Welcome! 

You are here, because you want to learn on what amazing things teenage hero*ines achieve today.

You are here to learn how young people in your country can get activated to do like them.

You are here to learn how you can make that happen.

This is not a small thing.

And you want something solid.

So let’s not hurry.

This is a workshop.

If you attended it in person you would expect it to last a full day. And you’d be fine with that. You would expect nothing less, since anything less cannot really provide you something solid. Anything less would not provide time and opportunity for reflection and questions and really good answers. Guidance on what steps to take.

So, don’t get distracted or think this can get done in 2 hours just because it’s online. Also, don’t think that it will get boring. NO WAY. A 2 or 3 hour Harry Potter or Lord Of The Rings movie doesn’t get boring. Even watching an amazing 10 part series doesn’t get boring. It may get exhausting because you’re looking a long time at a screen. But it’s also exhausting to be with 10 people in a room for 1 or 2 days. 

So, just accept that you are working. You are climbing a ladder to a new level. And I assure you, this IS an upgrade.  

Already by the end of PAGE 1 your worldview will have changed, and you will have a strong IDEA of the powers of youth and of you to evoke remarkable changes, also in your town and region. And 20 pages later, by the end of Phase 1 … wow, beyond words.

Further, through Phases 2, 3, 4, you will have so many ideas that your mental body no longer doubts but it feels real. Finally, in Phase 5, through practical exercises your emotional and physical bodies will integrate the experience. 

You can be a total newbie, and it will work. It’s simple, you will be doing what KIDS ARE DOING, with tremendous impact, but you have to walk through the process of discovery, the reflection and the experience.

This experience – including your doubts and insecurities, maybe even fears, that will appear in the process are *important part*. You can only feel insecure, because it is NEW so you cannot feel sure. A few minutes later, you will find that many doubts and fears are absolutely ridiculous … often at the end of a page when reading COMMENTS on particular issues discovered on the page, for example “activities at school”, your doubts will *pooff* disappear because our explanations make you realize that it is all common sense … that you’ve seen it work in the stories, you’ve seen it work in the world, you know there exist kind people that will love this. 

This process is experienced as remarkably intense and enlightening and invigorating for many people !!

Some decide to take time to bathe in the feeling, and digest it. And to do only one page per day, because the hero*ines are so lovely, so awesome, that it would be a shame to hurry through stories.

AS YL COACH,

these stories are your #1 instrument. Each represents a solution. Each represents inspiration. Each comes with vivid imagery, videos, actions. In so many forms that you have favorites for everybody. Gentle, flamboyant, short- and long-term, FUNdraising, hands in the dirt, with animals, with kids, making uplifting music or positive news media that reach many. You’ll have favorites for everybody. But only if you know them all.

To know them all, you need to experience them in memorable form. Not in text like a phone book. But in real photos and story, or better – in videos – so you can see the hero*ines, hear the hero*ines, their power, their love, their passion … because it is these that MAKE hero*ines different from others, that make them so inspirational … it makes that THEY HAVE THE HEART to DO something.

They love children and nature so much that they act. 

They have the courage to act.

They know solutions, they have vision, so they act.

They feeeel strongly, which is the spark that makes them jump up, and that fuels them to keep going.

It is a matter of SPIRIT.

And this SPIRIT is what makes them in-spirat-ional. This Spirit is transferred to audiences and what makes kids join them. In Craig’s case, kids at 20,000 schools. This Spirit is what will awaken in you as you see, listen to and FEEL these hero*ines. It will make their energy activate keys on your inner piano. It will awaken your Inner Hero*ine, in your own way, intro- or extrovert, gentle or savage. This Spirit will dance in you as you meet other people and groups of students. This Spirit you will raise in the room through their stories, by showing their videos and music, by sharing some personal anecdotes and news on hero*ines you love best and follow online. This Spirit transfer is what YOU will make happen. 

This is no small thing. 

This is what no one but a handful of hero*ines achieves.

This is what makes YL special. This is what makes us achieve.

This is what makes YL Coaches and YL Warriors. SPECIAL.

Unique. Well equipped. Backed by a global tribe of hero*ines.

And in DEMAND. Because this is precisely what society yearns for.

Not protests but projects. Not voting and waiting, but implementing solutions that change lives and land. Not revolution but evolution. Changing from incompetent, impotent voters hiding behind experts to Able Active Caring Citizens implementing humanity’s finest solutions at local level. This is what YL makes possible. It’s difficult for adults. It’s what YOUTH are made for, by growing up with it from age 8 to 18 in their forming years, with macro community of 100s at school and the liberty to move around freely. 

This is what the Crash Course enables you to do. 

IF YOU DO IT RIGHT. If you know the stories, the music, the action options. You need not remember them ALL. everybody will remember some. And that’s fine. And you’ll know where to find more.

Like with a new sport where new balls and bats feel awkward in your hand, you are to follow your coach’s guidance and practice the moves. You watch the superstars. You won’t do like them, but that’s not required. You can still play the sport, have fun, assist and score goals, win and teach others. You won’t score 500,000 books but 1,000 and that’s a new children’s library in a desolate place changing the lives of kids. You won’t found a school at age 9 and have 6,000 students by age 21, but you can teach peers what you have learned. And that is awesome. And youth joining YL will have over 400 actions to choose from. And you as YL COACH show them this new world of opportunities. They shall become able to self-organize with their friends and our global Tribe. If you are there to help on demand, the better.  

This said, Phases 1-5 can take you a week. Or 2. Or a month. And that’s okay. You do it at YOUR PACE. Because it’s all about SPIRIT.

PHASE 1 is a MUST for all humans on the planet today, really. So make sure you definitely complete this one. The rest is bonus for going big. You can decide whether you continue rightaway or not. But do PHASE 1 to the fullest. You will emerge a different person with incredible options for actions that shape the future of entire regions. And THAT, my friend, is exactly what the world needs, what your heart sings for and what no one has. And you will.

So TAKE YOUR TIME. 

This is a big and beautiful step for you, and it will truly be as enjoyable as a Harry Potter or Lord Of The Rings novel or movie. So celebrate it. Give it your full attention. First times are magic.

YL stands for amazing hero*ines and geniuses. 

We give humanity’s finest to young people. They deserve nothing less.

Anything less will make them underperform and FAIL to save Life on Earth. 

Hence, we want YL Coaches to be well qualified in stories, tools and guidance. Dont you agree?

The Crash Course delivers all the Essentials of Youth Leadership and YL.

They form a foundation of common knowledge, instrumentarium, stories and Spirit among YL Coaches, Warriors, LearnSpace hosts and Project Partners.

When you meet a YL Coach on the world map you know you share this amazing foundation of spirit, tools, skills and vision … it is as beautiful as meeting Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings fans … it transports you into a shared parallel plane of existence … except for that the YL plane of existence is for real right here. You SEE it in shining teen hero*ines doing awesome stuff with crazy fun. It’s a GOOD LIFE!

You will have many aha and oho moments. Some aspects may not click with you. For example, the hip hop music doesn’t ring a bell with many Indian youth and adults. That’s okay. But still Indian YL Coaches must KNOW the music pieces in YL. And together we may create something attuned to the Indian Spirit. And you … you are to have experienced all these videos, all the music, all the comments. And you are to do all the Reflections, write down your answers because

– it helps you remember

– it helps you compare and align with your own experiences at school, in town, in life, with friends

– it helps us at YL learn from how you experience these stories and methods, how they work for different people in different parts of the world.

WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER, alright? You do this online, but we DO have a bond with you. And you can talk to us. But to make things easier, faster, efficient, solid, let’s only *talk* about the most important and tick off other things with your reflection and report documents. IT WORKS!

It will give you CONFIDENCE that you are on track and gaining all the information that we consider important for you to be well equipped. So that you will minimize awkward moments when you speak to others, to youth groups, or network with allies, schools, mayors … 

So, as YL Coach you are to meticulously follow the steps. You’ll read a few academic comments on the big picture of our mission… You need not remember these by heart. The most important ones will be repeated, that’s how you’ll notice and remember. Once you get bored of it, you know you have understood. 🙂 

And you’ll be certified as YL Coach, with United Nations University status. 

KNOW THIS :

As YL Coach, you will only be among truly caring people.

Because lukewarm people or those hunting diploma for their CV do NOT HELP YOUNG PEOPLE and POSITIVE CHANGE. The more there are the more USELESS the community becomes. Then, we might as wenn NOT DO IT.

Hence, in your interest, and your heart’s aspirations for kids and Life on Earth,

We will not certify people that are too lazy, too lofty or too ambitious to meticulously follow the steps into the magnificent world of Youth Leadership and YL that is beyond awesome than anything what’s happening in your schools and towns.

like a Safari Tour

or rather like watching Harry Potter

like watching Lord Of The Rings

FOR REAL

to see youth rock enormous projects you never considered possible

and it’s been happening on this planet for many years already

how awesome is that?

Such amazing hero*ine stories

and why haven’t you heard of it? 

isn’t it awesome that you do, now?

it’s in thousands of schools already

and what if this happens everywhere?

what will the world be like – NOW and in the FUTURE?

what will your daily life be like with such changemaker crews all over town?

what if you become part in spreading the message, see such youth crews grow up and support them?

what will they be like as adult citizens?

These thoughts happen : 

• what amazing young hero*ines
• how shall I ever be able to do that? *
• youth in my sleepy town … how could they ever pull this off? **
• my own kids don’t give a damn, omg ***

Don’t let these disturb your experience. Don’t push them away. They are part of your process.

1. watch the thoughts appears
2. think, weigh them, look at them from different angles
3. put your phantom fantasies in their place
4. trust that most doubts = assumptions based on lack of insight and experience will dissolve as you NEWBIE get to understand what hero*ines world is really like
5. we add reflection questions

Here’s what you realize

* you are not supposed to. you are a coach. you show the stories to inspire others to discover the power of youth, their own, and follow their own passion; sports, music and arts teachers don’t need to be world class athletes

** they don’t have to, they can start small, and we propose 4 actions, easy to advanced, based on each hero*ine’s initiative to start on that path, with immediate considerable impact. look, showing you “shy, tiny kids doing an x-mas cookie sale” would be useless. that’s not hero*ines, not changemaking, no role models. we show you the epic badasses – LIKE YOU DO in music and sports. it’s not like watching sports and music stars *frightened kids* from doing sport and music. on the contrary! by watching NBA basketball, european kids found their passion, their benchmarks and goals and today play in the NBA. that wouldn’t have happened, if they had only seen some drunkards at the local football turf. there’s no SPIRIT, no in-SPIRAT-ion. meanwhile, some of the youth hanging out in your town sweat and perform incredible stunts in sports halls – when you don’t see them. also, how could they be awesome, since no adult around them is awesome, and no one gave them relevant action opportunities, moves to try? we’ll show you stories of sleepy town students that got their whole town running and move mountains. and your role will be to show sleepy city youth what their peers are rocking, with a badass grin challenging them wannabe coolios to #bemoreawesome BEST AGE is 10 to 14 when kids are still idealistic + shamelessly passionate + can move around in town; we focus on age 8 to 18

*** your kids are not all kids. as you can tell from the hero*ine stories … often they just act alone or in small groups and move mountains! it’s just like any sport or music – not everybody is into making changemaking their sport, but most respect the athletes that do, and they’ll cheer them on and buy lemonAID for donations, join activities and more on occasion; and they’ll elect them into decision-making positions, because they know they are awesome, honorable able, active, caring folks; and that’s what we want

You see, your annoying doubts are part of the learning process and your own realization and conviction that it’s all common sense. And the doubts were really stupid questions. But it’s good you asked them. You shift perspective from being small, insecure, insignificant, incompetent … to being on top of it.

Simply observe them. do NOT start discussions. We don’t permit discussion in Group Crash Course (or in sports and music class and on outdoor hikes), but we tell them TRUST THE PROCESS, DO THE ACTIVITIES and you’ll see, by the end it’s fun and you score goals and the mountain view is AWESOME.

We’ll bust your phantom worries and cleanse your mind of cobweb fears by the end of page 1 and throughout the course. Others have testified how their mental storm took on abusive proportions and – puff – went off in smoke at the end of the page and their heart and vision shone with a big wide smile, LOVING IT. Trust the process. #bemoreawesome

If questions and doubts attack you real bad, simply imagine you are in a group setting where you cannot get up and bellow out all your thoughts and emotions, such as

• in a Group Crash Course
• watching a Harry Potter movie
• on a safari tour

You can’t and don’t want to ask all sorts of stupid questions, fears, analysis, assumptions on hunting techniques, evil poachers, past colonialism, future planetary catastrophe, what your neighbors think about you. 

What you want is to keep watching and enjoy the magnificent SCENERY, watch for colorful beasts and marvel! Trust your Driver. 

DURING GROUP CRASH COURSE PHASE 1, what matters most is the NEW SPIRIT. 

Phase s 2-5 show you steps,. tricks, tactics, allies, secrets of success, in theory and practice. 

RIGHT NOW, ENJOY THE JOURNEY and get to know the landscapes and characters of our real world Hogwarts school of Magic and Middle Earth. 

As YL Coach, think of yourself as a guide at a super creative Music Festival.

Metalheads, families, hippies appear. You receive them at the welcome desk, and ask they check in you show them the map and point out …

“There’s the stages for heavy metal, techno dancefloors, the medieval folk area with bow shooting, fire show and kids tournament. Yea, you all wanna check that out. There’s a lake for swimming, from 7 to 8 in the morning you get free pancake breakfast at Alice’s Restaurant on the hill over there, free drinks if you wear face paint, and tomorrow evening play the loudest band in the world, Motörhead, if you dare …”

Easy. AND

You can go to a school and give a presentation on this fascinating multi-faceted festival using photos, film clips and music. And tell them of special options for youth to volunteer, to get creative, to play on stages etc. We use this trick to make it even better: teachers give a homework : each students gets one band or location to study at home, and present to the group in the next lesson with comments on what’s magic about it. And you are there to respond to students’ questions. You might even be the teacher, or one of the students. Or a parent. We also join school classes via video. And might bring a band member (hero*ine) along. 

“One of the most energized lessons of my career. Even the most silent ones had something to say. students are inspired and want to get involved. This is what school should always be like,” is what teachers say … and you experience it, too.

SIMPLE. You just gotta know your festival ground, stories and videos. You must have heard the music, too. And enjoy it.

You could do the same for Olympic Games. Or a Gaming World Cup. Or a Maker Fest. Or Hogwarts School of Magic (that’s what YL is, FOR REAL), right? Even if you don’t know Harry Potter, yet, you know you can acquire that knowledge. That’s basically what YL Coaches do.

As a YL Coach, you know plenty of

• hero*ine stories
• action opportunities
• tools + tricks
• partners + coaches
• roles + benefits
• support

and where to find them. Like at a year-round Changemaker Festival.

That’s why in Phase 1 all you do is get to know STORIES of HERO*INES.

You are not expected to DO anything with it now. Unless we tell you to. And yes, we’ll wield some quick magic tricks together along the way. And at the end.

“No worries, Ron, you cannot fail. As your sports coaches, we know, because we are your sports coach and we see you got arms, legs, a mouth and a Heart.”

• is to open your eyes to the phenomenon of Youth Leadership
• to comprehend essentials of Youth Leadership and secrets of success
• to open your VISION to boosting youth leadership, globally and locally
• to become aware of your many options and helpers to do so in the YL Tribe and beyond

We ask you questions for reflection to internalize what you see, compare it what you know from your life. This helps you detect potentials and allies. 

We finish with swift practical acitivities that take only seconds or minutes, and we list Phase 5 Actions that you might feel inspired to do right away, and you can, depending on your environment. 

is for you to be able to

• spread the news and amazing stories,
• in chats, on media,
• guide Phase 1 at schools
• support hero*ines and local youth teams
• learn more on-the go via YL social media 
• make swift contributions

You can do this already after Phase 1.

You learn advanced skills in Phases 2-5.

As YL Coach, you are not meant to do projects. That’s what YOUTH do. It’s Youth Leadership 🙂

Your role is simply to open people’s eyes and show the tools, partners and actions available to create a world of awesome. This role is urgently needed and highly welcomed in many spheres of society. We make it super simple, so everybody can do it, with quick results.

• As Adult, you can organize activities as member of the YL Boost Club
• As Youth, you can organize plenty of actions, also at school, with the #BeMoreAwesome program for youth age 8-18

You’ll find out more at the end of Phase 1.

The power of Group Crash Courses IS this complete IMMERSION. It makes people’s hero*ines come out and interact and form a bond an alliance in the group with grand epic vision and determination to rock great stuff without further ado. 

Hence, also for Online Crash Courses we first recommended to shut the door and FULLY IMMERSE YOURSELF for up to half a day. Because like Harry Potter movies, it gets you into an ambience, a new worldview, you feel the SPIRIT, and this is precisely what this upgrade is about.

BUT

We then found that “enlightenment” also happens to people who view page 1, sleep, go to work, get home, view page 2, and stretch the whole experience over 1 or even 2 weeks. 

IT’S DIFFERENT FOR EVERYBODY, depending on people’s attention span and love & hate relationship with computer screens, so … follow your flow.

YOU CAN RETURN ANY TIME, since your Reflections are kept in your WORD DOCs. We don’t use forms, nothing gets lost.

Just one tiny Note : We have a Planet to save and 1 billion youth suffer from idiot pandemic management, so there’s many people that would very much appreciate that you turn up with your magic wands tomorrow. Or last year. Or 10 years ago.

Also, the PANDEMIC is an EXCELLENT TIME WINDOW

• for youth off their hyper busy schedules, to do their YL Warrior upgrade
• to reach via media, schools, libraries etc
• to reach into families
• everybody’s on pause, idling and re-thinking and in need of GOOD stuff

Seize the opportunity! #bemoreawesome

Hero*ine Stories

are your most important tool to inspire + empower + involve

since each represents a model solution and initiative that others can support, join or replicate / copy-paste in their home region. You’ve seen Greta’s “Action Guide” – “on fridays, make a colorful placard, walk out of school and sit down at parliament” – and millions applied it. If she had only spoken at a mic, no one would have known what to do and sat at home, like in the past. Imagine this for hero*ines with HIGH IMPACT PROJECTS without need for national government. That is what YL Stories truly represent, since they come with Action Guides, speakers and more 

• Stories come to life with videos, music, anecdotes and latest news
• Plus action opportunities
• YL’s core line-up of 100 hero*ines comes with 400 proposed actions
• and there’s many additional teaching tools and action programs

In this course, we show you a hand-picked selection of HIGH IMPACT HERO*INES

• to change your worldview of youth power, of your power, of school power, of our future

{ that is the most important thing !! It ignites vision and will in youth to do like them }

• the scope of hero*ines provides you with causes + activities for everybody

{ this makes all the difference !! It appeals to all character types of students and adults }

• immediate action opportunities, YL Tribe and programs enable self-organized follow-up

{ this is what you and people need; there’s no awkward “great, you want to take action, but I gotta go now” }

THIS IS THE UNIQUE YL SIGNATURE and your amazing Holy Grail to enjoy and share with the people

On this tour you get a taste what it’s like to LIVE IT.

The Hero*ine Stories are your most important tool

• hence you want to know them
• to understand what makes them special
• to memorize them

and the best way is > to experience them to the max

in story, big picture, video + music. That’s what the tour is about.

Further, to deepen your read, knowledge and memorization of hero*ines, we’ll give you a helpful tool at the end of each page to look at the hero*ine from different angles and notice their particularities, which will sharpen your sense for who needs to hear this story, and how they can benefit of it. Remember your role as Festival Guide 🙂

“All honorable people belong to the same Tribe.” – Tubulls, Nupa Tatanka

YL unites changemakers, coaches, newbies, youth team, teachers, citizens form all walks of life on Earth under one banner to work together. Towards the end of Phase 1, we give you impression of

• who’s on board
• how we organize it
• how it enriches life 

You shall know this already now as you explore the stories and dream of activating youth, schools and shape the future of entire regions. Because it’s what our hero*ine friends do, and we do it together.

You were alone, you are no longer. DREAM BIG. You and all the folks you activate have access to today’s Gandhis and Einsteins, for real-time meetings and year-round action.

 You’ll see what kids rock and you’ll learn that they can run with the grand changemakers of our time and implement their solutions everywhere. It’s awesome, and that’s why you see people beaming in all those photos 🙂

+ YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Youth, teachers, parents, organizations, councillors etc are not alone. We provide plenty of resources, activities, partners, support and benefits – and this is MIGHTY important to get started with flying banners, join rolling projects, surf on the inspiration of video meets and more. 

+ YOU CAN PROVIDE ALL THIS BLISS to inspired youth, teachers etc.

That is an extremely fulfilling and rewarding experience.

YL programs, partners, tribe, tools, resources

are shown in brief, for an overview and feeling of “wow, we can do all that stuff together!” and more deeply explored, in practice in Phases 2, 3, 4 and 5. 

Our goal with Phase 1 is to open your vision, knowing there’s easy awesomeness available and where to find it, so that you – and all youth and adults you meet can decide whether they want to create a GOOD world or not. In the end, it’s their CHOICE.

We have made OUR CHOICE.

Here comes something that’s mighty important in group crash courses.

You will be guiding group courses, so you need to know this.

In groups, or school classes, young people or adults are not used to express their passion, heartfelt feelings, tears, passion, fierce determination. They control them, discipline is the word. The setting at school usually is authoritarian. There may be reasons, but they don’t help us with activating youth leadership. Authority and lack of feeling has failed to spark hero*ism for the past 70 years. And if we now want to spark active youth / citizens, it will not be from reason … appeals to reason have been failing for 40 years. It is from love, feelings of injustice, outrage and passion. Those are feelings that made youth get up take action and soon they got called hero*ines.

Hence, in the Crash Course, our GOAL is to permit participants to feel their own Inner Hero*ine awaken.  For this we need time, patience and diversity of feelings, causes and activities, because all youth and adults are different. Some are calm, some are bold, some eloquent speakers, others tireless planters, others nerdy builders or filmmakers. We need them all. We need to appeal to them all. Each shall be able to FEEL their vibe and be respected and follow their own intuition to find their cause, passion and entryway to taking action.

They are not used to this. Hence, we want to warm them up to permit their own feelings to happen. We want to encourage them to TRUST !!!!! their own passion, vision, ideas, decisions.

They are not used ot DREAM BIG. They are told to stop daydreaming and focus on real things. But then, nothing ever gets better. Because the idea for a better neighborhood full of community trees for everyone to feed on starts with a vision, with a dream. So, we want to encourage them to dream wildly. To aim for the stars and then their arrow will land somewhere in between. Aim to feed 1 million people, end up feeding 500,000, or 10,000. that 10,000x more than the non-dreamers.

Many young and adult hero*ines have been called CRAZY by their peers. Well, to us hero*ines, the others are BORING. Because they are. You’ll hear it from someone during the Crash Course, and it will make you laugh and it will make you entirely agree – “Stop being boring, start being awesome!”. Our name is our program #bemoreawesome

You will hear kids relate to HARRY POTTER. And that’s for goooood reason. sorry for the people that cannot relate to finding HP magical… it is for many and it speaks to important hero*ine archetypes that are in many youth and adults. Hence, we use them in YL. We also refer to Lord Of The Rings, which has other important archetypes that many relate to in their feelings. And now we will introduce you to a real Dumbledore, a real Galadriel, a shaman … and while inhabitants of empire cities will call that hocuspocus, we respond “yo, your super smart unsustainable empire with 30% mental health problems, people don’t even know how to feed themselves without getting sick, how to live lovely companionships, to enjoy sex, to know sensuality, to love children … you know super well how the Living Universe functions…” Hahaha. At YL, we are planetarian and omni-cultural, we know the treasures and realms of all.

Anyway, from these ‘crazy’ realms we have a messenger here who perfectly tells how to approach a shamanic journey “workshop” … and what she says perfectly relates to approaching the YL Crash Course. Translate what she says about the shamanic drumming journey to your field of youth leadership:

in this visible culture, people think they must see things when they journey
= in this smartass culture, people think they must be eloquent speakers to make positive changes

YOU GET IT, RIGHT? So many advocates, protesters and nothing happens. But you’ll see hero*ines that don’t speak, they DO, they raise tons of money, plant tons of trees, change lives and land …

if I had given up just because I didn’t see things on my journeys …
= if I had given up, just because I’m not an eloquent speaker like Xiuhtezcatl or Greta or MLK …

we are told not to daydream, to stay real
= … you know what this means

am I making this up?, we do not trust our senses and feelings 
= am I crazy, can this ever work, why and how should simple me be meant to do great things?

when my left brain says “you are making this up”, I say “you’re right”, and I keep going
= when doubt comes, let it pass like a cloud, laugh and keep doing

Shamanism is not about dogma and belief systems, that someone else tells you what’s right or wrong. Shamanism is about “direct revelation” – you yourself get to know what’s right or wrong. And you get what’s perfect for this morning. Tomorrow, you’ll know what’s perfect tomorrow, because weather and situations change. You get it? This is the confidence in themselves that young changemakers HAVE and that non-changemakers lack. But they can awaken it, since 

you are not learning anything new. You are remembering what you already had as children
= on the Crash Course you will hear “the world’s smartest kid” explain to you that childishness is about being boundlessly creative, imaginative, that the idea of hopelessness doesn’t exist and more

this practice is proven over 100,000 years and it is assessed by “does it work and help?”

= you see this mind-, feel- and do-set in young hero*ines. This may yet be unknown to you, and this is precisely why we show you / give you personal encounters with many different young hero*ines because this is how you experience how they *tick*, you get to feel their Operating System, and as you feel it, this Operating System awakens in you.

you need to have a little patience, because you need to find your own senses
= you need to have a little patience, because you are used to keep your dreaming, aspirations, passions, tears and roar shut

shaman being asked how he like the movie at the cinema, responded “my movies are so much better”
= watching Kardassians, football, Netflix murder BS, my own adventures are so much better and they are FOR REAL

I have healed so much and helped so many others; if I had given up so many years ago, just because I didn’t see stuff
= if I had given up decades ago, just because people (idiot losers) told me not to dream big and feel my love and cry …

these antenna used to be shut down, because I had experienced a lot of trauma in my life and so have many others
= one’s feelings of inner No!, my outrage, my love, enthusiasm, grandeur got shut down, also violently by biological family members and … “teachers”

You see (see or feel or know … 😉 … these are profound truths and matters, and one doesn’t hear this from any “normal world expert” changemaker. Sandra just rolls it out one after the other with memorable anecdotes for you to empathise, feel it and remember it … and it perfectly translates to youth leadership.

You can tell that this is a very strong reminder for both students and teachers that in order to make positive change and achieve their dreams for their own lives, for people and planet, the future, they need to be different, they need to dare, to be sovereign, to be free, they need to FEEL, they need to HEAL and SHED chains that got put onto them.

They can return to SWITCH to be silent in ordinary subjects as they are used to , but now in the Crash Course they shall NOT be as they are used to in classroom setting. You can tell how this HELPS students and teachers lighten up and agree to be wild and play circus during this Course, even if they sit in class. You may actually encourage or ORDER to change the conventional setting of chairs and desks, to break their habit, you can make them sit in a circle, also on the floor, or on the lawn as they take turns presenting hero*ines to the group, and stand up and sit on desks to watch films, in order to energize the session.

These are extremely important aspects of LIBERATION for your young or adult audience. Hence, your success is boosted by creating an ambience, a safe space and a flair of adventure and dreaming and daring in your Crash Course space. You will later learn of YL posters and music that help awaken this feeling and silence unnecessary brain clatter thinking.

So, for you to memorize this, meet Sandra. This is 9 minutes and 2 seconds from 6min58 to 16min00 of her introduction.

Sit back, listen, feel her confidence. She has zero doubt, because she has experienced it.

You as YL Coach shall have such confidence and pass on a similar message to your newbie Gryffindore students of magic … based on your confidence that you have experienced it. It’s what this course guides you to.

Please write her final words from 15min54 to 16min00 on a piece of paper and lay it on your computer as a guiding star for the rest of this course. Please take a photo of it and attach it to your Reflection document. Thank you. #bemoreawesome

I fall asleep in my own tears
I cry for the world, for everyone
And I build a boat to float in
I’m floating away

I can’t recall last time I opened my eyes to see the world as beautiful
And I built a cage to hide in
I’m hiding, I’m trying to battle the night

Let love conquer your mind
Warrior, warrior
Just reach out for the light
Warrior, warrior
I am a warrior-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior
I am a warrior-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior of love

I stand behind the wall of people and thoughts, mind controlling
And I hold a sword to guide me
I’m fighting my way

I can’t recall last time I opened my eyes to see the world as beautiful
And I built a cage to hide in
I’m hiding, I’m trying to battle the night

Let love conquer your mind
Warrior, warrior
Just reach out for the light
Warrior, warrior
I am a warrior-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior
I am a warrior-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior of love!

Underneath darkened sky
There’s a light kept alive

Let love conquer your mind
Warrior, warrior
Just reach out for the light
Warrior, warrior
I am a warrior-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior
I am a warrior-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior of love
Warrior of love!
Warrior of love!

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The two fans on the road to a concert in AURORA’s home town of Bergen got invited for an interview.

They knew nothing of this surprise concert for them. 

It was followed by many heartfelt hugs and words.

“Your music helped my through very dark times.” 

“Yes, this is why I make it – for you, my dear ones.”

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AURORA will come pick you up from the most desolate places.

Aurora wrote this song during the blood moon in 2014 (at age 18). 

“I just imagined the moon turning all the people around the world into wild animals, running away from all the rules, all the materialism and technology. Just being a part of nature again, running free.”

She added:

The song is about having the animal instinct inside you come to life. Running with them, joining them – the instinct taking over, giving you freedom and making you forget about your human self and all things we humans keep around us in the modern society.

I think humans need to let go a bit more, shake their bodies more often, like the animals do … It’s a beautiful thing really.

Sometimes when you look at the world, and you see what we’ve done to it, the way many of us hurt the world we live in, innocent animals, even our own kind! And that kind of makes you want to follow the wolves instead. At least for one night.

Pay attention to what she does in the final second.