mentorship for boys
Strength is a unique personal development and group mentoring program designed for secondary school aged boys to understand their personal identity, purpose and help give direction for their life.
The STRENGTH program is about equipping adolescent men with the knowledge and skills to discover who they are and the person they want to become.
Overview
STRENGTH aims to address key issues faced by adolescent men such as interpersonal difficulties, anger and violence, pornography, bullying, and risk-taking behaviours. Given the influence of peer relationships in the developmental stage of adolescence, STRENGTH adopts peer mentoring and group-based activities to increase social belonging and to address sensitive topics in a non-judgemental space. The structure of STRENGTH enables organisations to differentiate the content based on the individual learning needs of the participating young men.
Enhancing self-confidence, problem-solving skills and social-emotional skills can help prevent mental health problems and increase overall resilience. The program reinforces that every person has unique strengths, qualities and skills, and has something valuable to contribute to the world. It encourages young men to find the strength and courage within them to accept themselves, celebrate diversity, form their own convictions, make healthy choices and live to their full potential.
Objectives:
Identify themselves as valuable with much to contribute.
Build confidence, self-awareness and courage.
Develop decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Understand they are able to have a positive influence in their world.
Identify personal desires to motivate them to set and achieve personal goals.
Key Outcomes
Sessions allow group members to participate in experiential and reflective activities, contribute to in depth discussions, and engage in social interactions with other participants and facilitators. It is important to reinforce the foundational concepts throughout the sessions to unveil the truth that each and everyone of us has intrinsic value and have the potential to live a meaningful and purpose-driven life.
All programs are grounded in expertise from psychology, youth work, education, and community development. It applies a behavioural framework to help young people understand how life experiences, thoughts, and emotions influence their actions. Participants gain practical tools to challenge negative thinking and build self-belief, resilience, and healthy decision-making.
program curriculum
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Students will gain an understanding of the concept of value, develop an awareness of one’s personal and intrinsic value and understand the value of self-care.
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Students will understand the distinction between comparison and inspiration, explore healthy and unhealthy friendships and discover the benefits of teamwork.
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Students will identify oneself as courageous, awareness of the negative impact of bullying and practice assertiveness.
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Students will recognise the value of developing resilience, build problem-focused and emotion focused coping skills and practice acceptance and letting go.
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Students will better able to identify and label emotions, learn healthy ways of managing anger and understand the difference between reacting and responding.
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Students will understand the importance of having respect for self and others, identify personal convictions and set healthy boundaries and distinguish between anger and violence.
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Students will gain understanding of the difference between healthy and unhealthy risk taking, consider the consequences of our decisions and recognise one’s own potential, individual skills and talents.
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Students will distinguish between values and goals, identify oneʼs personal values and passions and understand the steps involved in goal setting.
“I have worth”
“I have purpose”
“I have strength”
The focus for these sessions is for each girl to understand for themselves that they are valuable. Their uniqueness is something to celebrate and they have been wonderfully made.
These sessions explore the power of choice and the power that decisions have on shaping a person’s future. This is addressed through practical sessions about feelings, convictions, decision-making and problem-solving.
Purpose is examined through exploring personal hopes, dreams and desires. Goal setting, group discussions on potential and group activities, including a dream collage and deportment, are used to equip and build confidence to live out a purpose-filled, adventurous life.