ahead
Social-emotional focus: Self-management, responsible decision making, and relationship skills
Reaching out: Understanding Suicide (120 minutes)
- Humanize the conversation of suicide and identify factors that contribute to suicidal ideation
- Explore how open dialogue, expressing empathy, a shift in mindset, and maintaining social connections can decrease the likelihood of suicide
- Learn tools, language, and resources to seek support for self or to be an effective support to a peer experiencing suicidal ideations
Executive skill focus: Empathy, problem-solving, and adjusting to new circumstances
Social-emotional focus: Social awareness, self-awareness, and self-managment
Know the Signs: Addressing Teen Dating Violence (120 minutes)
- Identify activities that are healthy or problematic in relationships
- Explore misconceptions about dating violence, healthy/unhealthy dating interactions,
personal boundaries, types of abuse and how remaining in an abusive relationship affects your well-being - Learn self-advocacy skills, language, and confidence to not be a bystander when you learn of or witness dating violence
Executive skill focus: Exercising good judgment, critical thinking, and empathy
Social-emotional focus: Social awareness, self-management, and relationship skills
Conquering Stress: Applying Healthy Strategies to Cope With Life (120 minutes)
- Identify the difference between stress and anxiety and how they show up
- Explore how developing healthy coping skills equips you to better navigate episodes
of stress or anxiety - Learn and apply support seeking, self-advocacy and self-regulation skills
Executive skill focus: Regulating behavior, flexible thinking, and exercising good judgment
Social-emotional focus: Self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making
Exploring Consent: Respecting Dignity as a Central Issue (120 minutes)
- Identify our opinions about sex & relationships through an interactive music-based game
- Learn Colorado laws of consent and how they are applied in scenario-based activities
- Explore situational awareness, how empathy and respecting dignity play a key role in consent and the identification of vulnerabilities, without blaming the victim
Executive skill focus: Controlling impulses, empathy, and exercising good judgment
Social-emotional focus: Relationship skills, responsible decision making, social awareness
Engineering Love: Designing Your Relationship Blueprint (120 minutes)
- Identify character traits as a starting point to identify healthy/unhealthy interactions
in relationships - Learn how intimacy and a healthy relationship foundation is formed through a
step-by-step process - Explore the importance of personal boundary setting, learn how to create them and live them out in daily life
Executive skill focus: Problem-solving, controlling impulses, and planning ahead
Social-emotional focus: Relationship skills, self-awareness, responsible decision making