EMERGING LEADERS
VIRTUAL SUMMER DAY ACADEMY

LDI’s 3-week Virtual Emerging Leaders Summer Day Academy provides a creative and practical bridge to finding meaningful work and developing courageous self-expression for bright students with learning disabilities (LD), ADHD, and high functioning autism.

DATE:

JUNE 8-26

LOCATION:

VIRTUAL

AGES:

14-22

DAYS:

MONDAY-THURSDAY

HOURS:

9AM – 3PM MST

LDI’s Emerging Leaders Virtual Summer courses focus on developing kindness, compassion, and empathy to themselves, peers, and other adult relationships and building employability competency leading to meaningful work.

Kindness
Compassion
Empathy
Kindness
Compassion
Empathy

Developing Self-Awareness

  • Emotional self-awareness- ability to read/understand your emotions and recognize their impact on work performance and relationships.
  • Accurate self-assessment-ability to give realistic evaluations of personal strengths/limitations
  • Self-confidence- ability to have a positive, strong sense of one’s self-worth.

Developing Self-Management

  • Self-control-ability to keep disruptive emotions/impulses under control
  • Transparency-maintaining standards of personal honesty and integrity
  • Managing self/responsibilities
  • Adaptability- flexibility in adapting to changing situations, overcoming obstacles.

Social Awareness

  • Empathy-ability to understand others/take active interest in their concerns.
  • Organizational awareness- ability to read the hidden message of work life, build networks, and navigate social/workplace politics
  • Service orientation- ability to recognize and meet Customer or peers needs through trusting in the Multiple talents and perspectives of others
Employability
Employability

Develop Personal Profile

  • Careerscope vocational assessment
  • What are hard/soft and transferable skills
  • Writing and producing 30 second elevator speech video
  • Rehearsing and producing social etiquette video

Job Preparation

How to navigate online job search engines

  • Establish boundaries of search, previous experience required, location, work environment, compensation
  • Conducting employer research
  • Workplace observations

Job Exploration

Using information from personal profile and community experiences to identify a possible job that aligns with personal profile values, beliefs and skills with employer wants/needs

  • Introduce and practice common interview questions and answers
  • How to use relevant transferable skills to answer interviewer questions that are almost always asked
  • Rehearse with peers
  • Video with staff
  • Use interview rubric for feedback

The Mission of the Life Development Institute is to
Develop, Mentor, and Empower Individuals to Cultivate a Life Worth Living

Limited scholarships available. Deadline to apply is May 7, 2020.

1.5

Elective Credits Available

Tuition

$3500

EMERGING LEADERS

VIRTUAL SUMMER DAY ACADEMY

LDI’s Emerging Leaders Virtual Summer Day Academy is an innovative and unique approach to delivering an alternative summer experience to bright students with LD, ADHD and high functioning autism amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. The online program creates bridge that builds a foundation for our students to become emerging leaders, find meaningful work, and develop courageous self-expression. To request more information, please fill out our online form, and we will be in touch.

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